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Full Composition of Lunar Eclipse

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It required approximately eight hours of work today (not including all the time spent preparing my gear and shooting), but I managed to put together a full composition of last night's supermoon lunar eclipse (photo below). This composition is comprised of twelve images... eleven shots of the moon as it rose into the starry sky (chosen out of approximately 300 images I shot)... and one shot of the starfield which was in the background of this rare show. The final composition is 6000 x 4800 pixels which would make a beautiful high resolution 8"x10" print. If necessary and if I desired, I suppose I could even produce a high resolution 16"x20" print of this composition.  My original plan was to try to capture a few good images of the eclipse. I had never shot an eclipse before so I was prepared for problems and I tried to keep my goal simple. I kept saying to myself,  "I'll be happy with just a few good images of the blood red eclipsed moon."  Ev

A New Interest For Lukey

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Lukey was excited to use one of my cameras... This past weekend, 3 year old Lukey tried his hand at shooting some photos while we were at Shelburne Farms.   He was having a little bit of trouble holding the camera upright even though he was using my smallest, lightest camera but he managed to capture a few good shots. I think his hands are still slightly too small for even my smallest camera. It was good to get those little fingers working though! I set the camera to a fully automatic setting and then asked him if he wanted to shoot a few photos as I offered him the camera. He quickly figured out how to review photos after shooting... then how to get back to shooting... he did very well. That being said, he was a bit fussy about the wriststrap staying on his wrist. Every time I turned around to see how he was doing, the wriststrap was just dangling in mid-air. It's amazing he never dropped the camera! One purpose of handing him one of my cameras was to give him some pract