{"id":4383,"date":"2015-03-05T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2015-03-05T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:36:08","slug":"moonlight-photography-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"Moonlight photography testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided that I was jumping the gun somewhat trying to do panoramic views by moonlight before getting the basics of moonlight photography sorted. So the other evening, with a bright, nearly full moon, I tried a few tests:<\/p>\n

\"moonlight<\/a><\/p>\n

This view was taken with the lens set to 15mm. The original exposure was very dark – the camera was set to 800ISI with 15 seconds @f5.6. Part of the rational for this series of tests was to determine if another lens would help (I have in mind a 24mm f2.8 ‘pancake’ lens which lets in more light but has a narrower field of view).<\/p>\n

So I set the lens to 24mm and increased the exposure to 30 secs. This was brighter but still needed brightening with the image editor:<\/p>\n

\"40mm<\/a><\/p>\n

Now I have a problem: does it look like a poor daytime exposure? A couple of clues are the faint stars in the sky, the orange glow of light pollution in part of the sky, and the 5 garden LED lights glowing a little (the batteries were running down by the time I went out). But the 24mm focal length (=39mm on a full format camera) was fine.<\/p>\n

As I had a \u00a3100 gift voucher (a thank-you from members of the group I ran workshops for) I decided to put it towards the cost of the pancake lens.<\/p>\n

I tried a different shot showing light from the windows of the house to see what that was like:<\/p>\n

\"nighttime<\/a><\/p>\n

This is still by moonlight but is more obvious with the light from the windows illuminating the lawn. No artistic merit but food for thought for future experiments…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided that I was jumping the gun somewhat trying to do panoramic views by moonlight before getting the basics of moonlight photography sorted. So the other evening, with a bright, nearly full moon, I tried a few tests: This view was taken with the lens set to 15mm. The original exposure was very dark … Continue reading “Moonlight photography testing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,78,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-night","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}