How to photograph a Blood Moon or Total Lunar Eclipse. All photos by Gordon. Buy Gordon a coffee: www.paypal.me/cameralabs Gordon's book at Amazon: amzn.to/2n61PfI / Amazon uk: amzn.to/2mBqRVZ Like Cameralabs? Get the T-Shirt: redbubble.com/people/cameralabs/shop NASA Eclipse website: eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEdecade/LEdecade2021.html Sun Surveyor App: www.sunsurveyor.com/ #bloodmoon #eclipse #photography
EXACTLY! The guide of course works for any lunar eclipse BUT I timed it to coincide with the one on 26 May. Visible from Oz, NZ and America, but sadly not Europe this time. I hope you have clear skies! Get scouting for a location!
@@cameralabs I definitely will be! I live in Canberra our small bush capital. In renting a 400mm 5.6 and using it with a 2x teleconverter and adapter to my eos r or r6. Should get nice and close 😁
@@JoshuaMcTackett I love the old 400 5.6, I've used it on 3 solar eclipses now! Never on a lunar though, strangely. Remember 800mm equivalent will get you really close to the Moon, but you may prefer to shoot it at 400 and try and get some foreground location / monument in there. Try experimenting with compositions during the day and using Sun Surveyor to plot the path
I find that on a DSLR it's necessary to use live view and 10 times magnification for precise focus. On the 27th of July 2018 I got a lot of blurry photos until I figured that out. By the way, quite a few people had chosen the same spot to watch it, but they all left before it was dark enough to even see the moon. It was fully eclipsed when it rose. At 10 PM they all left, and it was only after 10.30 that it began being dimly visible, and my best pictures all came after 11 when the eclipse neared its end. Mars was also visible lower in the sky, and the landscape was still visible too, so I got some very nice pictures, although I'd always wish for more sharpness. I used the Canon Eos 70D + Sigma 150-600 Contemporary + Manfrotto 161 mk2B - the largest and sturdiest tripod I know of.
Seems pretty cloudy here in Brighton. I’ve downloaded the sun surveyor lite but doesn’t seem to show moon. Is it only available in full version ? Btw do we get to witness full eclipse from Brighton today ? Any pointers for location to see the rise in the Brighton beach side ?
I managed to get some great shots of this last Blood Moon just using my Nikon B700. A couple weeks later I purchased my first Sony Alpha camera, the a7s, to continue learning Milky Way photography. I tried using our Canon 650d for Milky Way but the Sony is just so much clearer. Now I’m wondering if I should have bought the Sony a7iii instead for the higher megapixel to allow for bigger prints 🤔 That tower shot with the moon is absolutely incredible!!!
Great video to prepare for the Nov 8, 2022 eclipse. Here in Hawaii, at the start of the full eclipse, the moon will be only a few degrees from vertical. That's going to be a tripod challenge. Fortunately, the eclipse will last a long time, so I'll get plenty of chances to get it right.
Lunar eclipses are great as they last soooo much longer than a solar eclipse, and are more frequent too, so the pressure is way lower. if it's high overhead though, not much chance to line it up with a building or landscape, but you can still aim for some nice clean and colourful images. Hope my tutorial helps and good luck!
I've found Lunar eclipses to be as hard (if not harder) to shoot as Solar eclipses. Sure you get longer to get that shot but a 1 second exposure during totality at f5.6? The moon would be blurred, surely? We'd be shooting a fast moving but dim/dark object flying across the sky... That's not easy unless someone has an aperture of around 2.8, right?
As you know, the Sun, Moon, planets, stars all appear to move across the sky and if your exposure is too long for your focal length, then yes, you'll see motion blur and even trails eventually. So the trick, as with freezing any motion, is to work out what's the slowest shutter you can get away with for a given focal length - and it depends on where the are in the sky too. Once your shutter can't go any slower, you have to either open your aperture more or increase the ISO to get the exposure you desire.
So if it's happening at moon-rise for your location, it's going to happen shortly after sunset in the Eastern sky as the moon rises. So look for possible scenes in that direction. Good luck!
To be honest I HATE the term, and only really started to see it being used in the last 5-10 years by the media, particularly in America. But now everyone who's not an astronomer uses it, so I have to use it if I want the video to be found. It used to annoy me a lot more until I realised the more people looking into the sky and enjoying nature and science is a good thing, even if they use a daft name for it.
How to photograph a Blood Moon or Total Lunar Eclipse. All photos by Gordon.
Buy Gordon a coffee: www.paypal.me/cameralabs
Gordon's book at Amazon: amzn.to/2n61PfI / Amazon uk: amzn.to/2mBqRVZ
Like Cameralabs? Get the T-Shirt: redbubble.com/people/cameralabs/shop
NASA Eclipse website: eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEdecade/LEdecade2021.html
Sun Surveyor App: www.sunsurveyor.com/
#bloodmoon #eclipse #photography
This is the type of content I love. Thanks for the tutorial.
You're very welcome, hope you get to put the tips into practice!
Excellent information and guidance for shooting the moon. Thank you!
You're very welcome, I hope you also get a chance to watch my other Moon photography tutorial!
Great video...and tower shot "jpeg straight out of camera with no post processing' was brilliant, Gotta try that app, too; looks so handy.
Excellent tutorial! Thanks!
