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Got up at 3.45 this morning to capture the Lunar eclipse. Nice clear conditions for the shot, it was also impressive around 2am when I peeked and saw it as a really bright crescent.

Shot at 300mm on crop sensor. Exposure of F6.3 @0.8s, ISO 3200.

Looks great Paul! I guess there must have been quite some diminution in the reflective brightness, I guess getting the right shutter speed in advance must have been tricky.

Graham

Paul Heester wrote:..... it was also impressive around 2am when I peeked and saw it as a really bright crescent.

I should have stayed up a bit longer, but it was an impressive sight even earlier in the evening.

GrahamL wrote:Looks great Paul! I guess there must have been quite some diminution in the reflective brightness, I guess getting the right shutter speed in advance must have been tricky.

Graham

In comparison to a normal full moon it was really dim and with camera set to manual it was a constant process of bumping ISO and reducing shutter speed. In post processing I also increased exposure by around half a stop.

Normally when I shoot the Moon it's at 1/250th sec shutter speed, I guess the eclipse must have seriously cut down on the brightness. We didn't get to see it over here because Indonesia is slowly choking the whole of Singapore to death in slash & burn smoke

Looks like you even caught a couple of stars there too

Here are mine

Here's my cheat version...



500mm, f/8, 1/1250, ISO 800 - shot a day early and multiplied by an orange-brown gradient.

I guess the clue is the image look too perfect, Graham's close-up looks more real.

The best photo of the night was said to be Matt Cardy's of Getty Images, a picture of the moon behind Glastonbury Tor. Taken an hour before the eclipse, but very impressive. I heard him being interviewed a few days afterwards on the radio; he was most upset at being accused by some of photoshop manipulation. He said it wasn't even a processed raw file, because it looked so good at the time he e-mailed a jpeg produced on camera back to base from the Tor.

Here's a link to Matt Cardy's image for those who haven't seen it, not difficult to see why it rated international attention.
http://time.com/4052686/supermoon-eclipse-photo/

Cheers,

Graham

Well it's just a linear gradient (should be curved) and doesn't have enough contrast, but even if I spent the time getting that right it'd still be slightly less than full, which should give it away.

Bet it would fool the average club judge though.

He said it wasn't even a processed raw file...

Of course, you can't get an image without the raw data being processed. A camera-produced JPEG is still processed, (simply by whatever preset has been selected or is default).

I can see why he'd be annoyed though - if it was manipulated I'm sure he would have positioned the moon better...

I watched the lunar eclipse from my friend's house in the Adirondack mountains in the USA. You'll have to wait for the photos though... I've run out of space on my iMac and have had to go out today to buy extra storage before I can download photos from my trip !! LOL