On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:57 PM, John Coyle wrote: > I'm not a cat person myself, so the subject is only OK for me! But, a > distinct improvement with the exposures, Jeffery, you seem to be nailing > that. For the moon shot, if memory serves me right you need to overexpose > by 2-3 stops compared with the automatic meter setting to get a bright moon > surface (correct me if I'm wrong, PDML'ers!) >
My technique is to put the camera in M, set the the aperture, then use the green button to set shutter speed (I have the green button configured to Av mode). I then chimp the histogram and adjust so that the brights are just short of clipping (Expose To The Right). Also, the moon is actually better to shoot at half than at full, because you get more depth cues from shadows of the edges of the craters. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
