My Moon Shot....

I always thought shooting the moon was easy... ERRRRR, wrong... lol

I found it tough to get some really sharp images... Using my 5DMKIII + Canon 2x Extender + 70-200 f/2.8

I tested it with my 7D and 5D MKIII got better images with my 5D MKIII, but i had fun...

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whats that thing on the top of your camera?

Ebwly wrote in post #14919660
whats that thing on the top of your camera?

it's a wireless shutter release.

got it at B&H for for 29.99 a while back. It works really GREAT! too, now thought the price is up to 59.99 i see..

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …Plus_Wireless_R​emote.html

what makes it color blue? i've use this settings but the result is all white without details at all: 1/320 f9 ISO 100, tungsten WB, mirror lock enabled, 10sec, on a tripod 100-400 canon lens with 2x extender. What did i miss or do wrong? BTW, I am new to this forum, how do i insert my sample photo? Thank you.

MW54 wrote in post #14933870
what makes it color blue? i've use this settings but the result is all white without details at all: 1/320 f9 ISO 100, tungsten WB, mirror lock enabled, 10sec, on a tripod 100-400 canon lens with 2x extender. What did i miss or do wrong? BTW, I am new to this forum, how do i insert my sample photo? Thank you.

Tungsten WB! Use Auto WB, shoot in RAW, and adjust the WB in post... if need be. Auto WB generally gives me an accurate( or at least close) result.

I had a lot of trouble with auto focus when I shot this one. It would lock on fine but it was just very slightly out of focus. So I turned off IS and AF and did MF. One thing I learned about the Canon 70-200 f/4L IS is that when the focus ring is set wide open to infinity it's not accurate. I mean the moon is ~238,000 miles from Earth so you would think infinity setting would be fine but it was blurry wide open. I had to back it off a tad to get it right and man is that focus ring touchy. I would estimate my in focus range was only a millimeter or two wide when rotating the focus ring. It was a **** to get right. Then I got this one good shot out of about 15 images

Last nights "Blue Moon"... I took this with my tripod mounted Canon 5D MkIII and Canon 70-200 f/4L IS lens at 200mm f/8 1/30 ISO100. I also used a wireless remote to activate the shutter.

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One thing: when shooting from a tripod, you should always turn of IS. The IS will try to do slight corrections when doing an exposure, and will actually introduce shake to the camera when mounted. I hope you are using mirror lockup too.

Keep up the good work.

John

I found it diffucult to get clear results with the 2x extender.
On your tripod, turn IS off. Kick on live view, zoom in to 10x magnification then manually focus for best results.


I have this remote shutter release:

http://amzn.com/B004FL​C7YC

On your

what was your exposure. with the stars showing, had to be a few seconds or more. did you have a rotator of some type to track motion?

I bet it's a composite. You can't expose the almost-full moon and the stars at the same time. His exposure was only 1/30 at ISO 100 so those can't be real stars.

As for focusing at infinity, the infinity mark on lenses isn't designed to be completely accurate. Focusing is so touchy that you can't trust the mark and the exacty focus point might even vary with focal length in a zoom lens. It's only a general guide. Sometimes lens makers will allow the lens to focus past infinity just to be sure that inifinity is within reach.

I don't know what those are. It was a very dark night for a full moon so you could see a lot of stars but with the moon being so bright I'm not sure how I got those. This is the first picture of the moon I've ever taken. Beats me...

@dtufino: Not too bad, at all.

MW54 wrote in post #14933870
what makes it color blue? i've use this settings but the result is all white without details at all: 1/320 f9 ISO 100, tungsten WB, mirror lock enabled, 10sec, on a tripod 100-400 canon lens with 2x extender. What did i miss or do wrong? BTW, I am new to this forum, how do i insert my sample photo? Thank you.

*Something* in your settings didn't match what you think the settings were; a full moon is right around 1/160, f/8 and ISO 100:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/snydremark/7935​120430/

I do not mean to hijack the topic but has anyone used a Canon RC-1, it works on my 60D and my former XTi. Both cameras are gripped and I attached it to hand strap, see below. I just love it and along with the Canon strap, they are the 2 least expensive items Canon makes. Also but not recommended you can run it through a wash machine without problems, oops.