[Leica] who's going to photograph the lunar eclipse tonight?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Before a half hour ago I'd getting at iso 64,000 wide open at f4.5 the fully
eclipsed moon it was blood / brown. Braced up against a tree. And a bus stop
post.

Just now I went out this time with my resin Gitzo from sunny France out
there in the below freezing and this time with thicker gloves not driving
gloves and I was shooting this time first with the bright top rim of the
moon showing at iso 250 stopped down a stop and a half to 5.6/8 at 200th of
a second. I need to get a cable release. They're more than a hundred bucks.
My self timer was set way too long like a half a minute. I was shivering too
much to figure out how to make it shorter. You could not get both the bright
half as well as the dark half the contrast was too great. We'll see how it
opens in Photoshop. I may be able to get both.
That's it for me tonight in the full shivering moon.


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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
mark at rabinergroup.com
Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb




> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:04:17 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] who's going to photograph the lunar eclipse tonight?
> 
> I got real good shots just now I was out there for almost an hour.
> If anybody gets better shots than I just got I'll eat it.
> Very red brown moon. A clear night here. Its 29 f out. Feels like 19 f.
> 300mm is not long enough. But will do in a pinch.
> It was 450 with the crop body. But his sensor is way better even way
> cropped.
> 
> A cab driver today was shooting with a 600 mirror lens on his D700 a few
> blocks from B&H. I needed some light black.
> He did not speak one word of English.  Not one single word.
> Did not know what "moon" was. Nice guy though.
> He handed me his D700 with 600 lens.
> I shot a picture with it of a sky scraper.
> He told me the lens, a Vivitar cost 129 bucks.
> I may pick one up. How bad could it be?
> For next millenniums full moon solstice eclipse. I'll come out of my time
> capsule.
> 
> Well I'm going back out there there are part of me not fully frozen.
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> mark at rabinergroup.com
> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov at charter.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:46:32 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] who's going to photograph the lunar eclipse tonight?
>> 
>> No Luck on my end, Port of LA.
>> I used my Google Sky Map in my phone to locate the Moon through the cloud
>> barrier.
>> I had to contend with this;
>> http://www.ustream.tv/spacevidcast
>> S.d.
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 20, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Stewart Kinner wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm up in Fort Bragg on the NW California coast and it's a miracle !, the
>>> rain that has been here for the past 5 or 6 days has stopped and the 
>>> clouds
>>> are blowing out and the moon is as bright and full as I have ever seen 
>>> it.
>>> Looks like I'll get to see and shoot it , what luck.
>>> All I need is a finger and a crooked cucumber pointing at it :)
>>> Stew
>>> 
>>> shiki soku ze ku
>>> ku soku ze shiki
>>> 
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