Don't make the moon into a white cake, teach you how to shoot the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It won't be long before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, our first reaction is family reunion, and the whole family gets together to eat moon cakes and enjoy the moon. At the same time, there are more and more friends who love photography. They like to take a photo of Zhang Yueliang on the Mid-Autumn Festival night as a souvenir, but they may not have taken a photo that they are very satisfied with after trying all night. So today I'm going to talk to you about the details you need to pay attention to when shooting the moon. The shooting environment is the most important. If you want to shoot the moon, there is a problem that cannot be ignored, and that is the choice of environment. Because we are going to shoot the full moon at night, if there are too many street lamps at the shooting site, there will be light pollution, which will make the photo not transparent enough and may cause serious glare. If we take pictures on the roadside, cars will often pass by, and the ground vibration will affect the shooting effect. The clouds in the sky should not be too thick (picture from the Internet). Then it is necessary to choose a relatively empty venue, and it is best to choose a suburb with relatively transparent air. The shooting environment is not limited to the shooting location, but also includes the shooting time. I suggest you start shooting after 8 pm. If the time is too early, the effect of shooting the moon may not be very good. Shooting equipment is very important. Many friends say that I just want to take a picture of the moon. Finding a camera and taking a telephoto lens can solve the problem. This idea is very wrong, because we need to use a long focal length when shooting the moon, and the shutter speed needs to be fast to ensure that the photo does not shake, so it is extremely important to carry a reliable tripod. The picture comes from the internet. In the choice of lens, I suggest that you choose a lens with a telephoto end of more than 300mm, because it will be very difficult to shoot with a telephoto end of 200 mm. At this time, we can only lengthen the actual shooting focal length by using a range extender. One more thing, everyone thinks that the picture quality of a full-frame camera will be better, but when shooting the moon, a non-full-frame camera can also be used for the simple reason that when a 200mm lens is installed on an APS-C SLR, the focal length is directly converted to 300+mm, so it is a good method to shoot distant objects with a non-full-frame camera. Everything is ready except where to shoot, when to shoot and what to shoot. Finally, let's talk about how to shoot. Exposure control is very important if you want to take a good picture of the moon. If you don't control the exposure well, you can only shoot a big white cake on a black background, and the three elements of a photo exposure are sensitivity, aperture and shutter. Then I will communicate with you from these three aspects one by one. First, sensitivity. Many people think that the sensitivity of shooting in a dark environment must be very high, but the brightness of the moon itself is actually very high, so we should adjust the sensitivity of the camera to a minimum, so that we will not only shoot the moon empty, but also try to avoid noise in the photo. If the exposure is not well controlled, the moon will become a white cake. After the sensitivity is set, it is necessary to decide how big the aperture is. Under normal circumstances, shooting with the maximum aperture is often not good enough, but applying a smaller aperture will produce serious diffraction phenomenon and affect the image quality. So when shooting, we try to use the aperture of F 1 1. We can use manual M file or aperture priority Av file to measure the moon on the spot. If we use other metering methods to take photos, it may lead to overexposure because the sky is too dark. In the post-computer and tips, we can use Photoshop software to import photos into the computer and make simple modifications. We can not only increase the contrast of photos to make the craters on the moon clearer, but also use highlight/shadow tools to further darken the brightness of the moon and make it more stereoscopic. When focusing, we try to use live view mode to enlarge the focus through the screen, but after all, shooting the moon is an upside-down angle, so it will be more convenient if we can use a camera with a flip screen. Through the above article, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of how to shoot the moon. Let me list the key skills above: shooting in an open and low light position, carrying a tripod and using a lens over 300mm, using a lower sensitivity and appropriately narrowing the aperture, and using spot metering. There are only a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and everyone must be looking forward to the arrival of August 15. As the saying goes, "The moon is not round on August 15th", but this year coincides with the roundest moon on August 15th, so what we have to do now is to hope that it won't be cloudy on the Mid-Autumn Festival, so that we can record the moon that belongs to us with our equipment.