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Full Moon, Eclipse and Airplane

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Posted by John Lehmkuhl on August 28, 2007 at 6:02 PM
Curious what you think. I shot this last night during the Eclipse. I had an airplan fly right across the moon when I took the in focus shot for this 2 image composite. Lucky me but I'm thinking I might remove the foilage and just have the moon and flight path of the plane.

Nothing I'd be able to print really huge, but still interesting, I thought.

Larger version:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1259879974&size=o

20D and 70-200 f4L with 1.4x teleconverter
2.5sec at f/5.6
iso800
PSCS3
Posted by Hans Hibbard on August 28, 2007 at 6:10 PM
The moon is awesome John. The jet is difficult to see at this size. I'd prefer this without the foliage...I think the moon stands on its own here and the foliage require to much attention.
Posted by Sean Bagshaw on August 28, 2007 at 6:16 PM
John, great composite of two exposures on the moon. Most people don't realize how huge the contrast is between the shadowed and light sides of the moon during an eclipse. I took some similar multiple exposures, but so far have not had much luck combining them to get a natural looking moon as you have. Mind sharing your technique?

I agree with Hans on the foliage.
Posted by Ned Fenimore on August 28, 2007 at 6:21 PM
That's a sweet looking hunk of cheese!! :biggrin:
Posted by Jerry Roseburrough on August 28, 2007 at 8:04 PM
Great shot and I would remove the leaves also. I should have been up and tried.
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on August 28, 2007 at 8:04 PM
Sean, you are so right - when the moon truly hit outside of the earth's shadow, it was amazingly bright. This show was just BEFORE that really happened thus no blown out for the brighter side.... I got lucky on the timing for this one.

Here is a shot of just the moon. Wish I knew the HTML to embed this image into my message, but I'm not that savy.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1137/1262190604_84b007aefd_o.jpg