Posted by Scott Bean on January 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM
I thought I would add to the Blue Moon collection here at CSNP...I shot a series of 40 photos of the moon rising in hopes of putting together a time lapse video of it. My technique was not so good though and I had the camera moving around too much between shots...the time lapse video turned out to be very jarring to watch! Getting better at this gives me something to aim for this coming year I guess!
This is a composite of 4 shots as the moon was rising over a hill at Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake.
Canon 40D, Canon 100-400@380mm, f5.6, 1/15, ISO 400.
Happy New Year everyone!
Posted by Darren Huski on January 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Scott, that is a little different. Kinda cool. Although it looks like the river is tilted slightly left.
Happy new year!
Posted by Scott Bean on January 2, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Thanks the comments Darren and thanks for catching the tilt to the photo, I have a habit of overlooking that. Something else I need to work on in the new year...using my hotshoe bubble level more often!
Posted by Aaron Szabo on January 2, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Nice attempt! For time lapse video expect to shoot 24-30 frames for each second of finished video. A 10 second clip should be about 240 shots or "frames". 10 second shot intervals are basic standard. Of course with the intervalometer. Try it again!
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on January 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM
I like the use of the long focal length here Scott. I was hoping to do that myself but didn't find a suitable comp for the foreground. Gotta love the color of the blue moon last night. Glad you made it out.
Posted by Ken Bachman on January 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Interesting idea, Scott. I got off a couple shots also and was amazed at how fast the moon moves between images. How much time is there between your muliples on this shot?
Posted by Scott Bean on January 2, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Aaron: Thanks for the info! This is definitely something I want to keep working on. I just ordered an intervalometer. Can't wait to try it when it gets here.
Ken, all total there was about 4 min between my first shot and my last shot (which are included in the sequence). I didn't have my cable release with me so I was using the 2 second timer on my camera. I was surprised at how fast the moon seemed to be moving as well.
Posted by Tom Kennon on January 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM
Scott, interesting take on the moon.
Posted by John Moore on January 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM
This is cool, Scott. Good idea.
Posted by Larry Fischer on January 4, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Scott, different enough to get posted on "spaceweather. com" and maybe even astronomy picture of the day on NASA.
Go to spaceweather and follow the instruction. Photo has to be under 1 mb.
the fisch
Posted by Scott Bean on January 4, 2010 at 11:46 PM
Thanks for the info Larry! I'll have to check that out.
Discussion
11 repliesThis is a composite of 4 shots as the moon was rising over a hill at Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake.
Canon 40D, Canon 100-400@380mm, f5.6, 1/15, ISO 400.
Happy New Year everyone!
Happy new year!
Ken, all total there was about 4 min between my first shot and my last shot (which are included in the sequence). I didn't have my cable release with me so I was using the 2 second timer on my camera. I was surprised at how fast the moon seemed to be moving as well.
Go to spaceweather and follow the instruction. Photo has to be under 1 mb.
the fisch