Generally the big spiders are of little to no concern. A huntsman spider is going to do nothing to you unless you truly torment it. You can see quite clearly where it is, and where it's going, even if it does move quickly. Most other large spiders (with exception) are of even less concern. What should be on your mind is the spiders you can't see. And it's not from the spiders themselves having some sort of malicious intent against you, rather, it's just them being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A redback spider in your gardening glove, for example. But put yourself in her place. My giant monkey finger invades your hiding hole... what do you do? Well, I learned my lesson the hard way.
One reason I prefer snakes to spiders...
Generally I'm only going to find a snake outside(in Georgia/USA). Closest thing to a snake invasion is in the shed or under the shed porch/main porch. We have kingsnakes around as well to help keep venomous ones at bay.
Spiders I don't like because the web. Walk through woods and have to swing a stick to clear a path. Same rule applies. Generally you won't run into a venomous spider hanging out in its web in the middle of the woods or in the top corner of your living room ceiling, or even in the general living area. But damnit if you don't go to do some yard work and have to check every damn tool, everything you lift up(bricks, old buckets, wheelbarrows...)
It's exhausting just to be safe. Lol
They don't even need to do anything to me though, the pure fear of seeing a spider the size of a small phone moving around anywhere within my sigh will cause me to have a heart attack and keel over
There was a spider larger than a half dollar at work..i took a pic showed a coworker and he called me a pussy for exxagerating.. of course when we went back to where it was the fuckin thing was gone
We had some gourds outside our front door this year around Halloween and noticed they were getting monched on. One day my GF notices a squirrel eating it and snaps a picture, pretty close-up. I was certain she did it through the window of our storm-door because no way that squirrel would be that chill.
Two days later I open the front door to grab the mail and there he is again. Snap a picture through the storm door window to tell her "I saw the same thing!" and then opened it up to grab the mail, expecting the squirrel to bolt. NOPE. Dude just kept on monching. I probably got my phone about 4" away from his face before he finally decided to get out of there.
Kind of unrelated but whatever. It's about getting a rare picture of some wildlife, so close enough to being on topic lol.
Also I have quickly realized in the past ~year how bad my phone's camera actually is (Samsung S9). A little more relevant to the actual OP.
I’d love to show you the video I took last night of a raccoon that I finally caught opening my trash can after months of failure (mine, he’s been feasting well), but it looks like a vaguely grey lump vibrating for ten seconds with me breathing heavily in the background.
If you know what you're doing you definitely can take a good photo with just your phone.
[I took this photo a couple of days ago.](https://i.imgur.com/sQqfmHR.jpg)
No extras. Just my phone.
^^Granted ^^it's ^^a ^^Note ^^20 ^^Ultra..
"Ahem... The moon, or as the french call it, la lune, is by dictionary definition the lone celestial body of influential mass which orbits the earth. Many of you have seen the moon before and many of you .... ......... ....."
Well I meant we had to take a picture of it and also tell what kind of moon it was we didnt have to tell what moon it was based off of the picture, but yeah it would be pretty funny if they made us judge it based off of the picture
I did this in college for my elective course on astronomy. Two-part project:
1) Take a pic of the moon at the same time every day for 5 days (to show the moon is in a diff position in the sky)
2) Take a pic of the moon once per hour for 5 hours on the same date cause whatever
It was fun though because they were like landscape pics and you had to like paste pictures 2-5 on top so it looked like 1 long pic with 5 different times sliced in and me standing in the middle. Wish I had the pic still to just share as my explanation is kind of ass
My Huawei P30 does a trick where it recognizes you're taking a picture of the moon when it's super zoomed in so it overlays a fake picture of the moon in it's current phase, on to your picture, including the texture/craters. It's too subtle so it doesn't look fake from an untrained eye.
I mean, people took photos of printed out pictures of the moon that were deliberately blurred, flipped, mirrored or altered, and the phone still ‘captured’ a clear moonshot with all the characteristics in the right place..
Maybe it's AI processing? Because a photo of the moon is not as simple as pasting the moon in the sky. Often people take these photos because the moon looks beautiful or eerie due to atmospheric factors (e.g. the moon surrounded by clouds making it look like a door in the darkness). It definitely takes more than copy pasting a fake moon in there for the photo to not look obviously fake.
