You know one of the most satisfying thing you can possibly do in the world
of landscape photography, in my opinion, is to shoot a full moon rises in the
landscape, but the question is; how do you get a correct exposure for that full moon rising?
Adorama TV presents You Keep Shooting with Bryan Peterson
Hi I'm Bryan Peterson and I am the author of Understanding Exposure including
understanding how to set an exposure for the full moon that would be rising here
shortly in the landscape of Provence. Lavender fields ,three trees, distant
mountains and soon the full moon will be rising now what's important to note here
is that I'm not actually here on the night of the full movie instead I'm here
the night before the full moon and there's a reason for that. It looks darn
near full the night before and it actually begins to come up into this
landscape, that eastern direction I'm facing before the Sun to my West has
completely set and turn this landscape into darkness.
There's still enough light in the overall landscape here for me to set an
exposure and again that brings up the point; where do I set the exposure?
Well believe it or not I'm going to tilt the camera up here momentarily take a
reading off of that fading, what they call the blue hour sky to the east and set my exposure for that.
As far as the depth of field is concerned. The first concern I have here is not
a lot of depth of field issues, pretty much the shot that I'm going to shoot
finds everything at the same focus distance, with my tripod mounted D800E
and my Nikkor 70-300mm at about 260mm so at f16
in this case I set an exposure for that sky again it's not important that the moon
is here yet because the same sky will have that moon and it's not going to
change the exposure any, so at f16 with
200 ISO I'm getting exposure time; minus 1, by the way. I always want to do this at
minus 1 and subsequently 16 at a 15th of a second with 200 ISO is what the exposure is.
Now again clearly at a 15th, there is no way I can hand-hold that. That is
why I'm using the tripod so momentarily we're going to have our moon coming up
and when it does we'll make that picture f16 at a 15th, stay tuned.
So as you can now see back by those three trees up above those mountains
there's that small pinkish red moon that's what I'm going to be photographing.
Now the key to this is to set your exposure to the left or to the right of the moon.
You can have the moon shot not a problem, so in doing that I'm
finding out at f16 my exposure time with 200 ISO right now is 1/4
of a second and take a look and I think you'll agree that looks great so
now we use that same exposure back up with the landscape in the shot
as I'm doing right now,
going to straighten this out and just like that, self-timer once again,
manually focusing and I want to get that sharp, right there, looks fabulous and here we go again
and one, two, three click take a look at that photograph. Nice! I think
you'll agree it's really pretty simple let's review really quick; the moon is coming up,
take a reading off the blue sky to the left or to the right of the moon
use that same exposure not just for the sky but for the landscape below and you
get the results that you see once again here on the screen
beautiful Provence in the lavender fields of the balance or claim this is
Bryan Peterson saying; you keep shooting
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