Partial lunar eclipse
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On Wednesday early morning I went to Stanford University to experience the rare celestial trifecta: A supermoon (14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual), a blood moon (lunar eclipse where the moon is in the shadow of the earth), and a blue moon (the second full moon in a month) at the same time.
The different in brightness on a partial lunar eclipse is very large, too big to capture the full dynamic range with a single exposure. I captured two exposures, one for the illuminated part, one for the red part. They were 4 stops apart. I combined them with HDR processing. The resulting image looks balanced, actually almost too balanced. What do you think?
The 600mm long Tamron lens on a A6000 crop sensor camera becomes 900mm, which makes the moon appear to be very close.
I processed balanced HDR photos from two RAW exposures, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Sony A6000, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC3436_7_hdr1bal2d.jpg
Partial lunar eclipse
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
On Wednesday early morning I went to Stanford University to experience the rare celestial trifecta: A supermoon (14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual), a blood moon (lunar eclipse where the moon is in the shadow of the earth), and a blue moon (the second full moon in a month) at the same time.
The different in brightness on a partial lunar eclipse is very large, too big to capture the full dynamic range with a single exposure. I captured two exposures, one for the illuminated part, one for the red part. They were 4 stops apart. I combined them with HDR processing. The resulting image looks balanced, actually almost too balanced. What do you think?
The 600mm long Tamron lens on a A6000 crop sensor camera becomes 900mm, which makes the moon appear to be very close.
I processed balanced HDR photos from two RAW exposures, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Sony A6000, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC3436_7_hdr1bal2d.jpg