How to shoot the beautiful scenery of Mid-Autumn Moon Night?

In two months, with the summer heat gradually dissipating, autumn, the best season of the year, is coming again. We will find that the sky is getting bluer and higher. When night falls, the moon, the nearest giant celestial body, gradually presents the most fascinating shape of the year. The beautiful scenery in the moonlight makes photographers unable to sit at home and can't help but pick up the camera to take this picturesque scenery. Although it is summer now, it is only rainy. Mastering some necessary photography skills first will make you come in handy when you want to use them. After all, you can't take good photos by studying photography and sharpening your knife on the spot. Therefore, it is necessary for us to learn how to shoot a beautiful moonlit night in advance.

When you go out to shoot the beautiful scenery of the moonlit night at night, it will be very helpful to bring the following equipment:

Camera capable of manually setting aperture size and shutter speed

A stable tripod

Wired release or wireless remote control shutter.

Standby battery

Suitable lens (later)

flashlight

Photographic record book

A camera bag that can hold all your equipment.

If this is your first time shooting a night scene with the moon, it may take you quite a long time, so bringing one or two cold-proof clothes may help you concentrate more on shooting.

camera lens

When we shoot the moon with the camera in our hands, we are often surprised to find that the moon is just a small white bright spot in the picture. This is incredible! However, if we use the following announcement to calculate the imaging size of the moon in the picture when shooting the moon with lenses with different focal lengths, we will not be surprised by the previous situation.

In other words, if we shoot the moon with a standard lens of 50mm, then the moon will only be a small point with a diameter less than 0.46mm in a 36x24mm picture. Even if the lens with a focal length of 200mm is used to photograph the moon, the diameter of the moon in the picture is only1.83mm..

Therefore, in order to see the Chu moon clearly in the picture, we'd better use a lens with a focal length greater than 200mm to photograph the moon.

Exposure; expose

If we directly expose to the moon and shoot according to the exposure value automatically calculated by the camera, then the final moon will become a round white spot, and the patterns and details that make us daydream will be gone! Why is this?

As can be seen from the above picture, even if the 800mm lens is used to shoot the moon, the moon only occupies a small area in the picture. And the lens in your hand may not exceed 300 mm In this case, the area of the moon in the picture is quite small, and the camera can only measure the light according to the large area of the dark sky on the picture to increase the exposure. As a result, the moon was exposed. So how can we photograph the details on the moon? I believe you know that we can see the moon because the sun shines on the surface of the moon and then reflects into our eyes. If it is a cloudless full moon in Wan Li, the exposure is equivalent to the exposure when shooting on the earth on a sunny day.

Full moon exposure reference value (aperture f/8)

Sensitivity (ISO) 50 100 200 400 Speed1/6011251/2501/500.

Referring to this table, we can set the sensitivity of the camera to ISO 100, then set the aperture of the camera to f/8 and the shutter speed to1125s to shoot. This can show the details of the moon well.

double exposure

However, now the problem comes again: the details on the moon are very good, but the scenery on the ground becomes dark and nothing can be seen. Why is this?

This is because when the sun falls below the horizon, the contrast between the moon and the ground will be very large. Although our eyes can see all the details, the camera can't record them, even the sky and clouds around the moon that we can see with our naked eyes.

Although the details of the moon and the ground can sometimes be photographed at the same time in just a few minutes after the moon rises, in most cases, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory results in one imaging. At this time, we can use the method of secondary exposure to create.

The second exposure shooting is simply to shoot the moon with the telephoto end of the camera during the first exposure and put the moon in the proper position of the pre-conceived picture; The second exposure took the moonlight.

Of course, you can get the same effect if you are willing to reverse the order.

Now let's take the following photo as an example to see how to use the secondary exposure function of Fuji 9600 to shoot.

First, set the camera to the multi-exposure state (Fuji 9500, Fuji 9600, Nikon D80, Nikon D200 and other cameras all have the multi-exposure function). Then, choose an exposure mode that can manually adjust the aperture and shutter. You can choose aperture priority, shutter priority or manual mode. If you are going to shoot the scene on the ground first, shoot it after normal metering.

When you take the first photo, the camera will automatically play back the photo you just took and prompt you whether to take the next photo or take it again. If you are satisfied with the effect of the picture you just shot, you can choose to continue shooting, and then the camera will return to shooting state, but at this time you can't see the picture you just shot, so you need to shoot according to the picture you originally conceived.

After that, the camera will automatically synthesize two photos, and then ask you whether to save, re-shoot or continue shooting. If you are not satisfied with the effect, you can cancel the shooting result and shoot again. If satisfied, you can confirm the save.

It should be noted that during multiple exposures, because the exposures are superimposed, the exposure of each photo should be less than the correct exposure. In addition, after selecting the multiple exposure mode, Fuji 9600 can't switch the exposure mode, and can only shoot all the pictures in the same exposure mode.

I also need to remind you that if you don't want two moons, one big, one small, one dark and one bright, you should pay attention to avoid the moon in this picture. As you can see in the photo below, although I consciously hid the moon behind the pavilion when shooting scenery on the ground, when I set the aperture and shutter, the moon rose rapidly and appeared on the edge of the top of the pavilion.

Of course, if your camera doesn't have a secondary exposure function, you can also shoot the scenes of the moon and the ground separately, and then get the final picture through post-superposition.

However, if you prefer to enjoy shooting, then don't miss the moonlit night of Mid-Autumn Festival!