The Official Shoot the Moon Thread

samsen wrote in post #17504340
Vladdo:
Must admit, I envy everything about you inverted people. You have the best sky, best life, best scenery, best air, best food, best drinks, best whatever... Is there a chance that if I ashore in a floating device, can receive some sort of asylum, may be "Better Life Seeker Sucker" asylum? I am going to watch the youtube about things that float now. Or may be it is that more blood gets to brain of inverted people in lower hemisphere to make them always ahead of curve?!!
On the serious side, really envy your blood moon image detail. Saw the higher rez on FB and took the note of the right recipe. FF, ISO friendly sensor, 1/2 sec speed, ISO 4000, 800ish focal length. Any chance to name the glass? I assume its a long tele with TC.

You forgot the most important one... women he he he..

Shot with a 5D mk3 and sigma 150-600 lens.. I used a 2x Sigma TC & an old kenko pro 1.4x TC but the 2x sigma is more or less rubbish as it destroys IQ.. That said the 1.4x TC isn't too much of a hit. The biggest problem is @ 840mm, you can't have a 1-2 second shutter speed as the moon as moved a lot by then, so only thing left is iso..

When the moon was at full brightness, I can have a 100 iso, but when it's in shadow, you can't.. So was shot at 1/6th sec @ 4000 iso.. Manually focused with Live View and set for 10x zoom so I could actually see what was in focus. Used a remote trigger to minimise any camera shake. Processed in Lightroom with clarity @ 100 and oversharpened to bring out all the details in the craters.. I've also pulled shadows down really low so that it makes the tonal contrast over the moon that much more dramatic.. it should be mostly grey but I think it just ends up looking too flat..

Was speaking to a couple of San Franners the other day, having never been here before, and their biggest comment was how clean australia is and how the food is so nice.. the worse thing was driving on the wrong side and that everything here is very expensive.. Can't have everything I suppose..

Mine, from Las Vegas.

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Good one

Nice Brylek.

Didn't know about the eclipse and was hoping to shoot the full moon setting on my drive north yesterday, but got part of the eclipse instead.

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clouds shut down the second half

LV Moose wrote in post #17505263
Good one

AbPho wrote in post #17505360
Nice Brylek.

Thank you and thank you

My first moon shot. Canon 7d, Tamron 150-600, handheld

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IMG_5800

daverator wrote in post #17508894
My first moon shot. Canon 7d, Tamron 150-600, handheld

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Great image. Good time to picture moon with one of the most interesting moon phases (Waning Gibbous).
Good for you to have it all right on first try.

samsen wrote in post #17508986
....one of the most interesting moon phases (Waning Gibbous).

Where would one find info about this... the more interesting moon phases to photograph? I mean, I know that shooting the moon in less than its full phase gives more shadows and therefore more definition to craters and other things on the surface. But where can I get more detailed info on the best phases to shoot?

Lovely image, Dave

Thanks guys, it might look better with a little better pp, but it was 2:00 in the morning and I'm still getting the hang of Lightroom. I didn't even know what time moon rise was, I know nothing about this stuff. Looked here for some info.
http://www.timeanddate​.com/moon/usa/sidney

LV Moose wrote in post #17509075
Where would one find info about this... the more interesting moon phases to photograph? I mean, I know that shooting the moon in less than its full phase gives more shadows and therefore more definition to craters and other things on the surface. But where can I get more detailed info on the best phases to shoot?

Lovely image, Dave

My understanding is same as yours and I did not read it anywhere to give you an independent reference. Well beside the longer shadows of craters and a lot more detail over the moon's surface, during either Gibbous phase, waxing or waning, the brightness of moon is substantially higher than other phases and is close to full moon so you easily can have an ISO 100 with relatively very rapid shutter speed or a room to tighten your F stop to get into sweet F zone, with littler compromise elsewhere.
Adding all, you have the Best Moon phase or at least my experience says so. I would like to hear others opinion on this too and thank for bringing up the subject.

Shot with a Canon 6D and Canon 400mm f2.8L IS v1. Taken at about 4pm.

Happy with my timing for this shot