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12/11/2011 03:18:21 AM · #1
I didn't go all out (as in driving to a decent location so my images are merely "documentation".) It was 12 degrees (F) and I was frozen after this set regardless of my appropriate dress. It was already pretty bright and the moon set right at full eclipse.



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12/11/2011 12:16:16 AM · #2
Yup. I live just north of Sofia and had a wash out. Set my camera up the night before, got up at 5 AM to take shots of it at full eclipse right when the moon was supposed to set here and saw nothing but fog! Crap.
12/10/2011 04:27:16 PM · #3
i wish we were able to see it. right when the moon was going to turn colors clouds came in and hid it. (stupid clouds...)
12/10/2011 03:30:25 PM · #4
It was fabulous to watch. As there are lots of trees around our house, I went into the street behind, watched it until it was almost over, when it disappeared on the horizon behind the trees. Next time I know to drive somewhere else to watch it. At least I was accompanied by some of the neighbours horses snorting away.

Will need to put a converter on the Xmas list I think! I haven't processed my photos yet, as I have other things to do, having overslept after going back to bed!!
12/10/2011 02:47:16 PM · #5
Great lunar eclipse shots, everyone! My results don't match up to the outstanding shots posted in this thread. However, I was trying to accomplish the placement of the eclipsed moon in the proximity of the ground (without using a photoshop trick). In this case, the mountains west of Walden, CO were just right, as was the timing of the event. The problem.... and the thing I learned... is that this situation involves a rapidly brightening eastern sky. As a matter of fact, when the moon reached full eclipse from my shooting spot at 7:06 am MST, it vanished because the sky brightened a bunch just prior to the 7:20 am MST sunrise.

With a black sky, I would have been fine. But, with the brighter bg sky of dawn, the viewing and photography of the shadowed moon became impossible. The linked image was captured at 6:54 am MST.

12/10/2011 02:16:41 PM · #6
Nice website, lots of nice shots!

And great shots of the Eclipse of course.

Originally posted by heavyj:





Pre-eclipse

12/10/2011 02:09:21 PM · #7
Originally posted by sfalice:


I started out with the 70-300 and realized almost instantly the tiny pictures were not worth the effort.


LOL, yep. It's even worse when you try it with a 70-200 on a full-frame camera :-P
Heck, I could use a 400mm lens with a 1.4x converter and I'd still have a slightly wider framing than you.

ETA: Great photos all... even though I couldn't photograph it, it was nice to live vicariously through the wonderful community that is DPC!

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12/10/2011 02:07:37 PM · #8
Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Something in the sensor or settings ... mine gets a blue cast ...


That blue cast is probably real... check out this page. Paragraphs 6 and 7.

Oh! I like that explanation much better! Um, I see that explanation belongs to Paul, not my little arcs.
:(

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12/10/2011 02:05:37 PM · #9
Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by sfalice:


I'm still questioning the green reflection(?) that showed up when trying for longer exposures to get moon color. Anybody know why?


Hi Alice!
Sure looks like a ghost image to me. Caused either by an internal reflection in the lens, or reflection off of the rear surface of a filter. The two keys are the fact that it's inverted from the "parent" light, which is the brightly lit portion of the moon, and the fact that it appears higher in the frame when the moon is lower (and further right when the moon is further left).

ETA: No joy here... nice clear, cold morning, but of course moonset was too early, the eclipse occurred well after the moonset here.


Aww, shucks. I was hoping for something from the 4th dimension. but this does sound logical.
By the way, I didn't include notes, but all except the first couple were taken with the 100-400 Canon.
I started out with the 70-300 and realized almost instantly the tiny pictures were not worth the effort.
12/10/2011 02:04:41 PM · #10
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Something in the sensor or settings ... mine gets a blue cast ...


That blue cast is probably real... check out this page. Paragraphs 6 and 7.
12/10/2011 01:59:28 PM · #11
Originally posted by sfalice:


I'm still questioning the green reflection(?) that showed up when trying for longer exposures to get moon color. Anybody know why?


Hi Alice!
Sure looks like a ghost image to me. Caused either by an internal reflection in the lens, or reflection off of the rear surface of a filter. The two keys are the fact that it's inverted from the "parent" light, which is the brightly lit portion of the moon, and the fact that it appears higher in the frame when the moon is lower (and further right when the moon is further left).

