While the official July 2021 Full "Buck" Moon was last night, I had clouds. Lucky for me, it was still almost full tonight. thanks for the good luck, it worked, I woke up at 3:30am, (not intended) looked out window, decided to take my shots, and then it went behind clouds 30 min later.
I've been aching to get the new camera out again for another moon shot, and tonight was my night.
This is a tighter crop in Photoshop, same picture as the first and third.
This was the original uncropped shot, the other two were Light crop and Heavy crop. That's one of the things I love about this camera, the original Raw file was 60MB, which allows me to do a pretty heavy crop without losing detail and still having a quality image.
For you other photo geeks out there, here is my setup for this shot.
This was at F14 1/60 iso125 and a -3step adjustment to keep the bright spots from blowing out the detail.
Sony A7R4, with 200-600mm lens + 2x TeleConverter, giving an effective 1200mm lens. Vantage tripod with swivel ball head (love that swivel ball and quick trigger to adjust). I also have a micro-adjust on the top it allows me to make micro-adjustments left-right and up-down that really helps center shots. I also use this at the range on my spotting scopes, it's awesome for bringing targets into view.
I learned a bit from my last shooting, and this one went a little more smooth. I used manual focus this time instead of auto, and also shot off a tripod with a remote trigger mechanism.
Here's what the setup looks like:
A little closer view:
Here's the remote, it's pretty handy. It has a remote shutter button, a 2 second timer button, and can even work the video (I haven't tried that yet).
And here's the top of the camera, with the stop adjustment knob on the far right. It's very handy, I often shoot my regular shots at -1 or -2 stops. This helps keep the meter from blowing out highlights, and then I can always easily adjust to lighten things up a bit in PS if needed.