Metering Full Moon

does anyone have any suggestions for metering a full moon?
I used evaluative.

Forget metering! Try 1/ISO sec @ f/11 & see how it comes out on your histogram.

Meter the moon as it's daylight, since the surface of the moon is reflecting the sunlight.... so pretty fast shutter speeds.

Doen't hurt to shoot raw, and bracket +/- 1 stop also.

PS - spot metering works as well.

For most night work you cannot use camera metering, just try different settings and look at histogram and do a lot of post processing.

This one was 1/250, f/8, ISO 100.
It looks so... I dunno. Cliche'. Like maybe it's been done before. So I moved the camera to try different angles, but it didn't help.

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Looks properly exposed, but a bit out of focus.

So, just how far would you have to travel to get a different angle of the moon?

my problem is... every time i try to shoot the moon, all i get is a bright white ball... even when i can see the details of the craters and such in the viewfinder, it still just comes out as a brite whate ball! i shoot it at 300mm in P-mode, raw!

-zacker-

I was trying this the other night, and took the following shot at 200mm, ISO 100, f8, 1/80 sec.

P mode will never meter properly for this kind of shot, unless you have a REALLY LONG lens to fill up most of the frame with it.

Any time your subject is relatively small in the frame, and the background is much brighter or much darker than your subject, any kind of auto metering is a disaster waiting to happen.

You could be right.

On the other hand, it's a 400x400 pixel crop from the center of a 3072 x 2048 pixel image, taken with my new Sigma 70-200 F2.8. Maybe that's as sharp as it gets?

It was taken with tripod and cable release, but my 300D has no mirror lockup, so maybe there was a bit of shake?

I took one the other night, here it is!
The EXIF is on the left

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This is about my favorite one - f/11, 1/200 second, ISO 640, 600 mm (300/4 & 2X TC):

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All these shots are great! The moon looks like the death star from star wars!
-zacker-

I notice that all of the offered shots were within about 1/2 stop of being the exposure called for by PhotosGuy. What does that tell you?