Photographing the Supermoon on Film

VIEWER BEWARE.

This video sucks. The photos suck. I have no clue what I'm doing. Astrophotography is tougher than I thought.

On June 15, I read that there was going to be the Strawberry Supermoon (basically the moon looks bigger because it's closer to us, and strawberry because it's currently strawberry season or something), so I brought out my Minolta SRT-101 and 2 telephoto lenses (MC Tele-Rokkor 200mm f3.5 & Soligor 95-310mm f5.6).

PROBLEMS FACED:
1. Moon moves faster than I thought
I setup my camera on my tripod and composed the shot. Moon perfectly centred, all good.
I walked back to my bag to get my video camera to film some b-roll of firing the shutter. When I looked through the finder again, the moon was off to the side.

2. Telephoto lenses
I don't really use long lenses, so scoping around for the moon and trying to get it centred was a fun challenge. As per problem 1, I can't leave it on the tripod for too long either.

3. Composition
For some reason, I thought that going up 15 levels on a random building would make a difference. My shots were basically the moon and that's it. After looking online at other photos, many photographers framed the moon with buildings or trees or something.

Mine's just a moon. I could've pasted a Moon.png on a black background and it wouldn't look any different.
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Anyway, according to the Looney 11 rule, which states that to photograph the moon, you set your lens to f11, and your shutter speed to whatever's closest to your ISO speed, which in my case, was 200 [Kodak Gold]. So in my case, my settings would be 1/250 f11, which worked I guess.

I don't think a 200-300mm lens is long enough for the job though. To be honest, I like the footage I shot of the moon more than the crappy photos I took.

Thanks for reading & watching.

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