[masraum]

I've been taking shots of the moon every night that I had a decent sky since the 22nd. The first shot is crud, but I thought it was interesting to catch the dark side. I went back and cropped the all the same and tried to get the post processing as close as possible while still yielding a similar image. I've done lots of tinkering in the last 2 nights with 100-400 ISO, smaller aperature and slower shutter speeds 1/160<>1/500. So far I've found that staying below 800 ISO and getting the focus right seem to yield the best results. I'm not sure that f5.6 vs f8 vs f11 really makes much difference as long as the exposure is comparable. I can say with 100% certainty that when you are looking at the moon thru the viewfinder, that you can actually see it move at 300mm. The first shot is a 2 sec exposure, so it's actually got some motion blur from top left to bottom right.
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