Lunar Eclipse April 4, 2015

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Beautiful shot

Great photo!

Brilliant capture!

Magnificent capture +Jeff Sullivan​

Well, you defiantly had the correct equipment! What were your settings? You also had a great location!

look at the solar flares

Very nice +Jeff Sullivan!

+Paul Winfield Nagy This was captured at 0.6 seconds at f/8, ISO 1600.

This shot was taken at 4:51 am yesterday, about 6-7 minutes before totality, so there was a sliver of bright sunlight on the moon.

The Canon EF 70-200 f/4 IS lens was well focused, but shooting any lens at it's maximum aperture tends to result in slightly less sharp images. Adding more glass elements such as the 2X teleconverter further challenges sharpness. Adding a teleconverter also reduces the f-stop, in this case 2X to f/8. I wanted to stay at or below below 1 second exposure time to reduce motion blur, and at ISO 1600 I could use 0.6 second. The high ISO also creates a little bit of noise, which can also challenge fine detail.

I had changed my shooting location when the weather forecast made the original ones I had identified look less attractive with below freezing temperatures, high winds, and possible clouds to obscure the eclipse. I decided to just catch what i could from home. I was shooting a time-lapse sequence, and shooting at 400mm I had room to lengthen the exposure time as the moon darkened, but and the moon set just before totality.

I had my Canon 70D with a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens on a star-tracking mount to capture a time-lapse of the eclipse progress without the moon moving out of the field of view. at 300mm the effective focal length was 480mm, but shooting wide open at f/5.6 that lens was a little softer then the EF 70-200mm and 2X teleconverter combo, even with the moon's relative motion taken out of the equation.

I was basically using the 5D Mark III on a fixed tripod to measure and track exposure as the eclipse progressed and the moon illumination constantly changed.

Well done, if that's home, then you are blessed with another beautiful place to live. I'm sure at the time you took the time laps, it was pretty chilly, add wind to that, with the teleconverters, then it's a good thing to be using that remote control that normally comes and stays in the box.
On your 2x converter, I'm sure you had to weigh it down with a good heavy tripod and in some cases, just like your motion blur, one drift if air on that shot can turn it into a blur in an instant! That's great that you took all that into consideration, sometimes even the extreme cold, will also affect the shutter speed and in most cases you have to keep it covered! Well done! Again, thanks for sharing and taking the time to share your details. I'm sure, you have captured some amazing shots in your time. p.s. I have used a bottle of Mercury, prior, well encapsulated, and used as a weight to put on the neck of the 2x to help maintain stability without adding Resistance on the already large lenses. Exactly 1lb .02oz holds it real steady! Mercury was a afterthought, as I started shooting, I remembered that I had some we used in the old days for picking up the bits and pieces of gold when mining up on a place called bagby, campground! Boy, we pulled about 5 oz a week with the 8" dredge, now, its been banned, but when we did use it gold was not nearly as much as it is now. Thanks again for sharing, best wishes on your future shoots.

Jeff bardzo Ci dzekuje za zrobienie z ego zdjęcia bo jak wydać Proroctwa Bibliijne nie kłamią. Ten znak zapowiada przejście powtórne Mesjasza i to w bardzo krótkim czasie. Następny czerwony księżyc będzie w święto Sukkot przełom września i pazdziernika 28.09.2015 .

blood moon 😮

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BEAUTIFUL SHOT

Gorgeous

I love this. It's so beautiful. What a wonderful picture!