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Old September 1st 07, 08:08 AM posted to rec.photo.film+labs
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Default Moon Photography

Hey everyone,

I've been doing the Photo thing for about a year. My dad gave me his
Nikon FG and I just started shooting, learned the basics pretty fast
and now I've been putting out some - not to be all ME ME ME ish -
stellar work.

I've slowly gotten more and more into Surrealism inspired by an
accidental 'tripped out' photo I printed (I love accidents) once and
have had some ideas using a full moon, either way I would like a
straight photo of the full moon for my wall...

I wasn't able to get a hold of some film for the eclipse (DAMN), but
did take two rolls of film on the full moon the next night, I tried
once a couple months back with 3 extra exposures and just snapped some
random ones on a tripod but they were overexposed.

The two rolls I took last week I just sat outside in my drive way with
a 500 mm lens and shot a **** load of random exposures all with
different shutter speeds, f stops and all and am fairly confident that
at least 2 or 3 will come out good.

All I'm wondering is if anyone knows the FG well (if it even matters)
and has some advice for some 'for sure' shots of the moon next time
around....

You can check my Digital stuff out (none of my surreal stuff, that's
all with film) at:

www.myspace.com/itnoise

Thanks!
Devon

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Old September 5th 07, 03:50 AM posted to rec.photo.film+labs
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Default Moon Photography


"That_Rich" wrote

The moon is lit by sunlight. Therefore, the sunny 16 rule applies
(bracket your exposures).


The sunny 16 rule applies only at the moon's full phase. (Since the OP
referenced shooting the full moon before and after the eclipse, yes your
statement is correct.) However, the moon's brightness per unit area is much
greater at full phase than when it is in its "partial" phases, so again the
sunny 16 rule applies only at full moon.

Here are some guidelines for film cameras:

At full moon, with ISO 400 film, try 1/500 at f/16. (There's that sunny 16
rule again!)

During the quarter phases, with ISO 400 film, try 1/100 second at f/16.
Exposures for crescent phases will be considerably longer. Yes, bracket.


 




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