I am planning to head out for a full moon shoot tomorrow night and was wondering if anyone had some tips to share. I'm planning on standing in the middle of a road (hopefully with few cars) so I won't have much time to fool around with my settings and such. I'm planning to do it as follows - any suggestions you have are appreciated.
-There will be no artificial light here other than minor light pollution, and it will be in a heavily shaded area in terms of trees. It is a full moon tomorrow night (well Saturday morning around 8am) at my location.
-Using Kodak's guide of full moonlight exposure (30s at f/2 & ISO 100) and extrapolating that to ISO 25,600, I plan to take some test shots on the side of the road at f/4 for 0.5s. I'll tweak it from there and then calculate the exposure at ISO1600 or 3200 & f/11. DOF is important for this shot. I'll opt for the 1D X on this, but might bring the 5DIII along as well if the exposure time is under 30s at ISO1600 or lower.
-I'm shooting for a medium exposure - not full ETTR, but not overly dark, either.
-I'm timing it so the moon will be roughly 30-45 degrees above the horizon (~2 hrs. after moonrise). This is a little higher than the recommendations I've seen (~1hr. after moonrise), but I need strong shadows for the shot and the trees may block the light until it's 20 degrees or so above the horizon.
-Composing/focusing via headlamp/LiveView. Not confident about this one at all.
-Setting manual white balance to 3000-4000K. From what I've read that should give it a slightly cooler look more closely representing the "look" of moonlight. Any other thoughts? And yes, I know it's reflected sunlight...
Any suggestions on shooting in the dark - and avoiding werewolves - would be much appreciated.
-There will be no artificial light here other than minor light pollution, and it will be in a heavily shaded area in terms of trees. It is a full moon tomorrow night (well Saturday morning around 8am) at my location.
-Using Kodak's guide of full moonlight exposure (30s at f/2 & ISO 100) and extrapolating that to ISO 25,600, I plan to take some test shots on the side of the road at f/4 for 0.5s. I'll tweak it from there and then calculate the exposure at ISO1600 or 3200 & f/11. DOF is important for this shot. I'll opt for the 1D X on this, but might bring the 5DIII along as well if the exposure time is under 30s at ISO1600 or lower.
-I'm shooting for a medium exposure - not full ETTR, but not overly dark, either.
-I'm timing it so the moon will be roughly 30-45 degrees above the horizon (~2 hrs. after moonrise). This is a little higher than the recommendations I've seen (~1hr. after moonrise), but I need strong shadows for the shot and the trees may block the light until it's 20 degrees or so above the horizon.
-Composing/focusing via headlamp/LiveView. Not confident about this one at all.
-Setting manual white balance to 3000-4000K. From what I've read that should give it a slightly cooler look more closely representing the "look" of moonlight. Any other thoughts? And yes, I know it's reflected sunlight...
Any suggestions on shooting in the dark - and avoiding werewolves - would be much appreciated.