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One of the most informative moon photography tutorial I've ever seen. Huge work behind it, thank you very much!

With 30 minutes less daylight week by week here in northern Sweden the moon is one subject that will be available in ample doses for the next few months. A very timely guide! Thank you.

Excelllent video with really helpful information. Thank you.

Thank you for this interesting and informative tutorial.

Extraordinary! What I like most is the holistic approach. From shot the moon as part of a landscape to moon shot only and much more! Thanks a lot!

Thanks Gordon, BRILLIANT video, you got off to a great start because you used the camera model I happen to own, the Canon 760D. Your video has totally revolutionised how I think about photographing the moon. No more photographing boring full moons for me, from now on!

Everyone needs to watch this video. Thank you for this.

Excellent! Very thorough and well-presented. Clear skies!

Excellent tips. Also fascinated by the moon for decades so its time to shoot it.

definitely the best video of moon photography!

Very helpful!

Just gotten back to shooting the moon and this was a great tutorial. It's very well organized and the images are spectacular. Well done and tha k you for sharing, Gordon.

Brilliant video 👍

Thanks again Gordon for your tutorial, I can't wait to see the moon with this kodak az421 16mp 42x camera..when the moon appears in the sky lol, I love your shots of the moon very good, I doubt if I will get the same quality but to be truthful I bought the camera specifically for my daughters wedding, hopefully I should get some good photographs, the last time I used a Samsung 7 mega pixels camera with my other daughters wedding, I was more than happy at that time, so I am hoping to be more than happy with this kodak. Have fun hope to hear from you soon take care.

Well done Gordon. Nice tutorial that inspires.

Great tutorial Gordon. Thanks

This is such great information! Thank you for your tutorial!!

hi after watching 100s of how to videos which I didn't understand after watching all your videos let me say they are the best easy to understand so cheers from Australia

21 College Student Here. I have a secondhand Nikon D3100 and got two lenses with it. (Normal and a (70 - 300 (?) zoom type of lenses). This video was interesting for learning about moon photography. Great video. 😊✌🏻

Excellent tutorial Gordon. I genuinely knew nothing about photographing the moon until we went out and shot this, and now that I have seen all of your other tips I feel equipped to give it a go! Happy to help out, as always.

Brilliant video gordon great pictures.

That's a nice one. Thanks for the detailed information.

Some good information and tips, specially about the apps! Most people know the sunny 16 rule for daylight photography, but there's a lesser know loony 11 rule which works the same way for shots of the moon. For those that don't know, set your aperture to the corresponding rule and then use the same shutter speed as your ISO settings. It's obviously not always perfect, especially given British weather, but it's a decent starting point for those who are new to manual settings. Hope this helps.

This really helps. I’ve been trying with varying degrees of success to get a satisfying shot of the moon for years! I’ll be out there this week with your tutorial very much in mind!

Your videos, tutorials and reviews are absolutely fantastic, keep up the good work really appreciate your time and efforts.

Really well done Gordon. Enjoy your latest lockdown buddy!

Great video. I enjoy taking photos of the moon when it’s on the horizon as well. I like the reddish colour and having something else interesting in the frame

Handy tip on the apps!

Great informational video Gordon cheers

It's encouraging to know that even the pros have to make multiple trips to get a good moon shot! My success rate is pretty low, always seem to have some sort of cloud cover or hazy conditions that obscure it at the horizon...

Bloody brilliant and will be using the apps for a project of mine thank you!

The Moon-Venus crescent composite is super!

Thank you very much for this Gordon! Learned a lot!

Excellent stuff Gordon. Now I know how, thank you.

Definitely inspiring and helpful

Yesss! My favorite is photographing the moon with in the foreground branches.

Great video. Thanks for all the effort that went into this. Very inspiring.

