Jock Elliott
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Troy, NY
I really need some advice on this. Maybe it's a dynamic range problem or perhaps a "difference between the human eye and the camera sensor problem, but here goes . . .
We're driving home last night, come around a corner start up a hill, and there's this absolutely HUGE full moon hanging just above the top of the hill. So I yank out the Canon G12 and start trying to capture it. When the camera does the exposure, the moon absolutely blows out . . . it looks like I'm trying to take a picture of the sun. When I try to get to control the focus and get some detail on the moon . . . the landscape disappears into total blackness.
I've tried this before with bigger and better cameras with very similar results. With a superzoom, I can zoom in the moon and get good exposure, but this results in what the spotter-in-chief says is a "scientific shot" of the moon. What she wants is a "romantic" shot of the moon . . . some detail on the moon and some detail of the landscape . . . the kind of thing your eye perceives when taking a moonlit stroll.
Is there any way to achieve this, short of a double exposure?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Cheers, Jock
We're driving home last night, come around a corner start up a hill, and there's this absolutely HUGE full moon hanging just above the top of the hill. So I yank out the Canon G12 and start trying to capture it. When the camera does the exposure, the moon absolutely blows out . . . it looks like I'm trying to take a picture of the sun. When I try to get to control the focus and get some detail on the moon . . . the landscape disappears into total blackness.
I've tried this before with bigger and better cameras with very similar results. With a superzoom, I can zoom in the moon and get good exposure, but this results in what the spotter-in-chief says is a "scientific shot" of the moon. What she wants is a "romantic" shot of the moon . . . some detail on the moon and some detail of the landscape . . . the kind of thing your eye perceives when taking a moonlit stroll.
Is there any way to achieve this, short of a double exposure?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Cheers, Jock