I've been playing around with taking photos of the moon and the first thing that jumps out at you is that your light meter and suggested shutter speed is way off. If you use these settings your image will be completely blown out. Only by trial and error was I able to get the proper exposure and sadly it required me to bump the shutter up to the point that the little arrow in the viewfinder was maxed out on the under-exposed side and had begun to flash (meaning I was no longer able to count the number of stops below the suggested exposure).
So my question is this - is there way I can predict the proper exposure w/o having to bump the exposure arrow some random number below the point at which you can still count the steps? Or maybe I should rephrase my question and ask how to you meter a subject like the moon against a black background like the night sky and get the proper exposure? Yes, I think that's the right question to ask.
Btw - I also tried altering the EV as far as 2.0 w/o achieving a good exposure so it seems at this point simply lowering the exposure by some unknown number of stops seems the way to go. Maybe a combo of both EV and shutter speed will at least allow me to count the stops but hopefully there's a better way than this.
So my question is this - is there way I can predict the proper exposure w/o having to bump the exposure arrow some random number below the point at which you can still count the steps? Or maybe I should rephrase my question and ask how to you meter a subject like the moon against a black background like the night sky and get the proper exposure? Yes, I think that's the right question to ask.
Btw - I also tried altering the EV as far as 2.0 w/o achieving a good exposure so it seems at this point simply lowering the exposure by some unknown number of stops seems the way to go. Maybe a combo of both EV and shutter speed will at least allow me to count the stops but hopefully there's a better way than this.