Took an evening to experiment with moonrise photography and took this one of the moonrise over Reed’s Lake in East Grand Rapids.
I think the key to moon photography is having a clear view of something interesting but far away to make a foreground. I only partially succeeded in this with the inclusion of some random house. A lighthouse would be ideal, really, but I live on the wrong side of the state for that.
Whatever the subject is, it needs to be distant so you can zoom in enough to make the moon prominent, as using a wide lens with leaves the moon tiny. Also, it is important that the foreground is at or beyond the hyperfocal distance (the distance where if you focus, everything beyond that is also in focus) of the lens setup you are using so that both it and the moon can be in focus.
Picture taken with Sony a6000, SEL 18-200 lens @ 200mm, 1/200 sec shutter, f/6.3, ISO 400
