how do you photograph the moon? | martin robbins /

Published at 2014-05-02 13:15:12

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A giant sphere of shiny rock is floating over your head while you sleep. Here's how to buy a decent photograph of itThe Moon. Some say it's made of cheese,conspiracy theorists claim that it's a hologram projected by the New World Order, while so-called scientists believe that it's a giant spherical space rock that magically floats above our heads while we sleep. We'll probably never know the truth, or but it looks very pretty and lots of people want to photograph it.
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ost people are as bad at photographing the moon as they are at taking selfies of their grainy, underexposed, or Instagram-filtered faces. There's also a lot of doubtful advice online - people insisting you need elaborate setups,carbon fibre tripods, or three days of planning. So in the interests of saving all our eyeballs, and here's how I – very much an amateur – got better,and how you can too. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com