I adore the moon, absolutely love it. The sight of a full moon makes me shiver with happiness. I had taken a couple of photos of the moon last night in preparation for the lunar eclipse and they were horrible, boring, lifeless photos of a white globe in the sky.
Luckily for me and for you as well, I have a very clever and supremely patient daughter who talked me through the aperture and shutter speed settings on the camera. I was pressing buttons and twirling knobs and nothing was changing when voila I magically found the right combination of sideclick,press and twirl and the aperture and shutter speed revealed themselves to me.
So without further ado and a great big round of applause to Veronica, she of the sleepless nights and cloudy skies, here are my photos of the lunar eclipse over Tasmania.
and for those of you who this technical stuff means anything I used a Nikon D90, freehand with a 200mm lens, aperture of 8 and shutter speed of 800.
The full moon just before the eclipse.
The beginnings of the eclipse.
It is all happening by now and my nose was very very cold, luckily for me I could keep on racing back inside to thaw out.
This last shot was the moon just before sunrise at about 6.30 am on a frosty Sunday morning.
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Ohhh they are soooo pretteh! 🙂
Great detail of the moon. Clever girls!
Twas bucketing down here so I stayed indoors.
Those photos are brilliant 🙂
Stunning shots! The clarity on the moon’s surface is wonderful :O
Glorious Kim! How clever you are – and V too!
Wow, what incredible moon pictures!! In awe.
Beautiful pics!
Hi there Kim, oh wow thank you so much for putting these photos on face book, i missed it last night and was so disapointed that i forgot to look, but thanks to you i get to see. im tanyas sister by the way. love your page here xxx
Wow! Thanks for sharing such incredible photos BG Xx
A team effort – brilliant!
Beautiful capture!! I too love the moon 🙂
You lost me at aperture and shutter speed setting, but the photos are really lovely. I have no idea when it comes to night photography.
That second last one is brilliant!
I only saw a small peek at the eclipse as it was cloudy here overnight, so thank you for posting these.
Lovely lovely lovely!
Such a shame, I didn’t get to see it. My little person refused to go down at her normal bed time last night. Ugh!
Superb pics. Techno details wasted on moi but generous of you both to share that with the rest of us with our phone cams!