 Frank Goodin |
Shooting Moonlit Scenes I'm having trouble getting shots of moonlit scenes at night. When I use long exposures to get all of the details of the scene then the moon gets badly overexposed and becomes elongated instead of being round. Any suggestions?
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Terry L. Long |
If you're talking about shooting a scene (low light) with the moon in it, then you have to double-expose. What's happening is you're exposing for the scene (not the moon), which requires a long exposure. In that case, the moon will be overexposed (because it's brighter than the scene) and will move while you are exposing the scene. To be successful, shoot the scene in low light at whatever you come up with for the correct exposure. Do not include the moon. Also, when you compose the scene, leave some blank space in the sky where you want to place the moon. Now, set your camera to double-expose. Get the moon into your scene where you left the blank space. Now, expose for the moon and shoot. Good luck.
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Jeff Grove |
Terry has the right idea with a double exposure, but I believe when you do a double exposure you have to reduce each exposure by ONE stop in the case of two exposures. The degree to which you reduce the exposure increases proportionally with the number of multiple exposures you make.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Doing a moon and night scene double exposure you don't have to do that because you don't have an overlap of exposed scenes. The moon is put in a part of the frame that really hasn't been exposed - or has been exposed very little. But if it's overlapping images, then you should reduce exposure, half of however many images. 2 images, one stop. 3 images, 1 and 1/2. 4 images, 2 stops.
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Robert L. Bradshaw |
When exposing for the moon you have to remember it is an object lit by full sunlight, so basically the "sunny f/16 rule" applies. Also it moves rather fast in the sky; any exposure longer than one second and it will start to streak accross your frame giving you the "elongated instead of round" problem.
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