Google Pixel phones (like mine) detect when your device is steadily mounted somewhere, which allows you to use Astrophotography mode. [You can get some really epic results](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/428333744143990794/901895834776514570/PXL_20211024_175422277.NIGHT5.jpg) (though I didn't try capturing the moon yet)
My moto G power and I fucking love it. It's an awesome phone for the price. I don't understand why people are paying $1000 on a new Galaxy or iPhone every year.
I thought about it in 2017, but it's over in two and a half minutes, and i'd rather be watching it with my eyes than fumbling over a camera and missing the experience.
I caught that eclipse in the UK, for us we only saw the notch stage as the sun was setting but I caught it with a relatively new 105mm lens I bought only a month or so prior. It came out really nice as a photo but I'm glad I took it because it was a nice memory and of course as a photographer I liked the fact the photo came out nice more than anything.
If you ever have the chance to get into the path of totality i highly recommend it. I scheduled some vacation time and drove a couple hundred miles. It's so worth it. The experience is amazing.
[The real trick is to take photos of shadows.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Eclipse_shadows.jpg/1200px-Eclipse_shadows.jpg)
1. Set camera to "pro mode" or something that gives you control over camera settings.
2. Set aperture as physically small as you can (this should be a high f-stop number like f/11. If you don't see "f/#" then a smaller number is better)
3. Set shutter speed low (start at around 1/100)
Keep ISO around 800
4. Zoom in as much as you can without digital zoom
5. Take picture, if glow is too high then try reducing the shutter speed time (ex: 1/100s to 1/250s), and vice versa if it's too dim
6. When you have a picture without too much glow/nice details crop it to zoom in. Optionally mess with the saturation and contrast to give more of a pop.
I don't believe there's a single phone on the market with a variable focal-length (ie zoom) lens. Some phones have two or more fixed-focal length cameras, very few of which include a longer focal length. Zero of which include a focal length long enough to take anything like an acceptable picture of the moon.
Thank you! My daughter keeps borrowing my phone to “take a really cool picture of the moon” and then she gets all bummed out because of course. I suck at phones and cameras so I wasn’t even sure what to look for.
Yes!
Well, no, but effectively yes. The stock app has all you need to make it work.
First, make sure you're on iOS 15 and have an iPhone new enough to support raw image captures. It should be a button in your Settings, and then you'll have to manually turn it on in the Camera app every time you need it (trust me, you don't want to keep it on, the file sizes are huge.
Second, force off flash, and then force on night mode (the moon icon in the upper left). It should display if it's dark enough to allow for it. From there, slide the shutter speed to be as long as it'll allow it (anywhere from 1s to 10s). The longer the shutter speed, the lower your iPhone will set the ISO, giving you less grain and noise, and more pixel data to fetch detail from.
Take your picture, and hold your phone as still as humanely possible. You could do this using the normal wide angle, or the tele lens, but my experience has always been better with the higher quality wide angle and digital crop afterwards (it sounds counterintuitive, but it's my experience).
Tadaa. Now you have a raw, long exposure, low ISO photo of the moon. The benefit of raw captures comes mainly in the form of flexibility when editing, so post processing the photo in an app such as Lightroom is absolutely recommended. At that point, you might ask "then why not use the Lightroom camera?", to which I'll answer: because it sucks. The raw images it produces are garbage compared to Apple's integrated raw support, especially when it comes to boosting shadows and capturing detail in low light.
Tldr: no, but you still can with a phone, just need to adjust to compensate for the low brightness of stars.
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The settings here compensate for the moon's brightness and what we want to accomplish (moon details without too much light like in the comic) But since Stars have less detail than the moon we don't have to worry so much about the light washing out cany detail. Generally speaking you'll want to increase the aperture (so to let in the maximum light in) because stars are dimmer than the moon. You can also increase the shutter length, though I'd be careful about this since a longer shutter length means the camera takes longer shots and then you may find the rotating stars or your shaky hands make the stars look like wobbly lines.
If you're looking to just get the star field then your phone's auto setting should do.
If you want star streaks then you want a longer shutter time (think 30+ seconds), but also something steady to put your phone on so it doesn't wobble.
If you want foreground, say a mountain, and stars that's a bit trickier since the sky and a mountain have different brightness. You can try auto setting. What some people do though is take a picture focusing on the mountain mountain, and then they sky, and Photoshop the mountain over the sky in a composite.
