Some pictures here.

casperwb said:
good luck ribid, hope you get some nice shots.

we will only get it as the moon rises in my part of the world, and it will still be daylight.

happy shooting.

No clouds, perfect sky and good some good shoots from my D7000 with a 70-300VR lens.. but following the adviceshere I have a problem: Stacking the photos with registax using the D7000 files crashes. any hint?

We received a nice cloud cover as a bonus ... the downside was that I was on one side of the clouds and the moon on the other.

rbid said:
Today (15/Jun/2011) we are having a full lunar eclipse in our region, starting at 20pm (17pm GMT) and ends at 2am (23pm GMT).

Any good advice..
- For the beginning/end, the sunny16 rule applies.. but not when the moon is fully covered.
- I will try to enhance the photos using the methods explained here.

Have a nice day...

good luck ribid, hope you get some nice shots.

we will only get it as the moon rises in my part of the world, and it will still be daylight.

happy shooting.

Here is a nice page on "How to photograph a Lunar Eclipse": http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html
Examples of photos are in: http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/photo.html#lunar

Looks like the skies will be clearing around 6pm here and will remain so for the night, the moon will be up right before sunset so hopefully it will be possible to get some shots. The added bonus is that the eclipse will start right before the moon rises so it will be right on the horizon and hopefully nice and red :)

Today (15/Jun/2011) we are having a full lunar eclipse in our region, starting at 20pm (17pm GMT) and ends at 2am (23pm GMT).

Any good advice..
- For the beginning/end, the sunny16 rule applies.. but not when the moon is fully covered.
- I will try to enhance the photos using the methods explained here.

Have a nice day...

10 shots stacked using registax .

I had great weather, set up camera, tripod, sighted the moons location on the prior evening, got the rise time from the internets, waited, waited, there it is behind the trees, slowly rising, slap, test shot, slap, oops that looks like crap on the lcd, slap, go to manual focusing mode, slap, focus better, shot, slap, slap, shoot, slap,slap, effin crap Florida's state birds are eating me slap alive, shoot, slap, run into house. Load shots, scratch, ugg they are terrible, scratch, delete, delete, scratch, PP like there's no tomorrow, scratch. Note to self never shoot at dusk in Florida without a prior bath in Deet. ( 300MM X DX factor are so so, specially when object is kinda far scratch away)

Well, Korea was clouded over by the Yellow Sands, and we were warned by the government to stay indoors or uses masks. Gee, how I love spring in Korea!

I really like that last shot. Much better than anything I got, but that's a whole 'nother issue.

@ Squamish- where's ET? ;-)

My dopey lessons:

1) check the clock on your camera--make sure you've adjusted for daylight savings time.

2) it's hard to predict exactly where the moon will rise in your location. A few degrees off means the moon will rise over the ugly apartment complex rather than the scenic island. Be prepared to move (if your location allows it).

3) conditions change rapidly during moonrise. I started out in manual and could not keep up. Ended up shooting aperture priority, AF-S, spot metering. Focus was hit or miss. Wondering if I should've chosen AF-C.

This shot was taken two nights ago, testing settings for the supermoon:

D7000/N70-300vr: 300mm, f/8, 1/400sec, iso 100

Unfortunately, a full moon high in the sky is an entirely different proposition than one low in the sky.

D7000/N70-300vr: 300mm, f/5.6, 1/3sec, iso 3200 (darkened one stop in PP)

That's a difference of 11.5 stops!

D7000/N70-300vr: 300mm, f/5.6, 1/25sec, iso 3200

That's two stops brighter (metered on moon) than the last one in 3 minutes real time.

rbid said:
@PB PM: Sharp photo.. it is a stacked one? .. another reason why a full frame is better..

Nope. Manually focused on the moon, settings were ISO800, 1/1000s, F10. I used a wired shutter release to make sure I got a sharp images. I took this photos with the 300mm F4 mounted via the dreaded stock tripod collar too. ;)

mike - beautiful
robert - nice

d3s + N70-200vr + TC17 - handheld

@scoobysmak: Thanks for the tips.. Murphy is always present...
@SquamishPhoto: Wow... can you share the settings you have used?
@PB PM: Sharp photo.. it is a stacked one? .. another reason why a full frame is better..

Here clouds ruined my wishes.. moonrise was nice but foggy.. and today is worse :(

guys, teach me, what's the best settings to shoot a moon? i've a d90 & 70-200 VR2 here.. thanks..

Nice one Squamish! Here is mine, kind of boring as it was too high in the sky by the time I got around to shooting. This is a 1MP crop from the 300mm F4 + 1.4x TC on the D700.

i got skunked tonight. Nothing but clouds and haze. If insomnia hits me again, i might try again, before the moon sets.

Well I took my shot at it, well a few actually. I had a few clouds but think I might have gotten one or two lucky possibles (needless to say I wish I had instant gratification on my F5).

Well here is what went wrong...chalk this up as a learning experience:

-Rule number one, remember that there are 8 batteries in stead of the 4 I normally carry for a flash, caught this early lucky for me.

-Rule number two, don't get really excited when you find you did have a roll of Velvia in the fridge (more on this later).

-Rule number three, remember to grab your tripod mount or buy and extra when you loan your other camera out.

-Rule number four, be patient the moon will appear sometime tonight....uh scratch that remember to reset your watch for the time zone your in and you wouldn't be waiting for an extra hour for the moon to appear (I haven't worn this watch in over a year, I wore it last night when the moon came up, its got a digital compass on it so that way I knew about where I should be looking, needless to say I never reset the time and didn't pay attention to it yesterday).

-Rule number five, just because you see some reflections in the viewfinder does not mean they made it to the film...this leads me to rule number six

-Rule number six, do NOT tighten a filter too tight so you can not remove it....AARRRRHHHH. (I tried a polarizing filter just to see if it was just my viewfinder having the reflection or would show up on the film, uh it was my viewfinder but now stuck with a polarizing filter my 70-200)

-Rule number seven, pack more film because that roll of Velvia expired back in 2009 and even though you still tried to use it...it didn't not want to be used (I admit this is the first roll of film that my camera would not advance and of course this is also when I went back to look at the date it expired, I will say I just had that one a commin).

Well for now that is all I can remember that went wrong hope someone gets a laugh out of it but maybe I got one or two shots of the moon that I will remember (like someone said something similar before...If I could only go out and get a 400mm 2.8 and a TC I can try again on any normal night)

cloudy down here, I can see it, but the night is not clear.

its behind the clouds and the shots show it as hazy, but it is huge.

sigh

plan b... get a Nikon 500 or 600mm and shoot it on a clear night.....dreaming

Crap, it's going to be snowing here in Southern Alberta.

Rain in Sydney for the next few days, so no clear skies unfortunately.

That's ok, I'll just wait the next 18 years or so until it happens again. Who knows, space travel might be viable by then :D

rbid said:
Ibut it seems that your dropbox prevents us to from looking at it.

soory I am new to drop box
does this link work

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15913272/moon/20110318-_PCC9954.jpg

sevencrossing said:
this was taken tonight

1/250 f8 D700 ISO 800 70-200 and x2 converter. Needles to say not full frame

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Photos/moon/20110318-_PCC9954.jpg?w=5700e752

I would like to see this photo.. but it seems that your dropbox prevents us to from looking at it.

The day is nice outside, lets see if clouds will not ruin my photo-session