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<blockquote data-quote="John!" data-source="post: 8965" data-attributes="member: 2489">the moon is illuminated by what? The sun, just like everything else on earth during the day. therefor to get a proper exposure of the moon you need to use normal daylight exposure, the sunny F16 rule or an exposure similar to that. that will get you images of the moon in a black sky. The problem is just that, everything else is black. It is impossible to get a properly exposed moon and night landscape in one exposure. BUT, you can use a double exposure. Here is a few of my moon landscape shots1.<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4418687889_03a6bf208a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />2.<img src="http://nikonites.com/gallery/files/2/4/8/9/_nd31965.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />What I did was set my camera to multi exposure. I believe most Nikon DSLRs can do this. Expose the landscape using a long exposure appropriate to the scene WITHOUT the moon in the frame, then recompose the frame with the moon included in the appropriate location in the frame using a much shorter exposure I believe in this case it was using the f16 rule plus 1/3 stop. All this on a tripod of course.Hope this helpsJohn</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John!, post: 8965, member: 2489"] the moon is illuminated by what? The sun, just like everything else on earth during the day. therefor to get a proper exposure of the moon you need to use normal daylight exposure, the sunny F16 rule or an exposure similar to that. that will get you images of the moon in a black sky. The problem is just that, everything else is black. It is impossible to get a properly exposed moon and night landscape in one exposure. BUT, you can use a double exposure. Here is a few of my moon landscape shots 1. [IMG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4418687889_03a6bf208a.jpg[/IMG] 2. [IMG]http://nikonites.com/gallery/files/2/4/8/9/_nd31965.jpg[/IMG] What I did was set my camera to multi exposure. I believe most Nikon DSLRs can do this. Expose the landscape using a long exposure appropriate to the scene WITHOUT the moon in the frame, then recompose the frame with the moon included in the appropriate location in the frame using a much shorter exposure I believe in this case it was using the f16 rule plus 1/3 stop. All this on a tripod of course. Hope this helps John [/QUOTE]

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