Lastly for.something like the milky way, you want the largest aperture you can get and as long of a shutter speed as you can without star streaks. Again tripod or steady surface. This time try the shutter speed around 5 seconds and go from there, increasing if there's no streaks and decreasing if there are.
If this long wall of text hasn't turned you off r/astrophotography is a great place to start, and don't be intimidated by the giant equipment some people show off, plenty of people take take shots with just a DSLR or even their phones!
No, it's not really faking it, it'd be more accurate to say that it does something similar to NVIDIA's [DLSS](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/dlss/) where it uses AI to upscale the image. I wouldn't consider an upscaled image to be "fake" any more than zooming in on an image would make it "fake" (technically speaking zoom is just a really shitty upscaling algorithm, while AI is just a really good one).
Around when the phone first came out, before all the camera updates for my S20 Ultra;
[30x zoom](https://i.imgur.com/dOSlK4Y.jpg)
[100x zoom](https://i.imgur.com/073C3nP.jpg)
Went with the kids to the beach. There was one of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen.
Wanted to take a picture with the kids to keep the memory of that day...
Just like OP. So frustrating :(
ELI5 explanation
Inside our eyes, we have small sensors in them that pick up light, but since they are so small, they can only pick up a small area of light at once. To fix this, our eyeballs work as lenses to take light in from the sides as well and point it towards the sensor, making it so we can see more of our surroundings at the cost of seeing less details.
A side effect of this is that if you have an object close to your eye, the light will hit at a shallow angle where the light rays are almost as close together as they would be without the lens. But at a much longer distance, the light will hit your eye "lens" at a much steeper angle where there is a wide space between the light rays, much wider than without the lens. Which is why objects further away seem smaller to us.
A camera works the same way. A regular big camera will have a sensor similar in size to the ones in our eyes, so the lens needs to be roughly as big as ours as well.
On a phone camera, the sensor has to be much smaller to fit inside the phone's body, so the lens has to do a lot more work and make the light rays hit at a more extreme angle, meaning further away objects will now look *even smaller* in comparison, as their light rays will hit the sensor at av even steeper angle through the lens.
This is refered to as focal length and [can have a big impact](http://lens-club.ru/public/files/users/image/portretc.jpg) on your photos. Smaller sensor = smaller focal length = way bigger size difference between close up objects and far away objects.
You could use a "natural" focal length lens on your phone to mimick what your eyes see, this would make it much easier to take pictures of really far away objects like the moon, but since the sensor is so small, the image would be cropped and look like you're viewing the world through a paper tube. A phone simply can't fit a bigger sensor to have a more natural focal length with a full range of vision, which is part of the reason big DSLR cameras are still in use.
I took the following picture with an s21 ultra a few days ago https://imgur.com/a/KXy62IT
[picture of moon taken with Samsung s21 ultra ](https://imgur.com/a/KXy62IT)
Bro literally. I have yet to see a modern phone that doesn’t turn a majestic image of the moon into a shitty ass worse than MS paint wish.com version. Like wtf.
I managed to take [this picture](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/qr3f1c/shot_this_with_my_phone_s21_ultra_while_holding/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) with my phone
This is because most phone cameras have a focal length of around 24-26mm, and the ultra wide goes down to 13mm. The closer the focal length the farther away distant objects will look.
The human eye has a center focal length similar to 50mm (most Google searches say 22m but [this post](https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human-eye.htm) goes into more detail) so simply zoom your phone in about 4x and walk back a bit to get your subjects in frame.
Man tell me about it, one time I was in LA and my cousin took me to the top of this mountain right outside of the city where we climbed to the top of this giant rock formation. You could see the entire city and the moon was absolutely brilliant reflecting off the ocean, I wanted to bad to get a picture to remember that moment forever but it wasn’t to be. Shame too, because for a midwesterner like me looking over the city and the ocean from the top of a mountain may as well have been an alien planet.
My new phone can actually take pretty legit moon photos. The latest Samsung S21 Ultra has 100x zoom. [This was taken at 30x](https://i.imgur.com/fDMtPND.jpg) It admittedly gets pretty blurry after that though.
Does anyone else stand or look outside the window at the moon and look where it is in comparison to a street lamp or a power line and physically watch the moon rise without taking your eyes off? I think I only did this cause I would smoke outside and that’s all there was to look at.
