Yet another Supermoon

[ColytonJohn]

Better images than my efforts of the eclipse posted already but here's a couple of the preliminary show:

IMG_8862 by John Leah, on Flickr

IMG_8870 by John Leah, on Flickr

I wasn't going to show this one as it's not great but at least it serves to prove I was up until 4:30 am

IMG_8964 by John Leah, on Flickr

The first two were hand-held but the eclipse shot was the best of many all tripod mounted, mirror locked up with a 2 second delay yet still not sharp.

Cheers,
John

[paul linton]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

First two shots are OK and show the moon when it was still quite large, also well done for staying up.

Paul

[antoeknee]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

Like the first two.

From the work I did last night an exposure of 2.5secs is too long (there is a calculation, that I can't recall, that to avoid star trails you divide a figure by focal length which gives maximum exposure time) and might be reason for soft image though looking at image on Flickr the stars seem to have a donught effect. Bit hard to say of this was out of focus or camera movement.

[ColytonJohn]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

Thanks folks.

The exposure I can get away with in such low light is always compromised by the poor high ISO performance of my 7D. After deciding I didn't want an ISO higher than 640 and aperture of f8 the slack had to be taken up by the shutter and bracketing through the eclipse produced exposures ranging from 1 second up to ten seconds. There is a marked difference in star trails from those extremes but, as I was concentrating on the moon, didn't think it would be troubled but adjusting in LR to expose background stars I see just how problematic it can be.

What this tells me is that I really do need a 7D2

Cheers,
JKohn

[ColytonJohn]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

More... it's impossible to predict what people like as the third 'eclipse' shot that I only added as a fun afterthought someone has just 'faved' on Flickr

Cheers,
John

[tesarver]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

First 2 for me.

Tom

[antoeknee]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

Thanks folks.

The exposure I can get away with in such low light is always compromised by the poor high ISO performance of my 7D. After deciding I didn't want an ISO higher than 640 and aperture of f8 the slack had to be taken up by the shutter and bracketing through the eclipse produced exposures ranging from 1 second up to ten seconds. There is a marked difference in star trails from those extremes but, as I was concentrating on the moon, didn't think it would be troubled but adjusting in LR to expose background stars I see just how problematic it can be.

What this tells me is that I really do need a 7D2

Cheers,
JKohn

Sounds like you're got a good excuse to get a 7D2

[Tigger]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

1st one for me John - really like it with the sea around and it just goes to show you don't have to zoom right in - nice work

[ColytonJohn]

Re: Yet another Supermoon

Thanks folks

Cheers,
John