Lunar Eclipse Photography

[phlyersphan]

Here's what I got - unfortunately, I'm smack in the middle of street-lamp-lit suburbia, so there's a lot of lighting that messes up my blacks. :-/

I had to get up in the middle of the night to take these, so I didn't wake up too much before totality, and I didn't stay up much after the total eclipse (which was 4:52am in my neck of the woods).

I wish the shots weren't so noisy, but I wasn't up for driving out to the middle of nowhere to shoot! Had to get up for work the next morning

About half an hour before totality:


About 10 minutes before totality:


About 2 minutes after total eclipse:

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by phlyersphan

Here's what I got - unfortunately, I'm smack in the middle of street-lamp-lit suburbia, so there's a lot of lighting that messes up my blacks. :-/

Not too bad at all for your complaints about all the street lamps I'm totally jealous of all the people who got good exposures at totality since it was far too windy to even keep by camera steady on my tripod.

[gadgetgeek]

I shot these from outside my house in California. There was a bright lamppost in my view, so I had to be careful to not pick it up in the lens. I assembled these shots for the local paper.

[phlyersphan]

Originally Posted by Nicole

Not too bad at all for your complaints about all the street lamps I'm totally jealous of all the people who got good exposures at totality since it was far too windy to even keep by camera steady on my tripod.

Thanks! I'm totally jealous of all the people who were able to see the entire thing! I was way too sleepy to stay up more than the half hour I was up in the middle of the night