You're welcome! Hope you get to photograph a lunar eclipse soon!
Thank you Gordon for this great video I have learn a lot from it:)
You're very welcome!
How very timely Gordon! We have this happening next week in Australia!
EXACTLY! The guide of course works for any lunar eclipse BUT I timed it to coincide with the one on 26 May. Visible from Oz, NZ and America, but sadly not Europe this time. I hope you have clear skies! Get scouting for a location!
@@cameralabs I definitely will be! I live in Canberra our small bush capital.
In renting a 400mm 5.6 and using it with a 2x teleconverter and adapter to my eos r or r6.
Should get nice and close 😁
@@JoshuaMcTackett I love the old 400 5.6, I've used it on 3 solar eclipses now! Never on a lunar though, strangely. Remember 800mm equivalent will get you really close to the Moon, but you may prefer to shoot it at 400 and try and get some foreground location / monument in there. Try experimenting with compositions during the day and using Sun Surveyor to plot the path
Thank you Gordon for this great video ...
You're very welcome!
Thanks for the great information! :)
I find that on a DSLR it's necessary to use live view and 10 times magnification for precise focus. On the 27th of July 2018 I got a lot of blurry photos until I figured that out.
By the way, quite a few people had chosen the same spot to watch it, but they all left before it was dark enough to even see the moon. It was fully eclipsed when it rose. At 10 PM they all left, and it was only after 10.30 that it began being dimly visible, and my best pictures all came after 11 when the eclipse neared its end. Mars was also visible lower in the sky, and the landscape was still visible too, so I got some very nice pictures, although I'd always wish for more sharpness.
I used the Canon Eos 70D + Sigma 150-600 Contemporary + Manfrotto 161 mk2B - the largest and sturdiest tripod I know of.
Thank you! This is excellent.
question, did you use a full frame camera for these photos? and if so, is that what you recommend vs. m43?
perfect
Thanks!
Seems pretty cloudy here in Brighton. I’ve downloaded the sun surveyor lite but doesn’t seem to show moon. Is it only available in full version ?
Btw do we get to witness full eclipse from Brighton today ? Any pointers for location to see the rise in the Brighton beach side ?
great app... sun surveyor !
It is very useful!
I managed to get some great shots of this last Blood Moon just using my Nikon B700. A couple weeks later I purchased my first Sony Alpha camera, the a7s, to continue learning Milky Way photography. I tried using our Canon 650d for Milky Way but the Sony is just so much clearer. Now I’m wondering if I should have bought the Sony a7iii instead for the higher megapixel to allow for bigger prints 🤔
That tower shot with the moon is absolutely incredible!!!
Thanks, have fun with your astrophotography!
It's a waste that lockdown on most country and I could not go over to Sydney for it. Hoping someone will do a nice one over there. Good luck to all :D
Great video to prepare for the Nov 8, 2022 eclipse. Here in Hawaii, at the start of the full eclipse, the moon will be only a few degrees from vertical. That's going to be a tripod challenge. Fortunately, the eclipse will last a long time, so I'll get plenty of chances to get it right.
Lunar eclipses are great as they last soooo much longer than a solar eclipse, and are more frequent too, so the pressure is way lower. if it's high overhead though, not much chance to line it up with a building or landscape, but you can still aim for some nice clean and colourful images. Hope my tutorial helps and good luck!
when i look it only by eyes it seems not red when i take it a pic it looks red
I've found Lunar eclipses to be as hard (if not harder) to shoot as Solar eclipses. Sure you get longer to get that shot but a 1 second exposure during totality at f5.6? The moon would be blurred, surely? We'd be shooting a fast moving but dim/dark object flying across the sky... That's not easy unless someone has an aperture of around 2.8, right?
As you know, the Sun, Moon, planets, stars all appear to move across the sky and if your exposure is too long for your focal length, then yes, you'll see motion blur and even trails eventually. So the trick, as with freezing any motion, is to work out what's the slowest shutter you can get away with for a given focal length - and it depends on where the are in the sky too. Once your shutter can't go any slower, you have to either open your aperture more or increase the ISO to get the exposure you desire.
In my location said that this lunar eclipse is going to happend in moonrise in western Us its a moonset
Im ganna subscribe you thanks for this video by the way
So if it's happening at moon-rise for your location, it's going to happen shortly after sunset in the Eastern sky as the moon rises. So look for possible scenes in that direction. Good luck!
It's not a blood moon. It's orange, not red. Who started that melodramatic juvenile name?
To be honest I HATE the term, and only really started to see it being used in the last 5-10 years by the media, particularly in America. But now everyone who's not an astronomer uses it, so I have to use it if I want the video to be found. It used to annoy me a lot more until I realised the more people looking into the sky and enjoying nature and science is a good thing, even if they use a daft name for it.
Wait have u never observe one before
@@boyfriendyt44 I have seen seven or eight Total Lunar Eclipses.
started when fairytale bible stories began
i already caught this on my phone
Wow first. I've made it :)
Welcome!
So umm are we gonna die?
We all die, but it's never as a direct consequence of a lunar eclipse.
I should watch the vid now...I never get success with the moon :(
Definitely - and please also watch my main moon photography tutorial afterwards as it will really help!
@@cameralabs Thanks very much will do.
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