Need some help

How do i go about making the moon look how it's supposed to, and not like a star. Do i need to adjust something on the camera, or is it a filter i need to buy? Or am i just not meant to take pictures after the sun goes down?

Really the only way to do it with a digital camera (at least the only way that I know) is to take multiple shots and merge them together. The problem I see in your photograph is that you need to have slow shutter speed to capture the lights of the city, but you need a pretty fast shutter speed to capture a clear picture of the moon. I think the rule of thumb is to match your ISO setting to your shutter speed (i.e. if your ISO is 100, you shoot at 1/100th second).

Its a really nice photo even with the blown moon, at least IMHO.

You could use a split ND filter which will reduce the amount of light from the moon, or expose for the city lights then take another seperate image of the moon then photoshop them together.

Here's one that I did where I merged two exposure into one photo. I was lucky that the moon was orange the night I was shooting because its a little easier to expose than when it is bright white.

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when every one says merge, do you guys mean to basically cut and past a moon picture into the skyline picture??

I usually create two layers with each exposure on a different layer. I put the "good" moon in the background layer, then erase the "bad" moon from the second layer and allow the good moon to show through. I'm sure there's other ways to do it, but that's how I do it.

There's a good tutorial about blending images here: http://luminous-landscape.com …ls/digital-blending.shtml

Becca thanks for that extremely and helpful website.

Here's my finished product after cropping and all, you might think the moon looks a little big, but it really did look that big, if not bigger tonight.

Very nice! I know what you mean about the big moon. People always say that about the one I posted too, but it was low in the sky and very big!

Good job! I like it a lot!

By george I think you got it!