sparkymarky
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thought i would share this one, as many of you (turners especially) seem to be keen photographers, so after 1/2 hour in the freezing cold tonight i finally managed to get a good one, chuffed to bits with it.

the one that is attached to my camera, i`ve got a fujifilm hs20exr bridge camera goes up to 30x zoom (720mm equivalent), bought it about 5 months ago but only now with some christmas time off, getting a chance to play with the manual settings.Hudson Carpentry":iivq3knj said:What lens did you use?
RogerS":2qjxxr9t said:tripod? It's very sharp. Long exposure?
yep `hama star 62` (christmas present) really pleased with it, obviously not a high end tripod but does the job very very well.RogerS":3elwe687 said:tripod?
that`ll be a bit of photoshop, i just sharpened it up a little.RogerS":3elwe687 said:It's very sharp
the setting that gave me the best result was this-RogerS":3elwe687 said:Long exposure?
Thing to remember is that the moon is lit by the same sunlight that falls here on earth, so long exposures will be likely to overexpose. Also (unless you're shooting a very close detail of the moon's surface) because of the amount of dark sky around it, many cameras/light-meters will be 'fooled' into over-exposing as well; the joy of shooting digitally is that you can see in a couple of seconds how close (or not) your exposure is, and can adjust it accordingly.sparkymarky":2oeun909 said:i found too with the long exposure i struggled to get it to be anything other than a white blurry blob on a black backdrop.
DTR":it8d2920 said:Nice photo =D>
RogerS":it8d2920 said:tripod? It's very sharp. Long exposure?
In my experience long exposures of the moon don't work because it moves across the sky too quickly. Unless I'm doing something wrong...?