Blood Moon Eclipse Show Photos Here

Mar 25, 2011
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I decided to try and take some photos of the eclipse. I found it difficult due to the very dim moon I finally settled on a 2 sec exposure at ISO 6400 and a f/8 equivalent aperture due to my 100-400mmL + 1.4X TC. Manually focused.

Its not sharp due to movement of the moon in 2 seconds, but it was a compromise setting.

This was after the eclipse, about 8:15

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Great learning experience for me (and, gratifyingly, my 5-year-old girl). Tried all sorts of settings.

Here are a few, all shot on a 7D2:
http://adobe.ly/1jp0I82

Settings:
- First part of umbral eclipse (small bite showing)
1/400 second at f/11 ISO 400
Canon 100-400 II with 2x TC III
- Crescent remaining
1/250 second at f/11 ISO 1600
Canon 100-400 II with 2x TC III
- Full blood moon
1/4 second at f/5.6 ISO 6400
Canon 100-400 II bare

I was surprised how much I had to chase the light with my settings as the earthshine diminished. Great fun.
 

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I'm pretty happy with what you can do with a bare 400f5.6 and an 1100D.
I'm tempted to say ideally I would rather have a 400f2.8 than a 600f4 just for the faster shutter speed, but I guess reach also equals extra noise reduction room.
My best shots were at or between 1 and 2 seconds. 3 seconds can give better grain and colour but the moon gets soft.
The best adjustment I figured out for these in Canon DPP was just to crush the dark end by two notches, which does a better job of getting rid of the rainbow coloured stars vs. turning NR all the way up.

(the images are clickable for higher resolution, and yes I know I should get a real hosting service.)
(I just double checked the original jpegs [converted from RAW of course] with the Imgur files and there isn't much difference.)


 
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Valvebounce

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Hi Folks.
Thanks for posting these. I really wanted to see this, but at 01:30 I couldn't see any sign of it starting, my google search said it should start at 01:10! I decided sleep for work today was quite important and gave up, I'm glad I didn't stop up if it didn't get to England (Penrith) until 03:23, my customers for today would probably be annoyed with me for not turning up.

Cheers, Graham.
 
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tomscott

Photographer & Graphic Designer
Valvebounce said:
Hi Folks.
Thanks for posting these. I really wanted to see this, but at 01:30 I couldn't see any sign of it starting, my google search said it should start at 01:10! I decided sleep for work today was quite important and gave up, I'm glad I didn't stop up if it didn't get to England (Penrith) until 03:23, my customers for today would probably be annoyed with me for not turning up.

Cheers, Graham.

Haha yes and I stayed up to put it out on social media here etc and didn't get to bed until about 6am… today will be a long day!
 
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tomscott

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It was hard work determining a good exposure.

I started off with 1/250th that quickly came down to 1/60th. As the full eclipse took hold I found 1 second at 3200iso was about right but with the effect of the Earth's rotation I found it was too blurred. So I finished with 1/2sec at 6.3 at 4000ISO although its not perfectly sharp its not bad and I'm quite happy with it. The correct exposure was about 10,000ISO at 1/30th but its too noisy for my liking.

Really need F4 to get a better exposure. But the Tammy did quite well I think!
 
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I too struggled with exposure a bit. I'd read about it before and seen a lot of pictures, but it's hard to grasp just how dark that eclipsed moon is until you see it. I blame all the amazing photographers out there that made it look so easy ;)

In any case, here's a first picture, taken around the maximum eclipse. 5DIII, Tamron 150-600, f/6.3, 1/2 sec, ISO 6400.

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And by the way, as fun as it was photographing it, I thought watching it through binoculars was the real highlight. Watching that first sliver of light reappear as the moon drifted out of the shade was just mesmerizing ...
 
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9VIII said:
I started wondering why everyone was tilting their moons funny...
But then I realized we're all at different locations on Earth.

Anyone got pictures of this from South America?
Here the super moon, seen from Brazil.
Canon T2i + EF-S 55-250mm STM
Aperture F8, speed 1/100, ISO200, handheld, and crop for viewing on 100%.

After you make this picture, I gave up photograph the eclipse because it would greatly increase the ISO. I also began to think seriously about buying a 150-600mm lens.
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