So toward the end of my vacation, and in attempting to take pics of the new (maybe waning) moon tonight, I messed with shooting in a RAW format. Many of my sunrise pictures, and even full daylight fast shutter speed shots, had a lot more "grain" and image noise to them.
I had set the ISO up a bit higher for the sunrise shots, but I had done that before as well with no problem, but I chalked all the noise up to that anyway. Tonight, though, shooting the moon, I went with the same settings I had used on the near full moon my last time around, bracketed a bit with different exposure levels, came in... and NOISE! I made 3 or 4 more trips outside before remembering the RAW, changed it back to JPG FINE mode and got crystal clear photos again without changing any of the other settings.
Can anyone help out a confused rookie??? What am I doing wrong?
I had set the ISO up a bit higher for the sunrise shots, but I had done that before as well with no problem, but I chalked all the noise up to that anyway. Tonight, though, shooting the moon, I went with the same settings I had used on the near full moon my last time around, bracketed a bit with different exposure levels, came in... and NOISE! I made 3 or 4 more trips outside before remembering the RAW, changed it back to JPG FINE mode and got crystal clear photos again without changing any of the other settings.
Can anyone help out a confused rookie??? What am I doing wrong?