You should give us a quick lesson on how you did this. Mine was crap with the shitty kit lens, and the lack of remote trigger didn't help either.

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Okay, here goes

- Get hold of a long lens, 200mm with a 10mp camera seemed to be just good enough.

- Put on a tripod.

- Change to spot metering and meter on the moon itself.

- The earth's rotation seems to give noticable motion blur on exposures over 2/3 sec.

- When the moon was still visible and white, I set the camera to f5.6 and ISO100. The meter gave an exposure of 1/50 sec.

- For the images where it was red, I put the camera on manual and set it to 2/3 sec, f5.6 and ISO500.

- I then set the camera to self timer with a mirror lock up so that I could press the shutter release, let go, and then the mirror would go up and then a delay before the shutter opened so that I minimised shake.

- Finally, I opened the raw files in Photoshop, brightened up the red moon image and unsharp masked them all to crisp them up.

- Just as a side note, the originals were only double the size of these, literally about 300 pixels wide. If you have a lower resolution camera, you would need a longer lens, or a teleconverter.

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Ah yes, the good ol' self-timer, how can I have forgotten that?

I noticed that rotation problem too, makes you wonder how fast we are rotating!

I'm looking into getting a 70-300mm lens, It's gonna be either Sigma APO, Tamron or Nikon ED. Any suggestions? Seems like Sigma is the best buy.

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Oh, and did you have to darken the dark side of the moon?

This is the crap I took: [link]

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Richard

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Excellent stuff. Well done

I'd save up and get a 70-200, having a f2.8 lens is so much nicer than an f5.6, unless you can get one with VR. Unfortunately the Nikon 70-300 VR is rubbish
So yeah, a 70-200; Sigma like Alfred's or Nikon like Jozef's. Either that or get an 18-200 VR like mine, no need for any other lens ever rly

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Oh that is so lame, every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she’s a photographer
- Stewie Griffin

Actually that's just the way it came out from the camera, I think the exposure was too short so it didn't pick up the dark side.

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Oh that is so lame, every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she’s a photographer
- Stewie Griffin

Nicely done mate! I took one or two at 50mm then decided it was pointless so stopped

Shit, Alfred's going to sell/ has already sold his Sigma, right?

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