Shooting the moodn

[teepee12]

You may wonder how come there's no image. Well, here's how it went.

I decided tonight was the night. Nearly full moon, nice and bright. I brought up my tripod and set it up on the back deck. Put the 300 mm lens on the camera. Got it all aimed right at that big ole' moon.

I turned off the IS. I put it on manual. I set it to a 5 minute exposure and F 16 for an infinite DOF. I got it in what I fondly believed to be focus, counting on the infinity factor to compensate for my imperfect vision.

Not having a wired release for the Olympus, I set it to a 2 second delay to avoid shake from releasing the shutter manually.

I pressed the button and after holding my breath for 2 seconds, it fired.

The moon disappeared behind a cloud. My battery went from reading "full" to "empty" in about 3 seconds.

I turned the camera off, put in a full battery, and put the dead one up to charge. I closed the tripod, put it in it's nice padded carrying case, and tucked my camera in for the night.

That's a wrap, guys. Let's all go home and get some sleep.

[inkista]

Don't worry about it. 5 minutes would've blown the hell out of the moon anyway.

The moon is in direct sunlight. It doesn't require nearly that slow a shutter speed. It's not like astrophotography.



Canon 50D. EF 400mm f/5.6L USM. iso 400. f/5.6. 1/400s. Handheld.

And that's only a half-moon. A full moon is even brighter. Go for it tomorrow night, and you'll get the harvest moon.

[Edsport]

Yup, 5 mins would not be a good idea to shoot the moon...