Well, you all have covered it fairly well already but I might add my two cents. A tip I heard from another photographer and have come to better understand from personal experience- it is hard to shoot a full moon and get good detail because it is that bright. Using an ND filter could probably help with that, but I prefer to shoot when it isn’t quite full. A day or two on either side doesn’t make a lot of difference in the size, but can make much more difference in the total reflected light making it easier to deal with less ambient light. I have attached a couple of my better moon shots for illustrations. All three were taken with a Canon SX60HS (point and shoot with 65x optical zoom, equivalent of more than 1350 mm lens according to the approximation marks on the lens barrel) None of these have been edited
The one with the red maple in the foreground was taken late one afternoon in the fall of 2016. F7.1, Focal length 97.73, ISO 100, shutter 1/100. This one way to to use landscape to accent the moon. (I should have gotten the moon into the top right thirds intersection)
The “half” moon was in June of 2016, F8.0, Focal length 247.00 mm, ISO 100, shutter 1/60 This photo and the last one are more down the line of “get in close and let the moon speak for itself”. The last one should be sharper. The strong zoom does make it hard to get everything in focus. The depth of field is especially evident on the ‘half’ moon.
The nearly full moon is also from fall of 2016 F6.5, focal length 247.00 mm, ISO100, shutter 1/100