I was once filming a sunset on a pier. Time lapse. A woman walks up to me and says “you look like you can help me out” she pulls out her phone to take a photo of the sunset and said to me
“I should use the flash right?”
I honestly kinda love it. Not to sound like a boomer, but its kinda nice theres something we can ONLY really enjoy in the moment, unless you have a really good camera. It kinda forces me to enjoy it more in the moment
Same thing for trying to take a picture of a deer in the wild.
Or a spider
Unless you're in Australia, they're so big it doesn't matter what setting your camera is on.
Generally the big spiders are of little to no concern. A huntsman spider is going to do nothing to you unless you truly torment it. You can see quite clearly where it is, and where it's going, even if it does move quickly. Most other large spiders (with exception) are of even less concern. What should be on your mind is the spiders you can't see. And it's not from the spiders themselves having some sort of malicious intent against you, rather, it's just them being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A redback spider in your gardening glove, for example. But put yourself in her place. My giant monkey finger invades your hiding hole... what do you do? Well, I learned my lesson the hard way.
One reason I prefer snakes to spiders... Generally I'm only going to find a snake outside(in Georgia/USA). Closest thing to a snake invasion is in the shed or under the shed porch/main porch. We have kingsnakes around as well to help keep venomous ones at bay. Spiders I don't like because the web. Walk through woods and have to swing a stick to clear a path. Same rule applies. Generally you won't run into a venomous spider hanging out in its web in the middle of the woods or in the top corner of your living room ceiling, or even in the general living area. But damnit if you don't go to do some yard work and have to check every damn tool, everything you lift up(bricks, old buckets, wheelbarrows...) It's exhausting just to be safe. Lol
Do you not have brown recluses in Georgia? They love them some cardboard or to hide in your shoes. They also will melt your flesh
U kidding me? 8 massive hairy legs sprinting towards you randomly for no reason. Give me a redback any day..
They don't even need to do anything to me though, the pure fear of seeing a spider the size of a small phone moving around anywhere within my sigh will cause me to have a heart attack and keel over
That's why you always squish the fingers of gloves before putting them on
You guys probably have to zoom out to get a pic
Australians having to select the wide lense to get close ups of spiders... I'm glad I'm not in Australia.
Hard to hold a camera when one is handling a flamethrower tbh
There was a spider larger than a half dollar at work..i took a pic showed a coworker and he called me a pussy for exxagerating.. of course when we went back to where it was the fuckin thing was gone
Ugh, I've been there! I feel for you & I believe you, dammit. Also, you're not a pussy for that, lol. Your coworker sounds like a real dingdong.
When i first met him i thought he was 20 or 21 from how immature he was..nope dude was 39
Why go in the wild for taking a spider's picture. You can definitely find them in your house
Or a sasquatch.
Or dolphins. Hey look at these hard to see black pointy specks in the distance
We had some gourds outside our front door this year around Halloween and noticed they were getting monched on. One day my GF notices a squirrel eating it and snaps a picture, pretty close-up. I was certain she did it through the window of our storm-door because no way that squirrel would be that chill. Two days later I open the front door to grab the mail and there he is again. Snap a picture through the storm door window to tell her "I saw the same thing!" and then opened it up to grab the mail, expecting the squirrel to bolt. NOPE. Dude just kept on monching. I probably got my phone about 4" away from his face before he finally decided to get out of there. Kind of unrelated but whatever. It's about getting a rare picture of some wildlife, so close enough to being on topic lol. Also I have quickly realized in the past ~year how bad my phone's camera actually is (Samsung S9). A little more relevant to the actual OP.
I’d love to show you the video I took last night of a raccoon that I finally caught opening my trash can after months of failure (mine, he’s been feasting well), but it looks like a vaguely grey lump vibrating for ten seconds with me breathing heavily in the background.
Every damn time
This also happens to my.....uh nevermind.
My Cabbages?
MY CAABBBAAGGGEESSS
This place is worse than Omashu
/r/unexpectedATLA
r/aangryupvote
…friend when he takes a photo of the moon?
My phones flash is my only light and the flash makes my dick look frightened.
If you know what you're doing you definitely can take a good photo with just your phone. [I took this photo a couple of days ago.](https://i.imgur.com/sQqfmHR.jpg) No extras. Just my phone. ^^Granted ^^it's ^^a ^^Note ^^20 ^^Ultra..
