Moon Shot - Finally Nailed It
After my recent success capturing the Roosevelt Bridge at night after so many years, I thought I would try once more to capture a clear shot of the full moon. I left all the settings on the camera untouched and waited the almost two weeks to make the shot. The results were instantly disappointing. Nothing but a white blob. The thing I like about photography is the constant learning curve. The constant frustration can get old sometimes though. I am still and will likely always be an amateur photographer with expensive but mostly all used equipment. My $1,800.00 used lens, as good as it is, just can not seem to make this shot with my level of skill. I had some luck previously with my $99.00 Vivitar Series 1 lens with the 2X converter giving me a full 1,000 MM. This is a fully manual lens. I set the camera to 400 ISO but the focus and aperture are manually set on the lens. The one thing I had always done in the past was set the aperture wide open. ...