Saturday, March 10, 2007

Field Trip

There is another lunar eclipse on Tuesday, August 28. I believe this one will actually be visible from our area, as opposed to the last one which the West Coast missed out on.

I want to take a picture of it, with something interesting in the foreground, but I don't know what. Can you give me ideas?

*The city of Reno (ie, downtown)
*Mountains?
*Waterfall?
*Tahoe?
*The planetarium?
* The Black Rock Desert?

Help!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about...


Yourself Or a person watching. Take the pic from behind them

Ken, Alicia, Abby, and Ethan Lund said...

How about a Cape Cod lighthouse?

Ken, Alicia, Abby, and Ethan Lund said...

I've always thought Delicate Arch in Moab, Utah would be a nice backdrop for a sky-shot.

Anonymous said...

What would be the opposite of a lunar eclipse? I'm trying to think of something that would contrast a blood, red moon at night. A coppery moon... it's night time and so...

Nevermind. I got nothing.

Anonymous said...

Oh wait... how about people who are totally oblivious to the amazing phenomenon?

Or how about a group of people cowering in fear?

How about both and you display them side by side?

-Dave said...

Now all I need is recruits to pose for a photo at 3am. 3am is good for the view of the eclipse (high in the night sky), but bad for people being awake.

The moon will be in the south-west in the sky, so I can't have anything that requires me to face east.

I might try a composite image - a long exposure for city lights, or cars on a road, or just for contrast, and shorter exposures for the moon itself.

Fortunately, if I totally blow it, there's usually a couple eclipses per year. Unlike solar eclipses, when I have to wait about another decade before travelling to Missouri to see a total solar eclipse. I hope. That one will take some plans, and can be ruined by an inopportune cloud.

Ken, Alicia, Abby, and Ethan Lund said...

How about a Nevada ghost town like Belmont, Rawhide, Rhyolite, even Austin or VC, ect. There's potential for some really interesting and eerie photos?

-Dave said...

The moon over the haunted schoolhouse in VC. That could be interesting...

I have to confess to not being fully aware of where the abandoned cities in Nevada are. But I think those are really good ideas.

They're all good, so for. Kepp 'em coming!