Friday, May 18, 2012

How to photograph the moon


For all amateur photographers the brightest object in the night sky is usually the most difficult to photograph. Enjoys the ability to capture the moon is the dream of every person watching the sky over the matter. Personally, I am always fascinated by the stars at night ... And after some tests I realized that the rear camera with what I saw was not that hard.
Depending on how you decide to vehicle location and size of the moon adds calls, romanticism, magic, fantasy and mystery, always with the idea of ​​another world than ours.
To represent the estate may seem complicated, but as always, just a little practice: During the day you should be more on the artistic composition, but to concentrate on the night, you need some technical trick.
There are two major problems that you provide, is a moon and other relationships, to behold the eyes much more about the moon than the image is displayed making. This article examines how these problems and look for some spectacular pictures of the moon.

 One :  The proper perspective:

I'm trying to do to try at this point as clearly as possible to explain: the problem of perspective images of the moon, by the fact that the moon's distance from you very much greater than the distance between you and other objects in the image (like the mountains, a city in the background, etc. is to be represented.).
This difference, combined with the lenses with short distance, smaller size, so try to remember when shooting with a wide angle that the moon in the background. Different focal length than the longest objects appear close to each other: the image plane for the compression of perspective.
Therefore portraits with the core long enough (even 85 or 100 mm), the effect of making our projections cartoon face causes the image to eliminate less invasively. Our brains automatically manipulates the images we see in our eyes, if you can bring to the "real" photography, you must apply the same manipulations with the help of technology! (Focal length and a good plan)

Two. Exposure:

Whether the brightest object in the sky, the moon will probably appear overexposed when shooting with automatic exposure and bright star disks.
As I said above, the human eye can not be a problem, because the brain is capable of a wider spectrum of light can be compared to a digital sensor to see. With a digital camera, can not but be very simple or very dark subjects in a single image: if we choose a scene with black and white onions in most cases, want to shoot.
How do you solve the problem of exposure? With film cameras, we can double exposures and create two images in the same frame of film, but with digital, we do the two images at a later time integrated post-production.
Surprised? Now, 99% of the pictures in the night, with performances of the various images associated with the moon!
This is because, like I said, you are not able to properly expose the moon and the scene in an image. If you can, give me a call.

Three. When and where to shoot the moon

As everyone knows, the moon has received phases that are different every night, a lunar calendar and select the night just a wave or a beautiful full moon and to take clearer. In the city to consider you have the light pollution, then I suggest you move or the sea or the mountains, where there is a scene that is also suited to the moon picture.

Four. Tips pills

- Use a tripod, is probably not a telephoto lens with a little involuntary movement of the camera with a blurred image details.
-. The most appropriate targets of 200 mm zoom If you want left without buying a new lens.

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