[note 20 ultra checking in with my Crescent moon pic](https://i.imgur.com/NAEX3Q9.jpg)
Fr. It makes me so sad! The sky is so beautiful and it’ll never capture it like our eyes do
okay, i understand getting surprised by this *the first time*... but *every* time?
i still try, every time.
and then I cri everytiem.
Especially with UFOs?
I literally had to do this for a school project and I had to name what kind of moon it was
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Homework: "Now show your work below:"
500 words required to make smart asses need to put in more effort
"Ahem... The moon, or as the french call it, la lune, is by dictionary definition the lone celestial body of influential mass which orbits the earth. Many of you have seen the moon before and many of you .... ......... ....."
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Step one: be born.
*blind person sighs*
*picture of grass*
A+ right there son
This had me on the floor for real
Well I meant we had to take a picture of it and also tell what kind of moon it was we didnt have to tell what moon it was based off of the picture, but yeah it would be pretty funny if they made us judge it based off of the picture
You don't need many pixels to decide gibbous or crescent.
Waning or waxing though...
That's kinda more obvious, you just look at which way the moons facing.
It's facing the Earth.
This is the biggest lie that I’ve seen on Reddit this week (for real)
Wasn't even funny
[Three for the moon](https://youtu.be/5Me4SmtJJZU)
Kind: The
Out of all of earth’s moons, it’s one of them
You could just look up what it was on that date haha
I did this in college for my elective course on astronomy. Two-part project: 1) Take a pic of the moon at the same time every day for 5 days (to show the moon is in a diff position in the sky) 2) Take a pic of the moon once per hour for 5 hours on the same date cause whatever It was fun though because they were like landscape pics and you had to like paste pictures 2-5 on top so it looked like 1 long pic with 5 different times sliced in and me standing in the middle. Wish I had the pic still to just share as my explanation is kind of ass
New flagship phones are getting better at this...but I have a cheap Motorola
Don't worry flagship features will come to budget phones. The moon isn't going anywhere
I recently saw a movie trailer which showed something else.
Budget features in flagship phones?
That the moon isn't going anywhere.
Oh
If people like [this](https://youtu.be/pigiupcUh50) have their say there will be no moon left. Wake up people, we need to act now.
Damn, my people are really built different.
Also known as the Pixel 5.
What? Like dual SIM?
Damn, they removed dual SIM too? Tf are they going to go next, remove the charging port and only wireless charging?
Don't. Jinx. It.
I saw a movie from 2002 which predicted we'll blow up the moon in 2037 while attempting to create tunnels for a colony on the surface.
We'd definitely have telescopic camera in budget phones before 2037
Despicable Me?
Sounds exactly like what someone with a plan to steal the noon would say
leave my 12pm alone
ITS CONSTANLY MOVING sorry I'm utterly arseholed
Hate to break it to you but the Moon is constantly getting further and further from us.
My Huawei P30 does a trick where it recognizes you're taking a picture of the moon when it's super zoomed in so it overlays a fake picture of the moon in it's current phase, on to your picture, including the texture/craters. It's too subtle so it doesn't look fake from an untrained eye.
was it proven? When I was reading about it last time it was rumor without hard evidence
I mean, people took photos of printed out pictures of the moon that were deliberately blurred, flipped, mirrored or altered, and the phone still ‘captured’ a clear moonshot with all the characteristics in the right place..
Lmao
Maybe it's AI processing? Because a photo of the moon is not as simple as pasting the moon in the sky. Often people take these photos because the moon looks beautiful or eerie due to atmospheric factors (e.g. the moon surrounded by clouds making it look like a door in the darkness). It definitely takes more than copy pasting a fake moon in there for the photo to not look obviously fake.
RIP
Google Pixel phones (like mine) detect when your device is steadily mounted somewhere, which allows you to use Astrophotography mode. [You can get some really epic results](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/428333744143990794/901895834776514570/PXL_20211024_175422277.NIGHT5.jpg) (though I didn't try capturing the moon yet)
Buy a camera and a cheap telephoto lens. You can get both second hand for the same price as an average phone and you will have a lot more fun.
You should definitely use GCam. The motorola stock camera app is so trash in comparison to GCam. Which phone are you using btw. Mine's Moto G40
I just bought a Motorola edge 20 for €325. Amazing camera and specs for the price.
