RonFrank
Contributor
The full moon is basically a sunlight exposure (it after all is lit by the sun). So if you follow the sunny 16 rule, then exposure would be at ISO 100 1/100 at F16 which will likely underexpose a bit, but that would be a starting point.
I have some photo's of the blood moon I shot a couple years back at home. I'll dig them out and post.
The best way IMO to get a huge moon with a good foreground is to photoshop it. This is for two reasons, first you are almost going to certainly blow out the moon if one expects to get anything (even incadescent light from buildings) exposued properly in the foreground, and second when you use a wide angle lens to get in a good amount of foreground, the moon grows tiny.
In the days before PS I got some good environmental moon shots but it was generally using multiple flash shots to help illuminate the foreground. It was basically an excercise in wasting several rolls of film to get just one or two good shots, and in the end one still had to burn the moon, and dodge the foreground in most cases.
I have some photo's of the blood moon I shot a couple years back at home. I'll dig them out and post.
The best way IMO to get a huge moon with a good foreground is to photoshop it. This is for two reasons, first you are almost going to certainly blow out the moon if one expects to get anything (even incadescent light from buildings) exposued properly in the foreground, and second when you use a wide angle lens to get in a good amount of foreground, the moon grows tiny.
In the days before PS I got some good environmental moon shots but it was generally using multiple flash shots to help illuminate the foreground. It was basically an excercise in wasting several rolls of film to get just one or two good shots, and in the end one still had to burn the moon, and dodge the foreground in most cases.