topic Re: Blood Moon Fail in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Blood Moon Fail

axepilot — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 05:31:49 GMT

I went out tonight to get some some pics of the Blood Moon Eclipse. It was cool to watch......my photography, however sucked.

Nature conspired against me - 10 degrees with winds gusting to 40 MPH, and drifting clouds. It was COLD........

I used the 75 / 300 kit lens with a tripod and a remote shutter trigger, manual focus, shutter priority.Live view crushed my night vision, so I t went with the eyepiece, display turned off. My main problem was the moon at near zenith, and my tripod being about a foot shorter than I am. I had a hard time scrunching under the tripod in screaming winds to try to pull focus. All of my pics are blurred.

Good lesson, I guess..................I have lots to learn.

Re: Blood Moon Fail

cicopo — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:20:57 GMT

I suspect you had a serious challenge with the weather conditions plus fact it's in eclipse vs being lighted. As a FYI this link is to a few other attempts & I expect it will grow. As a second FYI conditions here were full blizzard & extreme cold. No way to see any of it unfold.

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1580242/

Re: Blood Moon Fail

ebiggs1 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:10:25 GMT

I didn't even get to see it. Totally socked in with clouds and winter stormy weather. Oh well there is always 2023.