honestly, those conditions won’t happen very often.
One solution is to shoot with large bodies of water
in the image because they can act as reflectors.
There is also a simple method for taking a land-
scape shot with the moon in the frame: use a
piece of black board positioned so that the moon
and the sky are covered and take the photo with
settings that will expose the landscape. You then
remove the board for the last second or two of the
exposure. It isn’t a perfect system, but it can
work, especially if you are facing the moon. If you
don’t cover the moon, and the scene is exposed
for longer than a few seconds, the moon will have
moved and then you end up with a moon like
that in Figure 10-7, a weird looking oval instead
of a clear, sharp-edged moon.with the shutter speed and the ISO to adjust. The
easiest way to get enough light into the scene is
to just leave the shutter open for a long time; how
long depends on the brightness of the moon and
any other light in the scene. This works great
unless the moon is actually in the scene because if
you expose the scene for the landscape, then the
moon will be overexposed. Also, the moon is
moving, so it will no longer appear sharp. The
key is to set up the shot where the moon illumi-
nates the scene but isn’t actually part of the
scene.
The perfect conditions would be a light colored
landscape such as a desert or sandy hill with a full
moon because the light color of the landscape
reflects the light the moon provides. However,
ABOUT THIS PHOTO The moon in this night scene doesn’t look particularly good because the moon moved during the exposure. Taken at
79 seconds, f/16, and ISO 200.
10-7