My Photo of the Lunar Eclipse
Posted Monday, March 5th, 2007 · Permalink
I had a fun time taking this one. A few friends and I drove up to the beach and I set up my tripod and took a shots with shutter speeds ranging from 1/500th to 5 seconds. We had a few beers in between shutter releases. Good times.
Yesterday I compiled my shots in Photoshop by superimposing the pictures to fit the path the moon took during the shots. Fred Espenak has detailed explanations of various lunar eclipse photography methods. He also has some great stuff on solar eclipses.
In addition to Fred’s site, Kottke points us to some other great shots from last night. Some of these guys must have had amazing lenses. Also, check out upcoming eclipses.
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1ianmack // March 5th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
brilliant photo! it was cloudy over in Vancouver so we didn’t get to see it at all.
2Willy Volk // March 6th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
That’s awesome.
I planned for weeks for the event, grabbed a bottle of wine and snacks, and cleared my memory card. I even headed to the beach 45 minutes early to set up.
And it was overcast as hell.
3Maryam in Marrakech // March 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Wowza. This is incredible. We have a telescope and watched the eclipse from the roof of our house in the Marrakesh countryside.
4Timen // March 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Thanks everyone for your positive response to my picture. It’s not the best one out there, but hopefully one day I’ll be good at doing this eclipse photography thing.
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