Lunar Eclipse Pictures
A few shots of the lunar eclipse I shot 08-27-07.
“At a Lunar Eclipse
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon’s meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of imperturbable serenity.”
–Thomas Hardy At a Lunar Eclipse (1903)
by RidesAPaleHorse
images: RAPH
Source: Lunar Eclipse Pix
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Those are great! Would you care to share what your camera settings were and what lens you used?
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Thanos,
Thanks for your reply.
Wish I could give you more information than I actually have but here’s what I do have.
Pics were shot with a tripod mounted Nikon D-50 set to “large/fine” .jpg format with a Guardforce SR-732 Zoom Spotting scope. (15-45X65mm) mounted to the camera body via adapter and activated with a remote control to eliminate shake.
This was an experiment I’ve wanted to do for a long time, film cameras making it cost prohibitive. I shot over 300 frames before I got this series. There’s about 40 other photos in this series so I just picked the ones here as representative of the event.
Since there is no aperture setting for the scope, the only other setting I had to work with was shutter speed and since, for some reason the camera didn’t record that information and I, unfortunately, didn’t record it anywhere either (duh) I can’t tell you anything other than it was set to manual and I just shot about 10-15-20 frames at a time until I got the resolution (manual focus of the scope was also an issue) and brightness/contrast I wanted. Additionally, I did tweak the brightness/contrast a bit in Photoshop and re-sized the shots to a manageable size.
Sorry I couldn’t give you more info. Basically it was, shoot 10-15-20 frames, download and view in the computer, shoot another batch, repeat until satisfactory results were achieved.
RAPH
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