Multiple Moon Montage

In all the shots, I used ISO 100, a tripod, and prefired the shutter to prevent image shake.

Lens: 75-300mm @ 300mm

Bottom Moon:

Av 5.6 / Tv 1/90

Exposure Compensation -1.5

Full Moon Shot:

Av 5.6 / Tv 1/350

Exposure Compensation: -2

Unlike most of my D60 images, these shots are almost at full resolution, because the moon is so small in the frame, even at 300mm.

Nice capture! I am pleased that you chose the different phases at top and bottom, instead of 'identical' waxing and waning phases. To me, it shows that you were (once again) thinking and not just shooting, including after the event in your digital darkroom. I find it interesting that your images clearly show us that the Full Moon phase is the most unexciting time to take photographs of our largest satellite (you can see I'm desperately trying to avoid using the "Moon" word too often...). During the "Full" phase, the light from the Sun is coming down to the lunar surface at 90 degrees and there are no shadows, resulting in an overall flat look. The other phases show us quite a lot of interesting detail near the terminator (border between night and day). 300mm would give you an effective magnification of 6 times, still quite small indeed...

Well done, Chris!

Here is an example of what these look like full frame. I figure that the 300mm lens * 1.6 for the D60 makes the effective lens 480mm, which makes these 9.6 X shots of the moon.

Thanks for correcting me, Chris. I was ignorant of the fact that the D60 has a 1.6 magnification factor... Using a slightly bigger lens, I obtained *this* view of the Moon... ;-)