With a larger moon in the sky, it’ll be a great opportunity to get some good photographs. The moon will also be about 16% brighter than normal, so you’ll be able to use faster shutter speeds which will help make the photo sharper.
Here are some great articles from around the web to help prepare you for photographing the “super moon” this weekend:
Good luck! And, feel free to share any moon photography tips with us by leaving a comment below 🙂
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About the Author: Steve Berardi is a naturalist, photographer, software engineer, and founder of PhotoNaturalist. You can usually find him hiking in the beautiful mountains and deserts of southern California.
wow!!
can’t wait for it…
Thanks for the heads up. Looks like I’ll be staying up late this coming Saturday night.
16% faster shutter speed…wow…that’s over a fifth of a stop!
My problem is that my camera settings work in third or half stop increments…please help.
Sorry…the engineer in me got outta control…please forgive.
@Winston – You’re right, it’s not that much, but there’s a lot of little things in photography that you can do to increase the sharpness of your shots (e.g. mirror lock-up, tripod collars, using a remote shutter release, using the sharpest apertures of your lenses, etc). Sure, by themselves, maybe none of those will produce noticeably sharper photographs, but when you start adding up a lot of these little things, you can definitely see a difference.
Tried it tonight in Sydney, Australia and I used my old Sigma 170-500mm f5-6.3 on my Pentax k7.
Wow it was bright and at 1/30 sec f22 focal length 750 i am very happy with the result. Tripod mount, mirror lock-up and cable release.
Thank you Steve for the heads up about this event. Your website is one of my very favourites.
Keep up the good work.