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Circle of the Moon


 

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Circle of the Moon
Circle of the Moon
Lunar eclipse of October 27 2004.

Composite of eclipse phases. Starting from the leftmost picture, the clockwise sequence of images shows the progress of the eclipse. Every two images are separated by 4 to 8 minutes. The difference in brightness between the fully lit moon and the fully eclipsed moon is over 1000 times, or 10 stops.

The Photoshop file is almost 1GB :)

Fedor G. Pikus

 
 
 

Janet L. Skinner
 

Really Cool, Fefor!!!! Read your description but still don't know how you did it.....


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November 08, 2004

 

Fedor G. Pikus
 
 
  Partial eclipse
Partial eclipse
One of the many shots which went into the "Circle of the Moon" composite.

Fedor G. Pikus

 
 
Other than the size it's a fairly standard composite job: each shot is taken with 10D and 100-400L lens, all pictures stacked on separate layers in PS CS and arranged around an ellipse I used as a guide. Background sky is almost black, I just painted it with color sampled from one of the shots. I've attached one of the original shots.


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November 08, 2004

 
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