Photographing the Moon is one of my favourite games. But it's not an easy one, here, in the big city. At least not for someone who wants a foreground and I do want one. So, when it's full or its very last or very first crescent, I try and catch it when it rises or sets because it does so when there's still some light in the foreground, making it possible for me to capture detail everywhere in one shot. If, and that's a big if here, it's not cloudy. Happened again with the latest full moon. Clear(ish) skies before and after but not on the day it was full or even the day before and the day after. I did get something I might like from 2 days later, but the foreground was already pretty dark when I could see the Moon. Oh yeah, speaking of the foreground: it's also difficult to find an interesting foreground, with a clear view of the Moon and distant enough I can make an interesting composition with the long lens I'm bound to use for this kind of shot. Lots of challenges but I did get a couple I'm really happy with.

Thanks!

Great video, thanks for sharing.

I too felt that cresent moon is more interesting than full moon. Thanks for the tutorial.

Thank you Gordon, this is one of my favorite subjects, also one that I screw up the most! I’ve been using the R5 with the RF 800 and 2x, and EF 100-400 and 2x. I love craters, I get a few on non- full moons. On the 800 I use f11, 1/30 and iso 125. Thx

Helpful! Thanks! I've been shooting the moon off and on for about a year with varying results. Like yourself, I've found the phases other than full much more interesting and detailed visually due to the shadow and crater detail that becomes visible. Primary equipment I use are: Sony 6500, Sony 70-350mm at 350, Manual focus, manual settings only. Usually 1/60th, f8 (full moon) and iso 100. I've done it both handheld and tripod mounted using delay. Less light on the surface calls for f6.3 . Detail is good but I usually feel the need to crop quite a bit to get the larger image in the frame. Haven't tried using the video mode, but perhaps next time! Last night was the Halloween Full moon over Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Spooky!

Great video! Really enjoyed that.

Thanks for the tips!

thank you for sharing

Thanks Gordon :)

Great video! I find also that one can gain experience shooting the moon with just a few sessions. The 10x zoom and self timer settings are invaluable now I just wish the R7 didn’t revert to 1x after the burst of shots are taken. I must test the previous 7D line to see if that happens

Awesome tutorial

Excellent educational video, again, thank you. I'm going to look through your videos and see if you've done a star time-lapse (or similar instruction), too. Really appreciate you, thanks so much.

Good stuff...I missed the Blue moon last night here in the US...aarrgghh...

Any sunsurveyor free alternatives? And great video as always Gordon.

Thanks for an excellent tutorial Gordon, must try this at the next opportunity. very inspiring, as with your 'In Camera' book , which i always enjoy dipping in to, so much useful information and Great photographs in there to soak up.

I think there might be some error in the exposure formula: I shoot full moon at F8 1/125 and 200 iso with correct exposure. So it seems the moon in your area is four times brighter than in my backyard.

Excellent video Gordon, I love shooting the moon, similarly with less expensive gear and some have turned out really well. I live just up the cost in Worthing so I'll try and head for the beach in a few weeks and try a similar shot over Worthing pier. After watching your long exposure video I headed to the beach and took a blue hour long exposure shot of the pier and it is still one of my favourite photos.i would love to see more videos like this, I find them quite inspiring, do you do workshops?

Awesome tutorial. Moon photography is one of the reasons why I decided to get into the hobby. Quick question: is it possible to use a teleconverter with any ef lens on an aps-c size canon? E.g. would a teleconverter work with the 70-300 + ef adapter on an m6ii ?

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nice tutorial sir..i love it

Great video love taken picture's of the moon could u tell the app you used cheers Jonathan

I use standard 4/3 camera and lens, should I dial f8 or openwide for aperture?

cracking thanks and them App sound and look great for Sun sets too I am trying to get the RF100-500 so if I get the 2x :) 1000 would be great nice and close . as Im in the middlands a nice tree may be a good foreground and the moon through the winter branches , I can see it just need to find the tree lol and get the lens , or may just go for the RF800 F11

Brilliant Gordon! This was probably the most thorough lunar tutorial in terms of cameras with lenses I've seen. I mainly image the Moon via the AVI stacking technique with dedicated astro cams and telescopes, but I'm keen to do some landscape Lunar shots after seeing this. I'm also intrigued as to which telescope you have? I can't see any Chromatic aberration and you had plenty of image scale so I'm going to take a stab at it being a 102mm Maksutov Cassegrain by Skywatcher or Celestron? Cheers Gordon, great tutorial!

