Took this last night in the park. It actually wasn't dark out yet but I adjusted the settings to capture details on the moon and not worry about the light in the sky. As the saying goes, shooting the moon is like shooting a light bulb and you really have to be careful not to blow out the highlights.
So I tried to underexpose it a bit, having overexposed in the past.
Camera & Settings: Nikon D5100, Nikon 70-300mm telephoto lens at 270mm, 1/1000th shutter speed, f/8 and ISO 160, -2 EV. It was shot as a jpeg and I processed in Lightroom. cropping about 90 percent of the original image. I could probably print it and get a perfectly nice 8 x 12 or so.
No tripod. The camera was handheld.
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--S.H.
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