Sunday, April 27, 2014

Lunar Eclipse - 04/14/2014

I have no idea what to expect of shooting a lunar eclipse a.k.a. the blood moon.  I started out hand holding my shots but realize it was getting really dark so I got out my tripod. The moon kept moving (duh!) and I kept having to readjust the camera position and it was near impossible to focus as it got darker. Even though the whole eclipse lasted about 3 hours, I was still struggling trying all kinds of different adjustments.  After seeing other peoples shots, doing a little more reading, and having this experience, I hope I'll get better shots next time around in October.
Here is my series of shots. These were cropped from my max 200mm zoom shots.  By the way, I donno how blogger stacked up my shots like this.. it was purely coincidental but I think it works so I am not gonna reformat the layout.

4 comments:

jalna said...

Hey, good job!! I gave up shooting the moon, but you've inspired me. Maybe next time.

Erick said...

Wow, pretty cool! Is this from your lanai? Looks great to me.

SW said...

Yeah it's from the lanai and my neck was sore from looking up all night.

celia said...

Very good. That night was very challenging - clouds be gone.