Lunar Eclipse

[Poseidon]

Hey all took this shot tonight, I want to know what you think....

Good and Bad of course...

Mike

[Reefland]

That's a nice shot! I tried to get one but it was much too cold out to mess with it.

[zhenya]

Great shot,Mike! I was watching it last night but like Scott said,it was too darn cold to be fiddling with the camera
Thanks for sharing!

[Poseidon]

Thanks Guys...

It wasn't TOO cold where I am... It was like 28-30 degrees tops!!!!

I must confess though that is actually 2 shots, 1 was like a 20 sec exposure to get the Tree and some Stars, the other was the moon at like 6 sec, also I shot the moon at 135mm and the tree closer to 50mm... when I loaded up the results, I couldn't resist bring the 2 together. The moon is actually there in the original, just alot smaller and moving, like the star streaks are. The Long streak you see is actually an airplane. I live pretty close to Flint Bishop airport!!


Mike

[zhenya]

Thanks Guys...

It wasn't TOO cold where I am... It was like 28-30 degrees tops!!!!

I must confess though that is actually 2 shots, 1 was like a 20 sec exposure to get the Tree and some Stars, the other was the moon at like 6 sec, also I shot the moon at 135mm and the tree closer to 50mm... when I loaded up the results, I couldn't resist bring the 2 together. The moon is actually there in the original, just alot smaller and moving, like the star streaks are. The Long streak you see is actually an airplane. I live pretty close to Flint Bishop airport!!


Mike

Mike,

I couldn't even notice that you stitched this...nice job!28-30 degrees is freezing in my opinion and my old bones can't stand that kind of treatment

[Poseidon]

Thanks... I'm much better at adding a single element to a picture then I am at putting together 2 images to make a landscape type image....

Next I want to learn how to add lighting effects in Photoshop. I'm even considering buying a MACINTOSH (yikes) just cause they run graphics programs better then a PC ( supposedly anyway I want to find a head to head comparison B4 I spend that much cash)

the picture looks much darker here at work, so I'll have to lighten it a tad so you can see the detail in the tree!!!

Mike

[drlowz]

We went out and checked it out. Was pretty cool. Although it was to cloudy the other night to see the meteor shower...damn now we have to wait until like 2038 I think..

[Poseidon]

DOH!!!!!

I completely forgot about the meteor shower.... I think the Leonids are an Every year event though. The Earth passes through the "exhaust" or tail of a Comet around this time every year. Thats the meteor shower we see....

[almostdiva]

VERY cool shot... I'm w Gene -- I can't tell where the 1st pic stops and the 2nd starts. Nice stich job indeed

[Poseidon]

Thanks... The only part of the picture that is stiched is the MOON it self, I cut it out of another exposure and pasted it right on top of the moon in the final image...

Pretty cool what photoshop can do...