{"id":731,"date":"2013-07-23T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/731-day-570-our-celestial-neighbor.html"},"modified":"2013-07-23T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:42:00","slug":"day-570-our-celestial-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/731-day-570-our-celestial-neighbor.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 570, Our Celestial Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1115 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/570-_MG_7396.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere is really important tip to remember when photographing the moon.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;It&#8217;s not night time there where you are looking!&#8217;. The moon is in full sunlight and so the camera needs to told one way or another that a daylight exposure is required. It might not be a problem if you are using a 4000mm lens where you can fill the entire frame but for normal everyday lenses where a severe crop is required, normal camera auto exposure has no chance of getting it right. We are not talking about a few stops of correction here on the camera&#8217;s auto exposure but full manual control.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFortunately getting the exposure right is quite easy using the image preview and simply looking to see if you have captured lunar detail or just a big white blob. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 570, Our Celestial Neighbor&#8217; 1\/100 f\/14 ISO100 380mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Here is really important tip to remember when photographing the moon. &#8216;It&#8217;s not night time there where you are looking!&#8217;. The moon is in full sunlight and so the camera needs to told one way or another that a daylight exposure is required. It might not be a problem if you &#8230; <a title=\"Day 570, Our Celestial Neighbor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/731-day-570-our-celestial-neighbor.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 570, Our Celestial Neighbor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}