single photos Eclipse of the Moon Composite 10/27/04

A Photoshop composite of 9 images shot between 9:00PM & 1:00AM.

Comments? Thanks!

This is great!

You deserve a round of applause for this. By far the best shot of tonight's eclipse I've seen posted here.

Super Shot ! - - - you are quick at getting this processed

Great composote, John! I only stayed out through totality because I was freezing my derierre for three hours as it was and had to drive 30 miles for clear skies - gotta love Michigan weather!

Very Good picture Jon, congratulations!!!

Excellent use of photoshop on such a remarkable image.

 

Regards

It almost didn't happen - this is what it looked like at 8:30...

well done!!

Excellent! I thought about trying a montage too but didn't have the skills or patience. Really well done. Also very sharp. Congrats.

Great work !!! Congratullation.

Outstanding, but this could have been done just as easily in camera.

I'll agree that it would be possible to do in camera - the black background makes it easier than most composites. It seemed far more practical to build it from single images since alignment in a 35mm viewfinder, although possible, would be tough. Another point - I posted this 10 minutes after the last image was taken - kinda tough to do that with film.

I'm not down on film - most of the images on my web pages are film. It just seems to make sense to use the system that works best for the final image.

Yeah, I understand. I have an illuminated viewfinder with grid in my camera that makes it really easy. But I use slide film, so won't be able to post for a few days.

the one thing that is glaring in this photo is the misalignment alignment of some of the moons. It would seem moving from left to right the first half are properly aligned when looking at the craters and seas. The second half seems to be aligned differently than the first half. There appears to be a slight rotation. Other than that beautiful work.