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treefrog @ 9:45 – Eclipse ‘Pro’ shot

Posted by Maya @ 1:10 on January 22, 2019  

I am in awe of a photographer who can do that!  It is incredibly hard to get the aperture/speed/ ASA settings right for the ‘dark moon’ part.  The light is radically different brightness from the illuminated crescent.  I read everything I could about settings for a lunar eclipse and it boiled down to “take one shot at every possible camera setting and find out which ONE comes out!”  I did that once.  Digital camera, of course.  Cannot imagine using a bunch of film to do that.

THEN… once you know the ‘dark moon’ settings that work, you can attempt to take the multiple-exposure shots and change settings in mid- eclipse when it goes dark, and back again when the illuminated crescent appears….  all without spoiling anything on the multiple-exposure shot overall.

Of course, then there is Photoshop… for the lazy.

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