Lunar Eclipse Pics - let's see yours!

[CowboyPoetWannabe]

"I Saw The Light"

http://home.earthlink.net/~cowboypoetwannabe/images/combined-vsm.jpg

For a large version (not a very large file because of all the black) see:

I Saw The Light (http://home.earthlink.net/~cowboypoetwannabe/images/combined-med.jpg)

This is a combination of many shots taken at 3 exposure settings. Each are 5 minutes apart. G3, full zoom, ISO 50, tripod, no tele.

Since I have no teleconverter, I went for timing instead of image quality. Dana and new girl on the bloc have some great ones over here (I hope they post more!):
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10924

-CPW

[new girl on the bloc]

excellent! I love it!

[CowboyPoetWannabe]

Thanks, new girl. Now let's see some more of your pics!

I love it when a plan comes together! (Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith)

-CP "Hannibal" W

[CyberDyneSystems]

I was far too late to get a great series like that CPW! Very nice :)

Here's the clearest of the few I was able to take. Moving clouds and bad timing limited me ,. but I was pretty happy that I got this;

http://cyberdynesytemsimaging.fotopic.net/photo.php?id=510252

[new girl on the bloc]

CyberDyneSystems wrote:
I was far too late to get a great series like that CPW! Very nice :)

Here's the clearest of the few I was able to take. Moving clouds and bad timing limited me ,. but I was pretty happy that I got this;

http://cyberdynesytemsimaging.fotopic.net/photo.php?id=510252

Too late nothing! That is a great photo!

[CowboyPoetWannabe]

That's a GREAT shot, CyberDyneSystems. You and new girl have the best whole moon shots! Keep up the good work.

I see it was with a tele. Can you give details?

-CPW

[new girl on the bloc]

CowboyPoetWannabe wrote:
Thanks, new girl. Now let's see some more of your pics!

I love it when a plan comes together! (Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith)

-CP "Hannibal" W

The two that I posted were my best, so that's probably all that I'll post. Let's work on another project! Ideas?

[CowboyPoetWannabe]

new girl on the bloc wrote:
Let's work on another project! Ideas?

I've got an idea, but let's let this Lunar Eclipse one run its course before posting the new one, OK? The idea is:

"What is it?"

That is, a close-up (not extreme cropping, however) of something familiar that can be verified with another photo, but the close-up doesn't really look like what we envision the object to look like.
Example:
I missed a great shot of ice cubes with entrained air bubbles the other day. A macro of the bubbles compared to a full shot of the glass with soda and ice was what I had in mind.

See what you think...and go ahead and post your 2 pics here, OK?

-CPW

[CyberDyneSystems]

CowboyPoetWannabe wrote:

I see it was with a tele. Can you give details?

-CPW

I have a Sigma 50-500mm zoom. (on a 10D) It was set to 500mm wide open (f/6.4? ) I have a cheesy little quantaray tripod,. (much too liteweight for the 10D and that lens lol )

So most of the shots were pretty bad. The funniest part was I had a narrow shot out an open window,. and the moon passed behingd a building just minutes after that shot :)

I set the timer "Drive mode" so I wouldn't shake the Camera,.. and I let the camera set the shutter speed,. which was about 8 to 10 seconds.

I was in such a rush,. (i read the post at 11:25 and then ran down the hallway with the camera) that I forgot to set it to take raw. So its jpeg fine.

I love your "I saw the light" progression! Awesome! It should be in an astronomy book.

[new girl on the bloc]

too strange - i had a similar idea to yours - to photograph something upclose that would be hard to readily identify and have a guessing game. Sounds like fun!

[new girl on the bloc]

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=508518&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=508517&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

[DanyaL]

It was completely cloudy were I live. I could not see the moon at all. I was planning to photograph it for a long time to. Damn.