Posted by Todd Caudle on August 28, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Mel's right, the lunar eclipse was extremely problematic to shoot. I spent the night just below the Mount Evans summit. This is about 30-35% of an image taken with my 100-400 lens @ 400mm, plus 1.4X, for a total of 560mm. A full second was the absolute maximum before showing movement in the moon. On top of that, it was very windy, which is not exactly ideal conditions for that tank of a lens. I positioned my truck to block the wind as much as possible, but still saw the camera shake a bit on a regular basis.
This was 1-sec. @ f8, iso 800.
A smarter person than I probably bought a whole mess of stock yesterday in the company that makes Noise Ninja. I'll bet there will be a lot of folks, including me, who will use lunar eclipse photos as the final catalyst to buy that type of software.
Check back with this thread later this evening and I'll post a few more interesting pics from the night and morning.
Yep - totally rad; that's the bomb, dude. Kudos to you for getting out and capturing it.
I think you'll like noise ninja. I'm still working to figure out how to quickly come up with the image-specific settings for eliminating noise without losing a noticeable amount of detail, but it has saved dozens of high ISO images that would otherwise have been trashed. Most of the images that I posted in that Beartooth Storm storyboard thread had enough noise that the image was seriously compromised. NN worked wonders.
Posted by Mel Ladewig on August 28, 2007 at 6:32 PM
Nice Todd. I was wondering where you ended up shooting from.
I combed through my shots and finally found a decent shot during totality. 1 second at ISO 800, f5.6. The XT isn't as forgiving as your 5D on noise, but the crop factor and pixel density are a reasonable tradeoff.
Posted by Les Barstow on August 28, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Beautiful, Todd.
Noise Ninja has saved my bacon on a few shots already. It's well worth the minimal investment to be able to salvage high-ISO shots, especially when combined with darker tones.
Posted by Jody Grigg on August 28, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Hey Buddy there is always another way to 'shoot the moon'
Very cool! I knew there would be moon shots here, but I really like the size of this one.
Posted by Kalin Wilson on August 28, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Nice, Todd! I can't wait to wade into my shots. I may try to merge a few. I was messing with exposures, especially during the partial eclipse to get different areas exposed well.
I use Noiseware and already planned on putting it to work, I'll let the powers that be know if it's up to the task.
Once Again -- NICE!
Posted by Roger Rouch on August 28, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Ultimately cool! I watched the eclipse unfold from my front room while drinking coffee and it was great. Glad you got such a nice photo of the drama, Todd.
Posted by Laurent Baig on August 29, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Discussion
8 repliesThis was 1-sec. @ f8, iso 800.
A smarter person than I probably bought a whole mess of stock yesterday in the company that makes Noise Ninja. I'll bet there will be a lot of folks, including me, who will use lunar eclipse photos as the final catalyst to buy that type of software.
Check back with this thread later this evening and I'll post a few more interesting pics from the night and morning.
I think you'll like noise ninja. I'm still working to figure out how to quickly come up with the image-specific settings for eliminating noise without losing a noticeable amount of detail, but it has saved dozens of high ISO images that would otherwise have been trashed. Most of the images that I posted in that Beartooth Storm storyboard thread had enough noise that the image was seriously compromised. NN worked wonders.
I combed through my shots and finally found a decent shot during totality. 1 second at ISO 800, f5.6. The XT isn't as forgiving as your 5D on noise, but the crop factor and pixel density are a reasonable tradeoff.
Noise Ninja has saved my bacon on a few shots already. It's well worth the minimal investment to be able to salvage high-ISO shots, especially when combined with darker tones.
I use Noiseware and already planned on putting it to work, I'll let the powers that be know if it's up to the task.
Once Again -- NICE!