Yet another moon picture.

Taken today 4 Sept, 2009.

The photo looks great to me. I'm actually surprised it turned out so well for it being at an ISO of 50 and a 1/1000th shutter. I would have figured the image would come out much darker.

gdusek84 wrote in post #8585516
The photo looks great to me. I'm actually surprised it turned out so well for it being at an ISO of 50 and a 1/1000th shutter. I would have figured the image would come out much darker.

I thought the same thing, but the moon is acting like a big mirror reflecting sunlight.
I did do some post processing. The picture here is a 100 percent crop. LoL

It looks really good. Do you live in a rural area?

j.b wrote in post #8587890
It looks really good. Do you live in a rural area?

Amazingly I live in London, UK, zone two, which is about 6 miles away from Central Business District. There's not much industry left in UK, they all went to places different places.. thats another thread.

vampalan wrote in post #8588217
There's not much industry left in UK, they all went to places different places.. thats another thread.

I hear you loud and clear. I live in Detroit.

vampalan wrote in post #8585458
Is there a better setting to use to take pictures of the moon?

You may get better contrast and/or sharpness stopping down a bit.
The sweet spot is usually one or two stops down from wide open, though it largely depends on the lens.