This one looks like there is some cauldron up in the sky opening up to create the eclipse to me. Like some celestial pot was boiling and an incomplete moon is seen as a part of it's missing. 
As some of you might know, for the Lunar Eclipse I drove over 7 hours yesterday going out to Joshua Tree first, not liking the conditions there (but getting a nice sunset and Super Moon rise) and then driving to the beach, where it also started to get too cloudy and also was too humid. I didn't want to have to deal with fogged up lenses. I then drove back home where it was the clearest view in the middle of the city.
So a lot of driving just to end back up where I started, I got back about 1:30am just before the Penumbral stage of the eclipse was to begin, so I had just enough time to set up cameras. Even here I had some thin clouds that were floating into the scene, but fortunately not as thick as out at Joshua Tree or at Newport Beach. in fact these clouds were thin enough to create some really cool conditions! Though, the bad news with the clouds was I needed to constantly be checking and changing my exposures as the clouds would make the moon darker, so I had to then change the exposure so I could still see it. And of course, at 600mm I was having to move my composition to keep the moon in the image. Lot's of work, but I think it was worth it!
Now when this ground of clouds floated over I had to check and change my exposure, and I saw the way the clouds looked? I almost jumped for joy as even in the back of the display these clouds had such a very cool look to them. Looking at the time, I took this one at 2:52am, and hour into Eclipse process.
Tamron 150-600mm @ 280mm
ISO 64
f8
1 second
The 1 second still captured the moon sharp, but looking back I should have raised up my ISO to maybe 400 so I could get a faster shutter speed just to give me a little more margin of error.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
As some of you might know, for the Lunar Eclipse I drove over 7 hours yesterday going out to Joshua Tree first, not liking the conditions there (but getting a nice sunset and Super Moon rise) and then driving to the beach, where it also started to get too cloudy and also was too humid. I didn't want to have to deal with fogged up lenses. I then drove back home where it was the clearest view in the middle of the city.
So a lot of driving just to end back up where I started, I got back about 1:30am just before the Penumbral stage of the eclipse was to begin, so I had just enough time to set up cameras. Even here I had some thin clouds that were floating into the scene, but fortunately not as thick as out at Joshua Tree or at Newport Beach. in fact these clouds were thin enough to create some really cool conditions! Though, the bad news with the clouds was I needed to constantly be checking and changing my exposures as the clouds would make the moon darker, so I had to then change the exposure so I could still see it. And of course, at 600mm I was having to move my composition to keep the moon in the image. Lot's of work, but I think it was worth it!
Now when this ground of clouds floated over I had to check and change my exposure, and I saw the way the clouds looked? I almost jumped for joy as even in the back of the display these clouds had such a very cool look to them. Looking at the time, I took this one at 2:52am, and hour into Eclipse process.
Tamron 150-600mm @ 280mm
ISO 64
f8
1 second
The 1 second still captured the moon sharp, but looking back I should have raised up my ISO to maybe 400 so I could get a faster shutter speed just to give me a little more margin of error.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
