Biggest Full Moon Possible Will Be Visible March 19

I liked the contrast with the less exposed.

Here's an f8, 1/60
and f8, 1/30

 

Would have liked to have seen an F/22 at 1/10th.

 

F22? Being mostly a macro photographer, I'm hard pressed to close up my aperture that much. I'll try again with that setting.

What do you think that would have given me?

 

I use to shoot fireworks with that setting. It helps with depth of field. But with fireworks, I would leave the aperture open for seconds. Even with macro shots, you want to increase your depth of field as much as possible.

I also use to shoot bugs. Again, with as much depth of field as possible. It required me to put them in the freezer for a while and then set the stage and shoot. Usually took about 5 minutes under lights before they started to move again. LOL

 

hmmm...I'll try it next time. I did some research and for the most part, the recommended aperture was f8 to around f16, so I didn't go over that. I prefer shooting a less than full moon. I think you get more detail and shadow on it.



As far as my macro....lol..not a chance. I generally don't go over f4.5. I don't shoot bugs though. I'd probably change it for that.

 

No, even for close up of flowers and such, you need to set at at least F/16. Otherwise you end up with a pistol in focus and the rest not. I hate pictures in magazines that show a cake and only one spot on the cake is in focus. You should try playing with smaller apertures and longer shutter speeds!! :major

 

I'll agree to disagree with you on that one. That's my style of choice. Usually I'm on f2.8 or f3...:-D

 

Since you are using digital, you aren't wasting film and processing by experimenting. Try putting a background cloth behind a flower and set a flash to backlight it. Then use a small aperture and bracket your exposure. Play!!

 

Ha! I have. lol I've used background cloth, a light box. I've used backlighting, sidelighting, natural lighting. Etc, etc.:major

I haven't experimented much with the moon though, so will be doing that.

 

You can try taking bracketed shots of this ---> :kissmy

 

I'm not sure there's any correct exposure on that one. :-D

 

Self exposed .....LOL

 

Thanks Fred.

lol...someone convinced me a while ago to invest in a good tripod. Was a great investment.

 

I shoot in RAW so my original files are huge. lol... I'm not sure I can use MGs file system for it.

This isn't too bad. You'll have to crop it.

 

Here's the one I like in full size.