Red Moon: Time lapse of a transformation

[flavio]

On the second day I was ready.
About the time the moon raised the night before I gathered my gear, set it up in a good spot and waited. But the moon has a mind of her own and she made me wait until it was dark, pitch balck!
Then, timidly it appeard radiantly red, yet again. The transformation was done in the span of an hour or so.
All's well that ends well.

Oh, the tiny lights in the bottom left corner are from small villages in Jerusalem's general direction which is about 40 Km. from home.



EXIF data:
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX100 IS
Exposure: 5 to 1/200
Aperture: f/8.0 (not constant)
Focal Length: 60 mm (not constant)
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[tycooder]

Wonderful sequence

[dlalonde]

Wow. Nice job.

[Heaterguy]

This is a really interesting phototgraph. Well done. Reminds of the CCR song "Pale Moon Rising"

[starjo]

this is a wonderful sequence! looks amazing!

[Fred flyfisher]

Great work Flavio, I really like the sequence. The transformation is beautiful.

[leonaashlee]

That is really amazing...nice work.

[ressalg]

Very nice sequence, Flavio. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so this one must be worth six thousand.

It seems sort of odd that, a day after full moon, that it would take that much longer to rise the next night. It might have something to do with your latitude. Around these parts, when it's the time of full moon, it rises at the same time as the sun sets. Then, usually each night following it rises about an hour later. But considering I'm at 51 degrees north latitude, we don't even get full darkness (referred to as Astronomical Darkness) at this time of year.

Did you use your first shot at the "base" and then just cut and paste the other moon shots into the original? Or is this some sort of layering technique to get this effect?

Thanks for sharing.

[pjflan7]

excellent! and very cool......I do not have the technical proficiency to do this type of stuff yet......Some might say that you were lucky but I have heard that the definition of luck is when preparation meets opportunity, so if that's true, then you were very lucky my friend.....great job

[ckodonne]

Wow, nicely done. I love how the colour goes from deep red, to light orange, then to bright yellow...amazing.

You know, you should really submit this to Astronomy Picture of the Day...they do mostly deep space shots but quite often will have moon/sun time lapses just like yours...although I have to admit I haven't seen one as stunning as yours. Usually they'll just show a month-long composite of the full moon cycle (full to crescent to full again), or something along those lines. Your shot is pretty rare which is why I'm recommending this. I think they'll love it.