One night in Italy we looked out the window of our hotel room and saw a huge,
beautiful moon. I got out my camera right away and started snapping away, but
all my pictures looked terrible—the moon was blown out without any of the
detail I could see with my eyes, and the background was grainy and gray.
CameraMan to the rescue! Here was his advice for taking
great moon pics: Expose for the moon, not
for the background. That meant bumping the ISO down to 400 (instead of
1600, which is what I usually use at night) and bumping the shutter speed way
up to 1/200 or 1/400 of a second. The results? A much more detailed moon and a
much less grainy night sky.
Apparently this is also the best technique for taking stage
pictures of someone in a spotlight. It’s good to have a CameraMan around when
you need him.
Photos by LMB
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What great photos!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rachel!
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