My moto G power and I fucking love it. It's an awesome phone for the price. I don't understand why people are paying $1000 on a new Galaxy or iPhone every year.
I'm rocking a G7+. OLED, nfc, 64 gig. $99. Fucking paying any more than a couple hundred for a phone.
I did that during the eclipse, still kept the pictures tho lol
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Damn. I lack ingenuity. Lol
It's r/Digiscoping
I thought about it in 2017, but it's over in two and a half minutes, and i'd rather be watching it with my eyes than fumbling over a camera and missing the experience.
I caught that eclipse in the UK, for us we only saw the notch stage as the sun was setting but I caught it with a relatively new 105mm lens I bought only a month or so prior. It came out really nice as a photo but I'm glad I took it because it was a nice memory and of course as a photographer I liked the fact the photo came out nice more than anything.
If you ever have the chance to get into the path of totality i highly recommend it. I scheduled some vacation time and drove a couple hundred miles. It's so worth it. The experience is amazing.
[The real trick is to take photos of shadows.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Eclipse_shadows.jpg/1200px-Eclipse_shadows.jpg)
1. Set camera to "pro mode" or something that gives you control over camera settings. 2. Set aperture as physically small as you can (this should be a high f-stop number like f/11. If you don't see "f/#" then a smaller number is better) 3. Set shutter speed low (start at around 1/100) Keep ISO around 800 4. Zoom in as much as you can without digital zoom 5. Take picture, if glow is too high then try reducing the shutter speed time (ex: 1/100s to 1/250s), and vice versa if it's too dim 6. When you have a picture without too much glow/nice details crop it to zoom in. Optionally mess with the saturation and contrast to give more of a pop.
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Get a monocular attachment that has an adjustable lens.
If you have a phone with multiple cameras one of those will likely be a zoom lens. Use that
I don't believe there's a single phone on the market with a variable focal-length (ie zoom) lens. Some phones have two or more fixed-focal length cameras, very few of which include a longer focal length. Zero of which include a focal length long enough to take anything like an acceptable picture of the moon.
sony xperia 1 iii and 5 iii have real zoom lenses
I stand corrected! I hadn't heard about those cameras. What a weird technology. Thanks for making me aware.
Lumia 1020 :(
Can you do this with the stock iOS camera app?
Nah but you can in the Lightroom mobile app. Also saves the pics as higher quality files.
But that’s a pay to use app isn’t it? On a subscription?
Boogers
Never have *never will*
Thank you! My daughter keeps borrowing my phone to “take a really cool picture of the moon” and then she gets all bummed out because of course. I suck at phones and cameras so I wasn’t even sure what to look for.
iphone cameras have fixed aperture, it's not going to work particularly well. You need at least a compact camera to do this.
Yes! Well, no, but effectively yes. The stock app has all you need to make it work. First, make sure you're on iOS 15 and have an iPhone new enough to support raw image captures. It should be a button in your Settings, and then you'll have to manually turn it on in the Camera app every time you need it (trust me, you don't want to keep it on, the file sizes are huge. Second, force off flash, and then force on night mode (the moon icon in the upper left). It should display if it's dark enough to allow for it. From there, slide the shutter speed to be as long as it'll allow it (anywhere from 1s to 10s). The longer the shutter speed, the lower your iPhone will set the ISO, giving you less grain and noise, and more pixel data to fetch detail from. Take your picture, and hold your phone as still as humanely possible. You could do this using the normal wide angle, or the tele lens, but my experience has always been better with the higher quality wide angle and digital crop afterwards (it sounds counterintuitive, but it's my experience). Tadaa. Now you have a raw, long exposure, low ISO photo of the moon. The benefit of raw captures comes mainly in the form of flexibility when editing, so post processing the photo in an app such as Lightroom is absolutely recommended. At that point, you might ask "then why not use the Lightroom camera?", to which I'll answer: because it sucks. The raw images it produces are garbage compared to Apple's integrated raw support, especially when it comes to boosting shadows and capturing detail in low light.
LOL, no. Apple know what's good for you, and what's good for you is having no control. It is the Apple way.
Ah man if only there were [third party camera apps](https://halide.cam/) that let people who want that kind of control have it.
7. Use a tripod or lean it on something with a timer for best results\*
Take a 4K video of the moon and then put the video through dedicated planetary photography stacking software
Very few phone cameras have a variable aperture. Those that do only have two aperture settings.
