Shot of the moon with a 400 mm lens
Same 400 mm lens but shooting a dime on the ground.
Actually, this is a really great question that I got this week from a fellow shooter.
Basically, your camera just shot what it really did see. Meaning that in your photo, the moon is really that small.
Why does it look bigger to us? Well truth be told, when we put a bright object on a black background, our mind automatically removes the black background and we tend to concentrate more on the main focus of the subject, For example, when we see a really big moon in the sky, our minds have subconsciously removed all the “extra” black and we only see the moon itself.
To give you a reference point to compare it to…..if you shoot the moon with a specific camera and then drop a dime on the floor and take the same shot, both the dime and the moon would be approximately the same size in each photo. The shots above were both done with a 400 millimeter lens. Interesting, eh?
So, how big does your lens have to be to get a full frame shot of the moon? The size of a really large telescope should do the trick.
Thanks for the question, Andrea! Keep them coming.
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