'tis the moon........

I took my camera upstairs with me and when I woke in the night, got up to shoot the moon. My inspiration for this venture came thanks to Mike @mikegifford who posted advice in response to a query from another 365er.

The camera: my Sony a6000, hand held (elbows on the window sill).

An OK-ish shot of the beginning of the lunar eclipse was not too difficult to capture. But the blood moon was nigh impossible and I nearly gave up. The actual spectacle was far superior to my photo but at least I have a record of the event.

For this perigee blood moon shot I used f6.3, ss1/20, ISO auto (3200), 1.7 ev, spot metering, 210mm and fill flash.

For years I had a p&s and knew not much about photography. For the last two years I've had more sophisticated equipment and I'm learning all the time, big thanks to 365.

[Sgt. Pepper]

Excellent.

[Kane Arlow]

Fantastic results, I have a lot to thank 365 for as well.

[Elize]

Stunning detail

[Bep]

Fantastic pictures. Too cloudy here.

[Lin]

Gorgeous - love the way you presented this!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wonderful shots.

[Lady Magpie (Heather)]

Lovely captures, I stayed in the land of ZZZZZZZZ all night.

[Sandy]

This is awesome, Hazel. I had so looked forward to taking some shots myself, but it was very cloudy over here and the moon never peeked out long enough to get a good shot.

[bkb in the city]

A couple of nice shots

[Molly]

Pretty impressive to see these side by side - and well done for making the effort to get up and take some shots!

[Margaret Brown]

Nice capture and collage, I stayed up too and have done a collage, I didn't get the final shot and had to rely on my son for that!

[Rosan]

Wonderful!

[Quinn]

Wow, amazing!

[Penelope Ann]

Well done

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome collage.

[Karin Hirsch]

Very good capture,I found it hard to to get a decent shot as well and did a lot of settings

[Denise Wood]

Terrific captures Hazel :) Fav

[Pat Knowles]

You did better than me Hazel & took some time to,plan. Great job!

[wendy frost]

Super diptych Hazel with your brilliant captures and good you did your homework to get them.

[Richard Hickey]

Congratulations on making the PP. Well deserved.

[Arthur Loosley]

Congrats on making the Ppage, Hazel. You got the eclipse, but I slept throughj it!

[Hazel]

@wordpixman

Arthur I think you might have been the most sensible as I got up twice in the night for these shots, spent ages with camera settings for the blood moon before I got it right and had to go back to bed midday the following day!!! Thanks for the comment and fav. I hope you are doing OK.

[Hazel]

@wendyfrost

Wendy, it sometimes strikes me that I have been doing 'homework' all my life!! Thank you for your comments.

[Rosie Kerr]

Quite the effort, but good for you to try! We were cloud-covered over here, so it was very disappointing. Camera settings can be so fiddly, when one is nervous about getting a shot, too. Well done.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great shots- it was nothing but clouds here and I was so disappointed!

[Caroline]

Great shots! And hand-held as well!

[Linda Plummer]

What dedication Hazel. I was too tired to think about shooting the moon. Great capture.

[Nicole]

Beautiful collage! it was quite an event, well worth getting up for :)

[Hazel]

@nicoleterheide

It was, wasn't it - I got up twice!! Was shattered the following day!

[Nicole]

@quietpurplehaze Mum and I set our alarm at 4 a.m. and got back to bed at 4.45 since I had to get up at 6.30 again.