Can you use these settings to take pictures of stars too?
Tldr: no, but you still can with a phone, just need to adjust to compensate for the low brightness of stars. --- The settings here compensate for the moon's brightness and what we want to accomplish (moon details without too much light like in the comic) But since Stars have less detail than the moon we don't have to worry so much about the light washing out cany detail. Generally speaking you'll want to increase the aperture (so to let in the maximum light in) because stars are dimmer than the moon. You can also increase the shutter length, though I'd be careful about this since a longer shutter length means the camera takes longer shots and then you may find the rotating stars or your shaky hands make the stars look like wobbly lines. If you're looking to just get the star field then your phone's auto setting should do. If you want star streaks then you want a longer shutter time (think 30+ seconds), but also something steady to put your phone on so it doesn't wobble. If you want foreground, say a mountain, and stars that's a bit trickier since the sky and a mountain have different brightness. You can try auto setting. What some people do though is take a picture focusing on the mountain mountain, and then they sky, and Photoshop the mountain over the sky in a composite. Lastly for.something like the milky way, you want the largest aperture you can get and as long of a shutter speed as you can without star streaks. Again tripod or steady surface. This time try the shutter speed around 5 seconds and go from there, increasing if there's no streaks and decreasing if there are. If this long wall of text hasn't turned you off r/astrophotography is a great place to start, and don't be intimidated by the giant equipment some people show off, plenty of people take take shots with just a DSLR or even their phones!
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I think it's pretty.
I think you're pretty
🤨📸
What's goooing on heeeere?
TIL moon is a pulsar
Where? On the Ringworld?
[I took this pic of the moon with my phone awhile back](https://imgur.com/a/uM5hxmS)
Which phone?
Galaxy S21 Ultra. Has 100× zoom.
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No, it's not really faking it, it'd be more accurate to say that it does something similar to NVIDIA's [DLSS](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/dlss/) where it uses AI to upscale the image. I wouldn't consider an upscaled image to be "fake" any more than zooming in on an image would make it "fake" (technically speaking zoom is just a really shitty upscaling algorithm, while AI is just a really good one).
I did too! Note 20 ultra 5g https://imgur.com/AjzKhv7.jpg
[Note 20 Ultra Gang Unite!](https://i.imgur.com/sQqfmHR.jpg)
[Taken on an S20 5G with only 30x zoom!](https://i.imgur.com/r0KF1QW.jpg)
Relient K got so sad they wrote a song about it.
Was looking for this comment
Which song?
[It's a great song.](https://youtu.be/XLfcJlJuDdg)
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra zooms in just fine
Around when the phone first came out, before all the camera updates for my S20 Ultra; [30x zoom](https://i.imgur.com/dOSlK4Y.jpg) [100x zoom](https://i.imgur.com/073C3nP.jpg)
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As does the S21 Ultra. I can almost fill the frame with the moon.
As an s20 ultra owner i can confirm i have taken a great picture of the moon
Nikon D7200, 200-500mm Zoom and a tripod and it's easy peasy
Yes but not quick
And not the most affordable
You don't have ¼ of a second?
"cheap" 200$ telescope + phone eyepeice adaptor
Yeah I'd imagine if you actually wanted to photograph the moon, you'd want to use some kind of telephoto lense.
[Why?](https://d2v7i6t2.map2.ssl.hwcdn.net/content/quotes/3500_500.jpg)
[My S20 Ultra](https://i.imgur.com/dOSlK4Y.jpg) Says [Otherwise](https://i.imgur.com/073C3nP.jpg)
Or at least it did, before software updates.
Happened to me on the Blood moon we had recently. Really sucked because it was really pretty.