A little late for my Halloween 'blue moon' photos last night but your advice is much appreciated. I figured some of this out through trial and error. Your videos are amazing and have inspired me to find a location with an interesting foreground during rise! 🌝

Be interesting to see you do with a telescope aswell. Great video

What is the white balance stetting for: Moon in dark sky? Moon on the horizon?

I tried using 7 shot AEB for this but totally blew it. I am curious, how would you take photos when it's night time with the full moon out? Because obviously the moon will be way brighter than everything else. I guess take 2 photos WITHOUT AEB, one with the moon, one with the e.g. cityscape/landscape correctly expose then merge in post??

You quickly covered the apps you use to plot the movement/location of the moon visa-vie where you are in the world. I am not familiar with these apps and I could not clearly understand the actual names. How about providing technical information in the notes for the video? That would be helpful in trying to find them in the App Stores. Thank you for all the videos - lots to learn and experiment with in terms of what topics you cover!

In the old days of film it was 1/125, f11, iso100, spot metering but in the days of digital we can experiment different ways because we are allowed to take so many shots which with film usually meant 24 a roll.. I did not hear or I missed did you use spot metering?

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Do you have a link to get the camera that was used?

Very weird, I use my 100-400L on a 5d3 and with a full moon and shoot up to 1/1250 at 5.6 with iso 100 using spot metering. Tonight I went out with about 1/4 moon and 100 iso, 5.6, 300mm at 1/80 on my m50 mkll with a 70-300L and it looked like crap, I always do it hand held with my 5d3 and sl2 but the M50 was not very good, just got it today so I'll have to re learn I guess.

Nice video Gordon, one of my favorite objects to photograph is the moon, this in all stages Hope on some clear nights around the 13th this month

Photographing the Moon it's very easy. This is all you need to do: 1) Take your phone 2) Go to the Moon 3) Take a photo and... voilà! Sure if don't want to go to the Moon, maybe be simply because you're too lazy, so follow exactly the instructions in the video.

Thank you for sharing your very interesting tutorial, may I ask a question? I purchased a kodak pixpro az421 16mp 42x zoom just over 1000mm would it be possible to take reasonable photos of the moon? Many thanks.

Excellent tips !! any ideas for this with cameras that are not mirrorless or dslr (like a Canon PowerShot SX50 HS?

What aperture do I need to capture the alien base station on the moon?

I had once taken a moon shot using my phone's digital zoom it didn't look that bad I coloured it in lightroom in a way that it looked like Halloween 🎃 themed so it came out good enough now people don't have a excuse of not having a camera

What programs you use to locate moon position on landscape. Thank you.

I saw a photo of the moon during a solar eclipse where the photographer managed to capture some of the moon’s detail right at the moment of totality. Have you ever been able to do this?

What app would you say is better for just solely finding where the sun will rise and set. And where moon will be etc. Without getting too technical for beginners

16:20 what about HDR photo?

What about white balance ?

Is there less heat shimmer in the hours before dawn than in the hours after twilight?

Well...tried this yesterday night (Oct. 31st) close to midnight w/ Sony A6300 and SEL 55-210mm & up to 20 seconds exposure. It didn´t even come close to your photos.

I have a Canon eos rp and just bought a Sigma 150-600mm lense. Any tips for settings to get good moon pics?

spot metering

Man, you look like Sting! :P

How to take more clear

Could you recommend a good telescope to a m43 user?

Nikon P1000 and you have 3000mm, done! 😁

Which app did you use to record your phone's screen?

Gordon is that the Huawei P30 Pro Smartphone you have.

You should add timestamps to your videos! It'll help a lot to viewers

Philip bloom wants to know your location 😂

Brighton Beach Victoria Australia??

I feel so stupid.. The obvious thing, the further away you get from something, the smaller it gets.. But there isn't really anywhere on earth you could go to get away from the moon to make that seem smaller.. So, yeah, taking a photo of the moon next to something far away makes the moon seem big... Super obvious.. but.. somehow seemed counterintuitive to my head at the same time.

too detail for beginners.

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