How to shoot the moon

Learning to shoot the moon is relatively easy once you know how! Read on for tips on how to shoot the moon.

You will need a DSLR camera, a telephoto lens and a tripod isn’t a bad idea! So the equipment is pretty basic! I didn’t even follow my own advice and use a tripod! You might think you need a telephoto lens of at least 500mm, and while that may make things easier I shot this with my Canon 70-200mm IS II. I believe it worked without a tripod so well because of the amazing IS built into this lens. The moon is also very bright especially when its full so I shot at ISO 100.

I obviously shot at full zoom, 200 mm for my lens and really had to crop it out to get a decent moon picture. The original is shown below. You can see just how tiny it is! But with such a low ISO you an afford to zoom in so far. Obviously the quality isn’t as high as if it was shot with a 500 mm lens but for someone like me shooting the moon for fun its good enough! Eventually I would love to get a super telephoto zoom lens, but because they are generally a $5,000 minimum its going to have to wait!

Have any of you shot the moon before or are planning to? I’d love to hear about it if so! Comment below!