Lunar Eclipse by Gideon van Zyl
Gideon van Zyl

Lunar Eclipse by

Yes, I know everybody has uploaded something. I just wanted to add my two cents worth to what we are contributing as a group of photographers. This from Kempton Park, South Africa from my driveway.

I shot it with my faithful old Canon EOS 7D, with a Sigma 120-400 at 400 mm with a Sigma 2 x converter. Settings were:
ISO 3200, 1/2 a second, f11, Distance from te subject according to the camera was 4,294,967,295 Meter. Or something over 4 million km.

The photo is as it was taken – not twiddling except converting it from RAW to JPG, since Redbubble still does not seem to like RAW images.

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About Gideon van Zyl

I started on a little Kodak Instamatic camera when I was quite small and eventually started with SLR photography on my Dad’s old Pentax Spotmatic in the late ’70s.

Photographers like Yousuf Karsch, Annie Leibowitz who have grown up in the age of film and have captured the world inspire me, whereas modern digital photographers and techniques challenge me to always renew what I am doing and how I am looking at things.

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  • Elizabeth Kendall
    Elizabeth Kendall12 months ago

    Mooi! Uniek.

  • Dankie Liz!

    – Gideon van Zyl

  • Maree Clarkson
    Maree Clarkson12 months ago

    PRAGTIGE foto Gideon! Het ’n stywe nek gehad na 2 ure se kyk!

  • Ek het dit gemaklik gedoen, Maree. Ek was vroeg in die aand by die bekendstelling van ’n cd in Midrand, en het toe met ’n tripod in die parkeerterrein van die venue gestaan. Slegte idee. Die maan was hoog, so mens noet omtrent op jou kniee staan om te probeer neem. Besluit ek toe op ’n nuwe strategie.

    Ons gaan toe huistoe en ek het so ’n heerlike groot swaar ou Libec tripod wat ons gewoonlik vir videowerk gebruik. Ek kry toe ’n gemaklike stoel, ’n warm jas en gaan sit toe in my driveway met die kamera en lens opgestel, en ek sit gemaklik in die stoel, en vat my tyd met elke shot. Maak seker die fokus is 100% skerp, al my stellings is reg en op my tyd snap ek toe ’n mooi reeks.

    Al wat ’n bietjie ongemaklik was, is die feit dat die maan so vinnig beweeg. EK moes ’n paar keer my stoel se posisie verander. My volgense missie is om erens in die oop vedl waar daar nie so baie ligte is nie te gaan sit en rustig die sterrehemel af te neem.

    – Gideon van Zyl

  • Maree Clarkson
    Maree Clarkson12 months ago

    4 Miljoen kilometers, ongelooflik!!

  • Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos
    Konstantinos A...12 months ago

    17 June 2011 – 2 images per day

  • Thank you for accepting my submission to the group :)

    – Gideon van Zyl

  • Julienne  Bowser
    Julienne Bowser12 months ago

    Well Done! it was awesome to see ;)

  • yes – it was special and spectacular :).

    – Gideon van Zyl

  • gail woodbury
    gail woodbury12 months ago

    Excellent capture !! – Love it !

  • Thank you Gail!

    – Gideon van Zyl

  • Elizabeth Kendall
    Elizabeth Kendall12 months ago

    23 June 2011

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