Fly me to the Moon!

Genoma · 14 Apr 2014 at 21:51

Decided to take a few shots of the full moon tonight and was a case of right place at the right time!

Edit - Oh shutter speed very much played a part in this one so if there is a mod around that can delete the thread please do and I'll enter it in the competition instead.

Fly me to the Moon by ajyoung, on Flickr

413x · 14 Apr 2014 at 22:00

brilliant!

where do you live again?

Genoma · 14 Apr 2014 at 22:09

Sounds like a request for burglary Alex lol. Shrospshire :-)

413x · 14 Apr 2014 at 22:16

i was going to say im not looking for a post code, but could do with a longer lens!

tbh i didnt realise you could get such nice shots in uk

Genoma · 14 Apr 2014 at 22:31

It's a big crop Alex, was taken with the cheap 55-250 on a tripod and some tweaking in LR

Hunders · 14 Apr 2014 at 23:34

Excellent!

rhysduck · 14 Apr 2014 at 23:35

Nice. I wish I still had access to a DSLR

Kevin Clark · 15 Apr 2014 at 12:06

Mars was right next to the moon last night, the bright red dot above it, but you would have needed to zoom out a bit more to get it in the shot.

Nice pic with the plane though.

Genoma · 16 Apr 2014 at 17:41

Yeah I did capture Mars about it in another shot but that needed a much longer exposure for it to show which washed out the moon details. Let me see if I can dig it out.

Josh · 16 Apr 2014 at 17:45

Fabulous shot! Well done

Genoma · 16 Apr 2014 at 18:09

Here it is? wasn't such a long exposure to get it in, just wasn't in the frame for the others. Right at the top of the picture just to the left of the centre?

mars above moon by ajyoung, on Flickr

Admiral Huddy · 17 Apr 2014 at 12:20

Don't think it's worth deleting the thread. Very interesting to discuss..

What lens did you use?

dannyjo22 · 17 Apr 2014 at 15:05

Very nice, although you say the shutter speed played a large part. How exactly other than in the same way as every other shot? 1/40 is pretty slow for a moon shot but I can't see how that makes the shot?

^ If that sounds critical it's not my intention, just wondering what I'm missing

Genoma · 17 Apr 2014 at 18:38

AH, I used the 55-250 STM, which is turning out to be a bit of a bargain / jack of all trades. Picture is very cropped though.

Dannyjo, well I guess it didn't' really play a part in terms of arranging the composition at all, so I wasn't going for blurry long shutter or freeze frame ultra fast. And the plane, that was just huge luck to have crossed it at that time.

Shutter was about getting the right exposure, I couldn't rely on the light meter to do this, so it wasn't a case of checking the exposure level indicator and shooting, I had to vary the shutter and check the results until I could see the details on the moon rather than just a white blob. Took me about 20 shots to get it right.

Next time though I will probably know that with this lens at f/8, ISO 100, 1/40 shutter will be the sweet spot in which case it won't play a part at all.

From the compo point of view, I guess it's debatable, happy to remove it or simply ask people not to vote if they don't think it applies, just a bit of fun after all