Ever wish you could take a photo of the starry night and also capture landscapes at the same time? It's actually quite easy, and requires nothing more than a camera that can take long exposure photographs, a tripod, a shutter release cable and a clear night with lots of moonlight. Here's two examples of Moonscape photography that I took a couple years back, one of my backyard and one of my neighborhood:
Both of these pictures were taken of landscapes with the full moon to my back. The secret to these photos is that moonlight is nothing more than reflected sunlight, albeit, not much (3% I believe) but enough to illuminate foreground landscapes while not enough to wash out the stars in the sky. To take these types of photos, simply pick your landscape subject, preferable to use a wide angle lens (27-50mm), and with the moon to your back and with the camera on a tripod, simply take a long exposure photograph with your f-stop set to about f/8-f/22. Try bracketing your exposures, anything from 30 seconds to 15 minutes. I've noticed that with very bright moonlight, 30 seconds at f/8 is all that is needed to illuminate the landscape.
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