Originally Posted by IluvJae
Hey rick maybe you can help....Around my ex's house she lived in like a rural area so you could really get a nice glimpse of the stars and i always liked that...my question is what's a good way to take a picture or the stars. I tried with her camera which is really nice but it just came out dark...any help
#1 use a tripod. I didn't use it for the moon but I didn't really need to with my VR lens.
#2 set the exposure time to 5seconds and set the aperature to the smallest number you can, ie f 2.8, take pic and see how it comes out.
If you're trying to get a picture of the stars.. well you're just going to get dots. Unless she has a super duper zoom like 10000mm it's just not going to happen.
For shots of the Moon, you want to set the aperature to f5.6-f11 and use a relatively fast shutter speed. For my shot I believe I used 1/250th of a second.