Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Lunar Eclipse

Just in case you missed it last night/this morning...


8 comments:

Colleen said...

Mary! That's awesome! I did miss it, but now I can live vicariously. The photos are gorgeous!!

Brown Family Blog said...

It was overcast here. J woke up to check but didn't wake me up until he checked. Your pics make me sad I missed it!

sophia said...

Looooooove it. I did see it here and trie to photograph it as well but only got a big glowing ball--no detail.any hints on what I did wring? I shot AV priority. And is it okay for a total stranger to ask you for advic? :)

sophia said...

Looooooove it. I did see it here and trie to photograph it as well but only got a big glowing ball--no detail.any hints on what I did wring? I shot AV priority. And is it okay for a total stranger to ask you for advic? :)

Mary said...

Hi Sophia--of course glad to help if I can
I had the same issue at wide open aperture. I shot these fully manual since I had the time. :). Most of these were shot at f/16 to f/32--the full moon actually emits a lot of light so I was able to shoot it handheld even with a smaller aperture. I had to use a tripod after that and the full eclipse was shot at a pretty slow shutterspeed--somewhere in the 2-4 second range. If you want more detail I can look at the exact settings for each later this week and let you know. HOpe that helps

sophia said...

Oh that would be so great...if only just a couple of the pics. I think the f/stop info helped though. Don't know why I didn't adjust a bit just to experiment.

Monica said...

Coolest pics! So sad I missed it.

Mary said...

Thanks!

Sophia--no problem.
I took the photos with the Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS ii fully extended to 200mm. My camera is a cropped sensor (40D)so the shots were not a true 200mm. The specifics of a couple are:

Full moon: f/16 shutter speed 1/250
2nd eclipse shot: f/32 shutter speed 1 second
Full eclipse: f/32 shutter speed 5 seconds

HOpe that helps!