During the Eclipse

I woke up early Saturday morning and went to the beach to take some shots of the eclipse. I was hoping to get the setting moon over the water, but when I arrived at the southwest-facing beach, I soon realized that the moon was not where I thought it would be. For some reason I just assumed the moon would follow roughly the same course as the sun, and would set somewhere in the southwest sky. I was off by about 90 degrees and the moon was still over the mountains. This makes perfect sense after thinking about it a little, something I should have done before I got up at 4:00 am. The moon soon disappeared behind some clouds and this was one of the few shots that was worth processing. Photographing an eclipse was a lot harder than I thought.
Thanks,
Rudy

D700, 70-300mm @300mm, 50% crop
f11 @ 1.0, ISO 2000

Check out The Photographers Ephemeris, a free app for your computer or smartphone. It's amazing: you pick a location, zoom in on Google Maps, pick the date, and then it draws two lines across the map, one for the path of the sun and one for the moon, as well as the sunrise and sunset times. You can easily pinpoint exactly where the moon will be at any given time. If you are really into it, and watch the instructional videos that they give a link to, you can figure out when the sun will rise or set over a mountain (like in Yosemite).

http://photoephemeris.com/

Love the warm glow!!! Nice negative space, too. Well done.

Tony, I remember hearing about this site but forgot the name. I keep this handy next time.
Thanks for the comments,
Rudy

Really nice clarity, Rudy.