I promised various people that I would put something together, image-wise... so I have. Click to see a larger view of it... and then consider that the larger view is only 1/4 as wide and high as the actual original image. Maybe I'll make a giant print of it or something.
Update a day later: I made a couple versions with the stages of the eclipse arranged in a more curved manner.
7 comments:
Very cool.. my question is how long between each photo??
This is fantastically done... Thank you for sharing +Daniel Birchall
Andy, I went outside and took photos about every ten minutes. I'd shoot 3 frames at each of several shutter speeds, each time. And I did some other shots of the moon, just experimenting and stuff. In all, I shot somewhere around 500 frames during the eclipse.
nice. was bummed that it was overcast and rainy here. what camera settings worked out best for you?
Dan what equipment did you use?
Bifyu, it varied. I tried to use ISO 100 throughout to keep noise down. Before the moon went into totality, I was focusing and metering on the illuminated part, initially at F/16 and speeds of 1/40-1/100 second (I'd take a few shots at each speed) but later dropping down to F/8 when there was less illuminated, and going to shutter speeds as slow as 1/20 or more. For totality, I went to f/5.6, exposures of 1-5 seconds, and played with ISO 200/400 as well; the shot I settled on for that was 2 seconds at ISO 400.
Spamfighter, I used my el-cheapo Canon Digital Rebel XS (aka Kiss F in Japan, EOS 1000D outside the US and Japan), my old 70-300mm image-stabilized USM zoom lens (which cost slightly more than the camera), and during totality, my tripod. Most of the shots, though, were handheld.
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