a little experiment with landscape, long exposure

[troytime]

I've been exerimenting with this tree for a few weeks now. I've taken several hdr shots with this tree as well.

a tree


I wasn't sure what the best way to capture this is.
I knew that i wouldn't be able to get the moon exposed correctly AND have the tree.

What i've learned:
- bring bug spray
- bring flash light (holy crap, bring a flash light)
- the moon moves pretty fast accross the sky. I took one 30 second exposure where a twig crossed in front of the moon and traveled about .25 through it before the exposure was finished. (didn't show up in picture of course)
- when resetting camera to default settings, it sets the image options to JPG Normal (not fine, not raw )

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Not quite sure why you're shooting at f/14. f/8 would be just fine and allow you to use a faster shutter speed. Also, the moon is a very bright object. If you want the tree and the moon properly exposed you need to shoot one shot to expose the moon and another to expose the tree. The one to expose the moon can even be less than a second. Then obviously merge then with HDR software.

 

[troytime]

i actually DID take several exposures (to get the moon), but i haven't merged yet

I took a lot of shots at a lot of different settings - this was just the first to get output.

I really had no interest in landscape type photography until a couple weeks ago. It's all new to me (actually, pretty much anything photography is new to me)

 

[TheChort]

I took a 1/250 shot of the moon last night and it came out way better than any of the slower ones.
I shot it in RAW, and upped the exposed in photoshop later

 

[dug777]

I wouldn't shoot the moon at more than 1/200, based on previous experience.

 

[troytime]

i wasn't shooting the moon