bad moon rising

[fish]

Problem: very bright full moon with hazy aura. 100/2.8 macro lens. I could see the definition of the moon through the viewfinder, but I could not for the life of me capture it. I tried a range of exposures, a range of apertures, and center-weighted metering. They all turned out similar to this one. Do I need a neutral density filter? Is the moon too bright?

[fish]

Manual
1/400 f8

[Deacon]

Fish,

Maybe you can help, there is no image showing up on your posts. I have noticed this on other threads that some of the photos are present, the others just say the image is attached?!?

Deacon

[wxwax]

Is that the moon?

[cmr164]

Manual
1/400 f8
Still over exposed. Which ISO were you using?

I applied a .3 gamma to the 2nd one and got:

[pathfinder]

Manual
1/400 f8
Fish - What is the moon but a sun lit object - that is to say - the moon basically needs the same exposure as a sunlit scene on Earth - and your camera meter gets confused with all the black arund the moon.
Good exposure estimate is 1/ISO at f16 for a sunlit seen - hence at ISO 100 you should need 1/100 second at f16 for the moon OR 1/200 at f11 OR!!!!! 1/400 at f8. How about that - My estimate matched your exposure! Kool huh!

[Shay Stephens]

Fish - What is the moon but a sun lit object - that is to say - the moon basically needs the same exposure as a sunlit scene on Earth - and your camera meter gets confused with all the black arund the moon.
Good exposure estimate is 1/ISO at f16 for a sunlit seen - hence at ISO 100 you should need 1/100 second at f16 for the moon OR 1/200 at f11 OR!!!!! 1/400 at f8. How about that - My estimate matched your exposure! Kool huh!
I will second that. Treat the moon like you would a daytime shot.

[fish]

Still over exposed. Which ISO were you using?

I applied a .3 gamma to the 2nd one and got:
ISO800. Nice gamma touch, but I wanted to capture the halo too.

[fish]

Fish - What is the moon but a sun lit object - that is to say - the moon basically needs the same exposure as a sunlit scene on Earth - and your camera meter gets confused with all the black arund the moon.
Good exposure estimate is 1/ISO at f16 for a sunlit seen - hence at ISO 100 you should need 1/100 second at f16 for the moon OR 1/200 at f11 OR!!!!! 1/400 at f8. How about that - My estimate matched your exposure! Kool huh!
Cool. Clearly, I have some work to do.

Thanks for the responses.

[pathfinder]

Cool. Clearly, I have some work to do.

Thanks for the responses. Nah!!!

Here is a previous attempt of mine at ISO 400. 1/750 CALL IT 1/800 at f9.5 - Should have been 1/400 at f16 or 1/800 at f11 - so it is slightly underexposed I think http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/2287088-L.jpg

[Shay Stephens]

ISO800. Nice gamma touch, but I wanted to capture the halo too.
The dynamic range is likely too much to capture in a single exposure. Maybe with RAW, but I doubt it. Likely you will need to do a large bracket shot of at least two exposures and stack the images later in an image editor.

[DoctorIt]

The dynamic range is likely too much to capture in a single exposure. Maybe with RAW, but I doubt it. Likely you will need to do a large bracket shot of at least two exposures and stack the images later in an image editor.I was just gonna say, do it in photoshop... as a matter of fact...

[DoctorIt]

very quick hack job... used a cooling filter too: