The moon is hard to shoot

moonDude, the moon is not easy to shoot, especially the first time.  A few things I realized and learned… you need a pretty long lens, like a 500-600mm to get a good shot of it.  I used my 200mm and it looked pretty small on my LCD screen.  Luckily I have 10 megapixels to work with.  The next thing I learned is, you need a pretty fast shutter speed to capture the moon.  The above picture was taken with a shutter speed of 1/8000 sec.
moon2Look at how small the moon was out of the camera even at 200mm.

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