We are talking sacrifice here! I set the alarm this morning for 4:30 AM! I quickly dressed and loaded my camera equipment and tripods into the car, and then headed for this beach and boat ramp in Glen Cove. I had scouted the location a week before and what I liked were the pilings in the center of the photograph, sticking up above the horizon. I thought those pilings might add interest to the photograph. But it turns out I needed to be further away from them to get this wide angle view and so they didn't really play a part in my eclipse photos. So this is shortly after the total eclipse started at 5:16 AM. You can see that the moon is orange, instead of white, meaning that it is in the shadow of the earth.
So this is a photograph of the fully eclipsed moon taken with my 300mm lens. If you enlarge this image by clicking on it, you can see a few stars in the background. This was taken at 5:30 AM.
And this photo was taken at 5:46 as the sky got brighter as dawn approached. The Moon is lower as it begins setting, so I used a longer lens, and so the moon is larger, which is nice. As 6:00 AM approached, the sky became lighter and the eclipsed moon gradually faded and disappeared. An astounding morning, and certainly worth getting up early for!
4 comments:
Viewing the blog is a wonderful way to start the morning. These photos are amazing! The lunar eclipse is astounding. I was hoping we would see this on your blog. The 5:30 a.m. photo of the moon and stars is wonderful. Thanks for sharing the photos! Trace
Thank you for sacrificing a good nights sleep. :-) You captured some wonderful photos of the Lunar Eclipse in its stages. I especially like the middle photo with the moon and stars. Striking.
Joan
I like the first photo taken at 5:16 showing the partly orange moon and the water view. I love the second photo showing the full orange colored moon surrounded by stars. Thanks for getting up early to photograph the eclipse so we could enjoy it! betsey
I am so glad that you all loved seeing the photographs of the eclipse! And what's great is that you didn't have to get up early in the morning... :-)
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