We were celebrating the birthdays of my niece and my brother when Dekker discovered the balloons! We had so much fun watching him chase this big yellow one and spend a very long time trying to get a helium balloon down to his level by pulling the attached string.
Later that night I also decided to try another go at shooting the moon. I took the Sunny 16 Rule advice (and used a little help from Google) to get it properly exposed this time and was thrilled not to have the moon blown out! However, I was disappointed that the surrounding clouds weren't visible in the shot, especially since they really added to the beauty of the scene. It seems if I want the clouds to show up I have to blow out the moon, and if I want good detail on the moon I have to lose the clouds (there weren't a lot of them this time around). Anyone know how to get both? Oh it probably goes without saying but I cropped the moon image quite a bit. By the time I got my settings right it had moved higher in the sky and wasn't quite as big and bold as when it first came over the horizon, and the article I found online said it was better to crop than over zoom for detail.
Later that night I also decided to try another go at shooting the moon. I took the Sunny 16 Rule advice (and used a little help from Google) to get it properly exposed this time and was thrilled not to have the moon blown out! However, I was disappointed that the surrounding clouds weren't visible in the shot, especially since they really added to the beauty of the scene. It seems if I want the clouds to show up I have to blow out the moon, and if I want good detail on the moon I have to lose the clouds (there weren't a lot of them this time around). Anyone know how to get both? Oh it probably goes without saying but I cropped the moon image quite a bit. By the time I got my settings right it had moved higher in the sky and wasn't quite as big and bold as when it first came over the horizon, and the article I found online said it was better to crop than over zoom for detail.
Nikon D5100 - ISO 800, s/s 1/60, f/2
Nikon D5100 - ISO 160, s/s 1/160, f/10
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