 Paula Vergara |
nightime photography What is the best type of film to use for nighttime photography? I've tried taking images of the moon a few times using 100 ISO or 50 ISO using the bracketing method, but they come out blurry. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Jon Close |
You're probably giving the moon too much exposure because your meter is responding to all the black sky around the moon. With overexposure the moon becomes just a glaring white spot with no detail. If the shutter speed is longer than about 1/4 second, then the moon and stars begin "steaking" due to the earth's rotation. The moon is brightly lit by the sun and so a variation of the "sunny 16" rule applies ("moony 8"). For a full moon start with f/8 and a shutter speed of 1/film ISO (eg. 1/125 or 1/90 for ISO 100). This site, http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/howtophoto/ has a table with adjusted exposures for different moon phases.
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