This image of the Total Eclipse of a Full Moon was taken in the general Chicago area on February 20, 2008 at 9:41 PM.
You can read about how an eclipse happens by clicking here better than I can describe it.
Special thanks to one of my past brides, Gina Formella for reminding me about the event via email!
I shot this with a Nikon D300 camera at ISO 200. The lens was a Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VR lens set at f2.8 aperture. Aperture priority was used for exposure. The camera chose a shutter speed of 15 seconds. The camera was mounted on a Manfrotto tripod via the lens' tripod mount and the shutter was triggered using a Nikon MC-30 remote shutter release cord. The image was shot in RAW format and processed with Adobe Bridge in Photoshop CS3 to create a JPG image.
The blurred, "non-circular" image of the moon is caused by the movement due to the rotation of the earth. If you look at the upper right edge of the first image, you can see one of the stars "streaking" because of this as well. You can see other stars streaking in the image as well if you click on the image to get a closer look. Be sure to click on each image to see a larger version. The second image is just a close crop of the moon. Cool!
You can read about how an eclipse happens by clicking here better than I can describe it.
Special thanks to one of my past brides, Gina Formella for reminding me about the event via email!
I shot this with a Nikon D300 camera at ISO 200. The lens was a Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VR lens set at f2.8 aperture. Aperture priority was used for exposure. The camera chose a shutter speed of 15 seconds. The camera was mounted on a Manfrotto tripod via the lens' tripod mount and the shutter was triggered using a Nikon MC-30 remote shutter release cord. The image was shot in RAW format and processed with Adobe Bridge in Photoshop CS3 to create a JPG image.
The blurred, "non-circular" image of the moon is caused by the movement due to the rotation of the earth. If you look at the upper right edge of the first image, you can see one of the stars "streaking" because of this as well. You can see other stars streaking in the image as well if you click on the image to get a closer look. Be sure to click on each image to see a larger version. The second image is just a close crop of the moon. Cool!
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