Quick study of the moon with the new lens. I learned a few things.
First, that the tripod will still oscillate a bit with the ginormous lens on this camera. 5 lbs atop a raised pedestal was bad. So I had to keep it just on the legs, and then I set the timer so there was a 3 second delay to give it a moment to settle.
Full moon is one week from today and it’s due to be warm and dry
B, if there is camera shake on the tripod, the AS does a darned good job of taking care of it.
And, 3, some of the images have a lot of noise. I think I have to overexpose the moon a bit to get the black of the sky to stay — black. Although it was quite blue when I took these pics, but obviously the moon is significantly brighter than the sky half an hour after sunset.
I took a few at different settings, different apertures, different shutter speeds. Except for the ones with noisy black areas, they all look just as good as one another by the time they hit jpeg. I guess that’s a good thing, though it sure is easy these days.
All manual — it will NEVER auto expose properly, no matter what I try — and on a tripod.
I’ll do more in the upcoming nights. Full moon is one week from today and it’s due to be warm and dry, so I bet I get some more chances.
Not worth another post, but I tried out the multiple exposure on the camera an hour ago. Took the stars first, then the moon, as a double exposure. By the beach on a hazy night, so the starfield isn’t super spectacular, but it gives me ideas. I can try this in the desert with less light pollution to make a fun image.
No photoshop. I don’t even have photo editing software other than the free Nikon stuff right now. I’m sure I could do composites in lightroom if I bothered to use it, but what the heck. This is old school, like how you’d shoot film.
