Happy Monday!

Last evening was a super moon, A total eclipse of the moon, and a blood moon.  A self-proclaimed photographer’s dream.  Well I spent 2.5 hours watching the event, which was totally cool I have to admit, so no complaints on the amount of time spent.  I shot 348 images and tried a variety of techniques (that have proven satisfactory before) but none of them produced an image that I was happy with.

The image above is a composite image.  At the beginning of the eclipse there were a lot of clouds in our area.  If I exposed for the clouds the moon was nothing more than a big white ball of light with zero detail.  If I exposed for the moon to reveal detail I couldn’t get the clouds.

So I exposed for both and merged them into one composite photo. 🙂

I couldn’t capture what my eye was seeing.  We had a pair of binoculars and they did a pretty good job.  You could actually see the moon and the “shadow” of the earth on its surface.  I couldn’t capture that with my lens and I was using a 600 mm lens on a tripod with a cable shutter button.

I tried every setting I could think of and short of running back to the house and researching the proper technique I did my best to capture what I saw.

This image was taken as the last sliver of the moon was still white as the earth moved across the front of the moon.  I got some stars in this shot as I exposed it for a longer period of time.  A little too long because the moon itself is a little soft.

That’s it for today.  Hope you enjoy your day.  A nice weather day in our part of the world.  Thanks for stopping by the blog and be careful.