How To...moon pictures

[wonton]

The other night, the moon and clouds looked so cool. I went to grab my Canon Rebel XT and tripod. First used no filter, then used neutral density. I could not get a good picture. The moon came out too bright and you could not see much of anything esle. Is there something else I could have done?

[PhotosGuy]

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[steven]

There really isn't anything you can do.
The light range between the clouds (not so bright) and the moon (bright) is just too great to capture.

I was out the other night facing the same problem. Only thing I came up with was to wait until a thick area of cloud covered the moon and the I shoot that. Some came out OK.
Other choice would be to take two shoots one for the clouds and one for the moon and the photo shop them together. I have a couple that might be worth doing this but have not had the time yet to play.

[OceanRider]

just speed up ur shutter and it will come out fine!

[cfcRebel]

I don't have telephoto lens yet. So i used my 50mm. I sped up the shutter, lowered the aperture (f16,f22). Wala, got myself a moon shot.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=511326#post511326

[shoot123]

You could shoot at DUSK when the light reflected from the moon is closer to the intensity of the light from the landscape.

You could also shoot two exposures with same composition & merge them later on the computer.

Or, you could shoot two exposures with landscape only on #1, and the moon only one #2, and merge them.