creative ways to photography lunar eclipse

[jeffery_pool]

We've all seen the 300mm with telextender shots of the moon, but with tonights

lunar eclipse it'd be nice to see some photos incorporating other elements. I

understand it is quite challenging to expose something like the moon in eclipse

as well as a foreground but I'm sure there are some creative possibilities

apart from the moon taking up the whole frame?

[colin carron]

Some intersting ideas in this recent No Words thread.

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/nw-fetch-msg?msg_id=00MKtK

 

I imagine PS was involved in some of them!

 

Exposure will be a bit of a hit and miss business as the moon fools meters and during an eclipse the light reflected drops. Bracketing and trial and error are recommended.

[Stock-Photos]

I suggest framing the moon with some tree branches and include some clouds. I'll be sleeping, zzz.

[sandysocks]

A big crop can be fun. I put a few images in my portfolio this morning, but haven't figured out anything exotic to do with them yet.

[allklier]

<p>A bit more artistic interpretation. The moon was pretty high in Seattle on a very clear sky with no cloud nearby. So this was shot through the branches of a tree I was standing next to. That would require extreme DoF or hyperfocal length, so instead I took two pictures (one of sharp moon, one of leaves focused in front of moon) and then blended them in Photoshop.</p>

 

<p>The rest of the standard shots of course on my <a href="http://photos.janklier.com/2007/08/total-lunar-eclipse.html">blog</a>.</p><div></div>