The Night the Moon Turned to Blood* by Paul Stuckless by Canon DSLR Challenge


27-OCT-2004	Paul Stuckless

Taken from tonights lunar eclipse. Stitched together in PS.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
1/640s f/5.0 at 200.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto

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Victor Engel		29-Oct-2004 17:04
I'm not so sure. Since we're talking about an eclipse, that means the angle of the moon's orbit with respect to the earth's orbit is irrelevant. Also, we're pretty close to an equinox. Consequently, the path the moon is traveling right now is pretty much over the equator. Consequently, a view of the moon from North of the equator would give the photographer a parallax from north of the moon's orbital plane and a view from South of the equator would give the photographer a parallax from south of the moon's orbital plane. The resulting curve would have the northernmost point in the center for northern viewers and southernmost point in the center for southern viewers. Viewers near the equator would see the moon travel in a straight line. But the path of the moon would likely attain an arc due to barrel distortion of the lens, assuming a wide enough lens was used to capture the event, as in this photo:http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=10856567 -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Oct-2004 15:26
This is very nice, although I wouldn't have placed the images in a straight line. The moon (like every celestial body) moves across the sky in an arc. I think that placing each shot on some kind of curve would not only be more accurate, but would look more interesting than a linear arrangement. - Jon S

Guest		29-Oct-2004 14:29
Nice eclipse montage! And the adjustments you did made it even better.

ctfchallenge		28-Oct-2004 21:55
I think that's a big improvement. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		28-Oct-2004 21:38
Thank you all for your comments. I took Iso3200's advice and adjusted the background to be more even, and took Victor's advice and made the brightness more even. I then brightened it up a little and added a little more sharpness. How's this image? =Paul

iso3200		28-Oct-2004 18:42
A nice idea here. Makes for an interesting image. Turn your brightness right up to the max and you will see that the black background is not consistent. Images 4 and 5 show a darker black square box where they were cut and pasted in. If this isn't obvious on your monitor, try inverting it to show a white background and you might see what I mean.

Victor Engel		28-Oct-2004 09:15
I'm a bit bothered by the fact the 5th image is darker and the 6th lighter than they should be for consistency in the sequence. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		28-Oct-2004 07:31
Nicely done! -- Jeff Hall