Well, my alarm clock failed to wake me up at 3:45a.m, but fortunately someone came and got me up. The eclipse started at around 4am MDT, and peaked around 5:05am. Deciding where I wanted to be when it happened was a bit tough for me, not knowing if it would pass behind Horestooth Rock or not. I am so thankful I took the risk and just headed up there!
Due to me getting up a bit later than I had planned, I arrived at my location just as the eclipse was in its peak. Also, the moon was a bit lower than I had thought it would be, so the shooting was a bit rushed. It was a fascinating sight, it being the first time I had ever witnessed that type of event, and extra beautiful having the moon set behind a hazy atmosphere.
That all said, I snapped some of the moon alone, then on a whim (and with the sun's glow barely illuminating the mountain), I decided to take this panorama. I HARDLY ever do panoramas, but the scene was begging for it. Bracketing exposures, I dreaded the manual blend and processing that might go into the final image, but was sort of excited to give it a try. End the end, I did blend six separate exposures, four for the panorama, and two for the moon itself. During the exposures, though, the moon was shifting, creating an even more difficult subject to merge...
Enough of the story---here's the details...
Canon 60d 55-250mm @ 240mm
ISO 500 --- f/7.1 --- 6 exposures blended --- ManualMode --- Tripod
C & C appreciated!
VIEW LARGE and in dark room-------
Comments
3 commentsI really, really like this. It's simply one of those images that takes full advantage of the presented situation; great use of negative space, format and composition. Not sure how or why 6 exposures were needed, but your end result is excellent. the amount of detail present in the landscape is just enough. just.
Well done!
Lon
Lon---Glad you are enjoying the image! About the six exposures... Maybe I made it a bit unclear, but four images were for the actual panorama (so the image is four horizontal images wide), and two images were for the moon itself. I wanted the moons highlights to have detail, but in order to allow that, its shadow was near black, so one more exposure took care of that. I would love to see this 'professionally' processed, as I'm sure I sort of hacked this together hap-hazardly...