I was out there tonight. The moon is a beautiful awesome orange sliver. I tried to take photos but they just didn't come out right. I got many slivers LOL
What's the secret to shooting the moon?
I wish I knew.
At night, I can only get good photographs of 2 and 3 day old crescents (The one in the pic was 2 days). After that (like tonight) the moon gets too bright and I can't seem to get a good picture. Half moons, near full and full I can only photo during the day, dusk at the latest.
To get the moon like in those pictures above.
* - Cheap Tripod from Walmart
* - 2 second exposure time (Not all camera's can do this, if you can't try seeing if you have a night setting and use that). I actually take many pictures with different exposure times sometimes 1 second works, sometimes 4 seconds and sometime 2 does.
* - 6x zoom (I think the more zoom the better)
* - Use the timer (just the act of pressing the shutter button will shake the camera) * - Best time is about 45 minutes after sunset