I’m not surprised they would look blank at the rule of 2/3rds. I though it was the rule of thirds. 🙂

Many on here have taken photos for many years so there is plenty of experience and useful advice. Some comment more accurate than others obviously.

Apochryphal I know but when I did some training with Air Canada a few years ago, the engineers called it the Embraer 180 as it normally taxied out did a 180 and taxied back to the terminal again…..

It looks like we do easily forget.

How easily we forget….

It was this that got us involved. I don’t remember much opposition either.

The reason we fight

I dont have a light meter havent needed one for anything yet and dont feel i will any time soon hahaha so any suggestions with light meters are a bit useless to me

You don’t need a light meter or a telescope or a spaceship or whatever. The picture you showed wasn’t far off the mark and only showed signs of being cropped severely. Use the lowest ISO you can, stop the lens to its best aperture (usually f8 or F11) and have a go. The beauty of digital is that you can take as many photos as you like.

All of the moon photos I’ve taken are with autofocus – in fact I rarely turn the AF Off.

Yes, the actual exposure would be a little brighter but when I processed the NEF files I pulled the exposure down about a stop or so to bring out the detail. If you use an evaluative type meter then the moon itself would end up being over-exposed by quite a bit.

Certainly for the night time shots I use spot metering so it ignores the rest anyway. The section of the image that “spot” uses is slightly smaller than the moon in the frame so I guess it exposes just the moon correctly. I think the daytime shots used normal evaluative metering.

M-O-O-N. That spells Moon

Auto I think. Generally the ones with odd apertures will be program mode, the F8 or F11 ones will be with aperture priority