I hope you guys/gals found time to watch the total eclipse tonight!! It was an absolute sight to behold!!
The dark shades of red during totality were absolutely beautiful!! I recently bought a little pocket sized digital camera and I thought I'd try to take some pictures of the moon. After much experimenting with settings and many failed attempts.... I did manage to turn out some photos. It's my first digital camera so I'm not exactly an early adopter as it relates to photography....Hahahahah
This is while the eclipse was in progress. I wish I had another chance at this because I had the shutter speed set too fast to expose the eclipse progress properly. Once I finally figured out what I did wrong on these, I was in totality. (Clouds rolled in after totality and I missed my chance to take better ones as the moon exited from the shadow)
This is a partial eclipse shot...........
These are a couple at/near totality..............Saturn is to the lower left of the moon, and I believe that is Regulus above. Thanks 10010011 for straightening me out...LOL
Here is another......
All in all..... my little pocket cam did much better than expected. Especially for a non-photographer hack like myself....LOL
The best results were at 2 second shutter speeds. It's all my cheap little tripod could handle without blurring horribly. Even at that speed 3 out of 4 blurred....LOL I even tried up to 15 second exposures, but it blurred every time. (too much wind) The longer exposures really brought out the colors nicely.....to bad they didn't turn out!!
PS....it was FREEEEEZING outside!!