ETA: No joy here... nice clear, cold morning, but of course moonset was too early, the eclipse occurred well after the moonset here.

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12/10/2011 01:54:12 PM · #12
Lots of experimenting here this morning and a fun exercise. Lucky for me the main attraction was right outside my window, but still a little high in the sky.
I'm still questioning the green reflection(?) that showed up when trying for longer exposures to get moon color. Anybody know why?

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12/10/2011 11:42:41 AM · #13
I let Isaac "sleep in" just a bit, so it was already pretty crowded, with the shadow covering over half the Moon by the time I got to my favorite vantage point in the Oakland hills. There were several other folks with cameras/tripods up there as well.

There was already haze forming on the horizon, but only some very this wispy clouds up where the Moon was. Glow near the horizon from the city lights of Berkeley, Albany, and Richmond behind the hills.

All of these pictures are just resized and sharpened with IrfanView, except the panorama which was first stitched with AutoStitch, and the shot of the viewing crowd, which I quickly edited with Photoshop to open up the dark foreground.



One problem with shooting the eclipse is the wildly different exposures needed for the lit and shadowed parts -- HDR would be good, but tricky because the shadowed area needs either a much longer exposure (leading to motion blur) or significant ISO shift.



I saw this plane heading in the right direction, snd I was hoping it would cross right in front of the Moon, but when I saw it would miss I backed off the zoom a bit and got it in the frame; the other shot is the next one at maximum (436mm) zoom ... the haze and motion blur from the long (5 second) exposure show ... dawn was breaking by the time we left.

12/10/2011 11:21:35 AM · #14




Pre-eclipse



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12/10/2011 10:45:47 AM · #15
I got up, went out back, looked at the moon, thought "how pretty!", went back to bed. :-)
12/10/2011 10:25:10 AM · #16
It is total outside now and the moon just came up. Clear skies . looks great but the camera is home

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12/10/2011 10:12:22 AM · #17
I've been looking forward to this one for a few weeks. In our area, the moon was supposed to be fully eclipsed at the time it set, about 7:45 AM. I planned this out, found a good location, woke up, dressed warm (it was about 6 degrees), got in place, and watched the clouds move in. Oh well, I got this shot, but not much more. The eclipse had just begun, you can see a bit of the moon nipped out in the upper left side...
12/10/2011 09:27:56 AM · #18


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12/10/2011 06:56:17 AM · #19
Originally posted by heatherd:

What is the best setting to use on the camera to get that red effect. I always mess it up somehow when taking moonshots


The "red effect" is caused by the quality of the atmosphere the sunlight is shafting through, and will vary depending on the viewing point. (That's a very unscientific explanation, and possibly not totally correct.)
12/10/2011 03:52:57 AM · #20
What is the best setting to use on the camera to get that red effect. I always mess it up somehow when taking moonshots
12/02/2011 04:58:59 PM · #21
There is a total Lunar Eclipse coming December 10, 2011; folks in the western US will have a bonus in that the Moon will be near setting at the time of totality, and will look "super-sized" by the "Moon Illusion."

If you click on the map linked in the article you will see an animated movie of how the event should look from your location, and even better there are links to free software to create such animations yourself.

Message edited by author 2011-12-02 16:59:22.
06/17/2011 03:42:07 AM · #22
Here it is as it was in Okinawa (it was too cloudy in the rest of Japan).
If your computer doesn't read Japanese script, just click the play button on the video at the right.
06/16/2011 08:45:33 PM · #23
Re- original post. I always set the alarm in my cell phone for 1/2 hr before any event like that, which is often because I like to see the Space Station as it flies over. It gives me just about enough time to get out to a place where I can shoot some photos.
I managed to get some good shots of the last total eclipse that we had here in Fl a couple of years ago.

06/16/2011 08:37:40 PM · #24
Wow, great shots by highnooner and bcenu!
Well done for getting up in time. I look forward to the next one in December, it is around midnight so more chance of seeing it and it is in summer so should be good viewing.
06/16/2011 01:21:35 PM · #25
Im waiting to see if any turn up in the tripod challenge. Chile's view was supposed to be amazing with the volcano ash turning the moon blood red.
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