7 SIMPLE Moon Photography Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier

In this video I’m sharing 7 tips that will help you dramatically improve your Moon photography.

00:38 Tip #1: Design the photo ahead of time.
01:40 Tip #2: Plan your photos.
02:37 Tip #3: Get the size of the Moon you want relative to your subject.
05:54 Tip #4: Shoot in the right natural light.
08:14 Tip #5: Use the hyperfocal distance when focusing
11:09 Tip #6: Avoid vibrations
12:05 Tip #7: Bracket your exposure

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INSPIRATION
- What to Photograph in 2022
- The 36 Best Photos in 2021

PHOTOGRAPHY FUNDAMENTALS
- Understanding Natural Light: Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights
- Understanding Depth of Field (DoF) and How to Calculate it
- Understanding the Hyperfocal Distance
- Learn How To Focus at the Hyperfocal Distance in 1 Minute!

MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHY
- Milky Way Photography Planning
- Learn Milky Way Photography
- Milky Way Photography Masterclass with Alyn Wallace
- How to Post Process the Milky Way with Nick Page
- How to Calculate the Milky Way Photography Exposure Time
- Photographing the Milky Way with a Natural Arch

MOON PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan a Photo of the Next Full Moon with a Building
- How to Photograph the Moon with Foreground
- How to Get in Focus Both The Moon and The Subject
- Moon Photography Masterclass with Jennifer Khordi
- Photographing a Full Moon Silhouette from Another Galaxy

SUNSET & SUNRISE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan a Powerful Sunset Photo | When You Know the Date
- How to Plan Any Sunset Photo You Imagine
- How to Plan a Sunset Photo in a Valley | Or a Sunrise
- Photographing the Sun setting through the natural arch of Es Pont d’En Gil

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Landscape Photography with Nigel Danson
- Landscape Photography Post Processing with Albert Dros
- How to Edit Your Landscape Photography in Photoshop with Sean Bagshaw

LONG EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH LENS FILTERS
- Calculating Long Exposure Times Using ND Filters

SEASCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Seascape Photography Masterclass with Francesco Gola

METEOR SHOWER PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan Any Meteor Shower Photo You Imagine
- How to Plan a Photo of the Perseids Meteor Shower 2021
- How to Plan a Photo of the Geminids 2020
- Perseids Meteor Shower Photography Masterclass with Ian Norman
- Photographing the Perseids Meteor Shower with an Ancient Oak Tree

SOLAR ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan a Photo of the 2020 Total Solar Eclipse
- Annular Solar Eclipse Photography Masterclass with Joshua Cripps

LUNAR ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan the Total lunar eclipse with the Giza pyramids

STAR TRAILS PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan Any Star Trails Photo You Imagine
- How to Photograph Star Trails

CONJUNCTIONS
- How to Photograph the 2020 Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

TIMELAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Calculate Timelapse Settings

LEARN PHOTOPILLS
- How to Enable and Use the Widgets
- How to move the Red Pin of the Planner
- How to Save, Share and Import Plans and Locations
- Mastering the Load button of the Planner
- Calibrating the Augmented Reality Views
- Understanding the Map Buttons of the Planner

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Need help when planning or photographing the Moon? Comment below!
👉 To Download our Free Moon Photography guide:

[thierrygillard]

Your award section is really a killer. So much excellent stuff. Tough to grow up to the challenge. 😯

[richardbrown]

Really good video and very well explained 👍🏻

[brianloeffler]

Thanks for the step-by-step explanation! Very much appreciated!

[jcaff]

Thanks, Rafael, I'm shooting the moon rising behind the California Tower this February. The video will really help me and the other attendees. Photo Pills is the best investment I've made in photography (other than my time and effort).

[cguerrieri]

excellent as always, An additional tip, if you don't have (or forgot) your intervalometer or your cable release, you can always use the timer on the camera, just set it to 2 or 5 seconds and press the shutter to capture an amazing photograph.
I also play it extra safe, and use mirror lock up, to further reduce the chance of vibration on my dslr camera

Thank you for sharing!

[tburn]

Hi Rafael, it's a lot to digest in one go but at least we have you to go back and go through it again. I'm looking forward to planning a great moon shot at the end of my street. You explain it very well. It gives me confidence to use PhotoPills. - Tim

[rodtopperwien]

Really enjoying learning how to use the programme. Wish it was able to be printed to reread it all.

[zygmuntziokowski]

Great Tips and I will need to check out your Moon Photography Guide

[johnhillman]

As I found out to my cost, the lens hood on a long telephoto lens can act like a wind sail in moderately windy shooting situations. By the time I had realised why my photos were all blurring, it was too late to remove it.

[AngeloTullio]

Hi Rafael, and thanks for all you wonderful explainations! A question: is there a way to use Photopills app in a larger display like with a PC? I find the use in small displays like smartphones and tablets really a big pain... Thanks so much!

[cwitt]

Just wanted to thank you and all at PhotoPills for all the videos, guides and your constant enthusiasm and support. I really appreciate all that you do for the community.
If there is a 'fault', it's that things get a little long-winded for a 'hyper N Americans. But then, that's what scroll down is for, no?
Your being comprehensive is what helps everyone improve their pix.
So thank you so much!

[edtcempr]

This is really cool, but I only have the Pixel 6. It's possible to do it with that ??

[robertzurfluh]

Great video, thank you. Love your product and I learn something new every day.

One question about moon height though. Is the moon height displayed as measured from the bottom of the moon, or the center of the moon?

Watching and older video of the Olympic Rings in London, I noticed in the hand-drawn sketches, the moon height may be measured from the center of the moon?

If you covered the question already in one of your pdf guides I must have missed it. Sorry.

[Chalky]

Great video as always. I've nailed star trails and to some extent Milky Way ones as well. Moon plus city scape in one shot confuses me (old brain). Surely if you're one kilometre away from your lighthouse everything will look small. I can't get around the fact that the further you are away from a subject the smaller it gets You say focal length doesn't matter. Unless you mean position yourself 1km away then use a powerful zoom or telephoto focal distance?

[paulandpedro]

Is the moon height value measured to the center of the moon?

[JohnMacLeanPhotography]

9:33 you said 2.8, but the app says 8.0

[pmuk_kas_]

I like you lesson but I am not english nor american, I can't hear your english clearly sometime I don't understand.

[billyxxx]

Thanks for these useful tips! Moon guide downloaded 😎