Hi every body
I have a question, I hope my Photo Blog friends can help me.

When i want to take a picture from the moon at night after take the picture the moon looks full of light or i can see 2 moon in my picture(One of them full of light and other one the moon details), What do you think about it? What is the problem? How can i improve it?
I use Nikon D80 with 18-135mm lens and a tripod

Thanks so much beforehand

Hi Aghdam,
I think you need to expose according to the brightness of the moon. So if you have spot metering or center weighed measuring on your camera, measure the exposure needed from the moon and then set the values manually or use exposure compensation.

This is a frequent problem. There are usually two situations:
1) you want to shoot the moon on its own (in the sky, no landscape)
2) you want to shoot a moon low over a landscape.

In both cases, the problem is that the moon is very bright relative to its "surroundings", so you want a fast exposure (1/80th-1/200th) and a narrow aperture (f/8 - f/16). Your light meter will tell you that's too dark, but try it. If you want a more accurate light reading, use spot metering or centre-weighted metering, as yellodog suggests, but don't trust your light meter too much and use the long end of your zoom with your tripod.

In the second case, the best solution (used by the pros) is to take two shots, the first exposed like above for the moon itself, the second exposed for the landscape, and then superimpose the two in post-processing.

I explain this in more detail in this post. Sorry for the plug, it's one of mine.

Hope this helps.

Revenant

Thanks to all friends for their help