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 family get 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 picture of the moon in mid-autumn night to commemorate it, but they may not have taken a picture that they are very satisfied with after trying all night. So today, I will talk to you about what details we 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 want to shoot the full moon at night, if there are too many street lamps on the shooting scene, there will be light pollution, which will make the photos not transparent enough and may cause serious glare. If we take pictures on the roadside, there will be frequent cars passing by, which will affect the shooting effect after the ground vibrates. The clouds in the sky should not be too thick (the picture comes from the internet). Then we should choose a relatively empty venue, and it is best to choose a suburb with more permeable air. The shooting environment is not limited to the shooting location, but also includes the shooting time. I suggest that you start shooting after 8 pm. If the time is too early, the effect of shooting the moon may not be very good. The shooting equipment is very important. Many friends say that I just want to shoot a moon, so I can find a camera and take a telephoto lens to solve the problem. This idea is very wrong, because we need to use a long-distance focal length when shooting the moon, and the required shutter speed is fast to ensure that the photo does not shake, so it is extremely important to carry a tripod with reliable performance. The picture comes from the network. In the choice of lens, I suggest that you choose a lens with a telephoto end above 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, you can also use a non-full-frame camera for the simple reason that when a 200mm lens is mounted on an APS-C SLR, the focal length is directly converted to 300+mm, so it is a good way to shoot distant objects by using a non-full-frame camera. Everything is ready except where to shoot, when to shoot and what to shoot. Finally, we will talk about how to shoot. If you want to take a good picture of the moon, exposure control is very important. If you don't control the exposure well, you can only take 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 of all, the 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 the lowest, so that not only will the moon not be shot empty, but also the noise in the photo can be avoided as much as possible. If the exposure control is not good, the moon will become a white cake. After the sensitivity is set, it is necessary to decide how much aperture to shoot. Under normal circumstances, it is often not good enough to shoot with the largest aperture, but the application of a smaller aperture will produce serious diffraction phenomenon, which will also affect the image quality. Therefore, we try to shoot with an aperture of about F 1 1. We can use manual M-file or aperture priority Av file to spot-measure the moon. If we use other metering methods to take photos, it may lead to overexposure because the sky is too dark. In the later stage of the computer and Tips, we can use Photoshop software to simply modify the photos after importing them into the computer. 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 the moon more stereoscopic. When focusing, we try to use the live view mode and zoom in on the focus through the screen, but after all, shooting the moon is an upside-down angle, so it would be more convenient if we could use a camera with a flip screen. Through the above article, I believe that everyone has a certain understanding of how to shoot the moon. Let me list the above key skills: Choose an open and low-light position to shoot, carry a tripod and use a lens over 300mm, use a lower sensitivity and appropriately narrow the aperture, and use spot metering. There are only a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and everyone must look forward to the arrival of August 15th. As the saying goes, "The moon is not round on the fifteenth day of August", but this year coincides with the roundest moon on the fifteenth day of August, so all we have to do now is to hope that it won't be cloudy on the Mid-Autumn Festival, so that we can use the equipment in our hands to record the moon that belongs to us.