Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by Alex_Petrini:

Originally posted by Neat: I'm not sure if anyone else can see this, but I see all these blotchy marks like some serious banding around the left egg, is it my monitor or not, not sure??

I can see no banding (checked on 2 computers, one phone and one tablet). If you mean what is visible on the left, that is just the out or focus area. Anyways this was minimal, so no way to fix any kind of issues :)

Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by Neat:
I'm not sure if anyone else can see this, but I see all these blotchy marks like some serious banding around the left egg, is it my monitor or not, not sure??

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by kiwinick:
well put good idea

Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by tome:
Very interesting! I want to know more about the process.

Red night
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by HarveyG:
"If your weather and location cooperate, shoot the total eclipse of the moon."
I must say I'm disappointed Alex.
You're weather cooperated but your location did not. This is not a question of bending the rules (or even the perceived lack of understanding/grey area of the description), art, artistry and later justification of DMC/DNMC and Forum Fights, but your integrity.

Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by Devinder:
getting the eggs in the same plane while blurring out the flag in the middle - i would have thought some tilt shiftyness but not so eh?

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by MEJazz:
I envy you, you get to visit this place!

Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by PennyStreet:
Nice. Inventive. My highest score.

Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by Jules1x:
Interesting. I love the half lit egg.

Red night
by Alex_Petrini

Comment by tome:

Originally posted by hahn23: Doesn't look like any total lunar eclipse I've ever seen. And, I've seen a few and photographed several. How about you? Voters were deceived.

Amateur astronomer for 35 years here. Naturally, I've seen many eclipses and this could definitely look like one, with some added processing for fanciness. In fact, your image, which I rated higher because you included context (Spica), can look exactly the same with some small amount of processing. Of course that's not how it looks in the sky, but still a good one - astrophotography is not always about faithful reproduction. That's why I think Alex's photo is an interesting effort.

I don't think it's fair to speak about voters other than yourself. And anyway, if you say you know how an eclipsed Moon should look and this is not it, then I guess you were not deceived by this photo.

By the way, Spica is not an optical but a spectroscopic binary star (this is for the comment on Wendy's photo), so you can't tell if it is a binary from looking at a photo.

Sorry Alex for abusing this space...