The other night there was the most beautiful blue sky with the most amazing moon I have ever soon but when I tryed to capture it, the moon comes out blurry and crappy. I have tried all the settings that my Kodak Z740 Digital has (I know its not the best camera). And the other evening the sun was setting with the most beautiful hot pink color that I have never seen before and I tried to shoot that but the obvious glare of the sun prevented me from capturing that sight.
2007-09-12 09:18:20 · 4 answers · asked by Hot Betty J 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
You need to do a long exposure and use a tripod (or anything stable, a park bench, a trash can, a fence post, whatever). Set the camera up and if you have manual settings, give it the aperture priority and make it for like 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20... and so on. This is called bracketing. Try going one stop up and one stop down on the exposure. You can't point your camera at the moon and get a good shot. DON'T use flash for these.
If you're able to access my Myspace, look at my photo of Fort Lauderdale at night, it's under the first photo album under my pics. I set the camera up on a railing on a rooftop and snapped the photo for about 4 or 5 seconds. (minimum) and this was the result.
For the moon, it is impossible unless you have a long, fast lens to accurately get a good shot of it. Because the small cameras distort it, making it look like a little pinhole. You need a special lens to do it.
Good luck!
2007-09-13 16:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by Awesome Writer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can you control your aperture with this camera? If so, try the sunny 16 rule on the moon (really!) Use Æ16 with the shutter set 1/ISO, ie if you are shooting at ISO 400 use 1/400 ect.
If you have a meter, set the camera on manual and meter the moon. This is the highlight. Set the aperture for deep focus -try Æ16 or Æ22 and let the shutter speed fall. If it is less than 1/125 use a tripod. If the shutter speed is less than 1/8, adjust the aperture to a wider setting (you can record the movement of the moon at that point - resulting in a blurry shot.)
In the second instance, use a polarizing filter and rotate it to remove as much glare as possible. Also, a lens shade would help immensely.
2007-09-12 23:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by jeannie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My firs recomendation is to put all in Manual mode... If you take the full moon in auto mode, it will be overexposed. sometimes you can take a full moon at 1/500 @ iso100. (use low iso... less noise in shadows)
2007-09-12 16:24:00 · answer #3 · answered by Oliveralex 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
cameras on automatic proform ok in average conditions.
however you are trying to shoot in non average conditions, its not the camera. Cameras are not smart they are dumb, it thinks you are pointing it at green grass and a blue sky
so hes a leason for you: great photography takes photographic skills, as the gentleman above said use manual if you know how
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2007-09-12 16:35:38 · answer #4 · answered by Antoni 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