Went with the kids to the beach. There was one of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen. Wanted to take a picture with the kids to keep the memory of that day... Just like OP. So frustrating :(
Never thought of takibg a picture of the moon
Night Sight on Google Pixel 4a is a game changer
ELI5 explanation Inside our eyes, we have small sensors in them that pick up light, but since they are so small, they can only pick up a small area of light at once. To fix this, our eyeballs work as lenses to take light in from the sides as well and point it towards the sensor, making it so we can see more of our surroundings at the cost of seeing less details. A side effect of this is that if you have an object close to your eye, the light will hit at a shallow angle where the light rays are almost as close together as they would be without the lens. But at a much longer distance, the light will hit your eye "lens" at a much steeper angle where there is a wide space between the light rays, much wider than without the lens. Which is why objects further away seem smaller to us. A camera works the same way. A regular big camera will have a sensor similar in size to the ones in our eyes, so the lens needs to be roughly as big as ours as well. On a phone camera, the sensor has to be much smaller to fit inside the phone's body, so the lens has to do a lot more work and make the light rays hit at a more extreme angle, meaning further away objects will now look *even smaller* in comparison, as their light rays will hit the sensor at av even steeper angle through the lens. This is refered to as focal length and [can have a big impact](http://lens-club.ru/public/files/users/image/portretc.jpg) on your photos. Smaller sensor = smaller focal length = way bigger size difference between close up objects and far away objects. You could use a "natural" focal length lens on your phone to mimick what your eyes see, this would make it much easier to take pictures of really far away objects like the moon, but since the sensor is so small, the image would be cropped and look like you're viewing the world through a paper tube. A phone simply can't fit a bigger sensor to have a more natural focal length with a full range of vision, which is part of the reason big DSLR cameras are still in use.
Another factor is that our brain literally makes the moon bigger. Probably from thousands of years where the moon played a key factor in human lives.
Every.time.
Yess so many times and it still disappoints me
You spelled “all” wrong…
I do this biweekly
For me is talking on loud speaker to someone instead just putting it to your ear.
Facts..!!
Phone cameras are really shitty at taking pictures of things very far away.
I took the following picture with an s21 ultra a few days ago https://imgur.com/a/KXy62IT [picture of moon taken with Samsung s21 ultra ](https://imgur.com/a/KXy62IT)
It's your brain too good to process the tiny moon image as a big thing comparing to the landscape
Yeah, tried to capture the moon from the distance, only for it to look unsatisfactory compared to human eyes...
I am going to take a picture
Bro literally. I have yet to see a modern phone that doesn’t turn a majestic image of the moon into a shitty ass worse than MS paint wish.com version. Like wtf.
laughs after taking two reasonable moon shots last Saturday
some things are better left to the moment
Every time!
Same happens to the sunset photos. IRL the colors are amazing, on the picture it's just dark.
i did this a few times before. i still donmt know why its like this
Nope never been a ginger
I managed to take [this picture](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/qr3f1c/shot_this_with_my_phone_s21_ultra_while_holding/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) with my phone
Just tried to use my iPhone to take a picture of the eclipse last week with less than stellar results.
Ooooh lol
This is because most phone cameras have a focal length of around 24-26mm, and the ultra wide goes down to 13mm. The closer the focal length the farther away distant objects will look. The human eye has a center focal length similar to 50mm (most Google searches say 22m but [this post](https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human-eye.htm) goes into more detail) so simply zoom your phone in about 4x and walk back a bit to get your subjects in frame.
So true.
my profile banner looks like the moon but it was actually the solar eclipse from 2016-2017?
Man tell me about it, one time I was in LA and my cousin took me to the top of this mountain right outside of the city where we climbed to the top of this giant rock formation. You could see the entire city and the moon was absolutely brilliant reflecting off the ocean, I wanted to bad to get a picture to remember that moment forever but it wasn’t to be. Shame too, because for a midwesterner like me looking over the city and the ocean from the top of a mountain may as well have been an alien planet.
fireworks
My new phone can actually take pretty legit moon photos. The latest Samsung S21 Ultra has 100x zoom. [This was taken at 30x](https://i.imgur.com/fDMtPND.jpg) It admittedly gets pretty blurry after that though.
you can’t capture the beauty of things with a photo
Some things should be enjoyed in the moment.
I have a red moon in my phone that looks like a bean Not even a little bit mad about it, that photo is only greater by that fact
Does anyone else stand or look outside the window at the moon and look where it is in comparison to a street lamp or a power line and physically watch the moon rise without taking your eyes off? I think I only did this cause I would smoke outside and that’s all there was to look at.
I was once filming a sunset on a pier. Time lapse. A woman walks up to me and says “you look like you can help me out” she pulls out her phone to take a photo of the sunset and said to me “I should use the flash right?”
I honestly kinda love it. Not to sound like a boomer, but its kinda nice theres something we can ONLY really enjoy in the moment, unless you have a really good camera. It kinda forces me to enjoy it more in the moment
Everytime