Lunar eclipse as seen from the west coast.

Frank,

congrats on a fantastic shot(s).
Looks like the view was better on the beach than back in Sixmilebridge, where the clouds rolled in and spoiled the totality.
Still, I enjoyed it! And at such a reasonable hour too

Don

Frank that is FANTASTIC! I would send it into LPOD- Lunar photo of the day!

lpod.org/

If you look closely, you can see the yellow horizon and the green grass, I've seen a number of such images over the years like this, this is one of the most scenic!

Thanks for the nice comments!

I was very lucky with the wether as any break would have ruined the sequence.

Did you just cut and paste the moons in or are they layered onto your background or what?

The overexposed shot gives it a nice focal point, particularly since you place it right atop a telegraph pole, and accentuating the cables. Well done, looks great.

Ya, it took a while to find & position the right spot...but ruined cottages in Clare are
a dime a dozen!

Yes, the moons after the overexposed one are from different shots.
I'm sure you didnt mean 'just cut and paste' to sound easy...as it was
most definatly not!

To get each moon to look right in the background they had to be cut by the pixel, then 'burned' into the local area so as not to get halos or
any number of other funny things showing up.

In essence of course its not a image one might ever see in reality
(I hear Seanie chanting 'Hear - Hear' )
but the reason why I did it was to give the feel of the event from the ground.
I tried to keep the colour and exposure of the images as close to what I saw as possable...compromising a little for artistic effect.

A lot of stepped sequences I've seen show the moon in lovely detail but the atmosphere is lost...because there is no foreground to give a sence
depth or scale.
and for me its the feeling you get from your surroundings is 99% of the event.
(As for solar eclipse, I love shots like this....)

www.solar-eclipse.ru/images/foto/solar-eclipse-ru21.jpg

...It starts to bring back that giddy happy feeling you get when you
experience something so spectacular as I'm sure all of you who went to
Turkey remember!

Again all I can say is, getting an image like this is 99% bieng in the
right place at the right time.

In essence of course its not a image one might ever see in reality
(I hear Seanie chanting 'Hear - Hear' )
but the reason why I did it was to give the feel of the event from the ground.

Gosh, I'm not that bad at being a critic, am I? Now that you have said it was a 'copy and paste' job, it might seem it has taken away from it. If you didn't admit to that, I for one would have thought the shot to be genuine, as it has been done before (even I have done multiple exposure shots on a single frame like yours). Still, it is a very nice scenic shot!

Seanie...
Your not a 'bad' critic at all.

I dont think you can be a good or bad critic...
you just (to coin a phrase from catchphrase)
'say what ye see'
And more power to ya.
We all have our opinions and...
I hope this dosnt come accross as negitave
twords yourself,
but I just want to voice my own opinion...

would have thought the shot to be genuine,

Do you mean
'would have thought the shot to be one single frame' ?

I don't understand why you believe photography like this is somehow
fake (ungenuine?)

Its just a different method of capturing and managing light.

Prehaps in your opinion you believe its technically more difficult to
do this on a single frame - and it is, but its just a difficult to
process the thing back to what you see above.

Kudos to the people who like to do it that way,
I just think you stand a better chance of success doing it this way.

To me its like....if a photographer from 100 years ago who made
his subjects stand for ages to capture their portrait was handed
a camera with faster film and a shutter...would he say...
''nah, that way of capturing the image is not genuine' ''

I think for shots like this, and say the shot of Saturn passing the moon etc..
As long as nothing is just created from scratch in a paintshop programme
(digital art)
Then I don't see the issue..

Even when it comes to planetary imaging....
by the time you look at the final image its be dragged thru the
digital ringer in your PC....to make it look good.
2000 images from an AVI aligned, enhanced, stacked one on top of the other...pixels tweaked, layers, pulled up down in out,, contrast,,hue,,balance.......all to get ONE single image.
Thats, as in your termanology, as 'Ungenuine' as you can get.
But I'm pretty sure everyone is wowed by the images from the likes
of Damien Peach and wouldnt think about suggesting he attach
a 35mm camera to the back of his scope and take one shot in future coz what he comes up with is Ungenuine?


Again I think as long as the shot is explained
and NOTHING in it is created out of thin air
(that's the realm of Astro Art)
then its fine.

(please excuse all my spelling mistakes, there is more red on this page than black!)

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