Gavin, Nacho and I watched the eclipse over in Nassau Bay last night. I am a bit disappointed in the performance of my camera, because I really didn’t get many great shots. Many of the shots, especially those taken with longer shutter speeds during full totality, were too blurry to be useful despite the fact that I was shooting on a tripod both with and without the lens’s image stabilization turned on. It was pretty windy by the water though; my best guess is simply that the wind blew the camera around just enough to blur the pictures. They’re not so blurry that you can’t tell what I was taking a picture of, but I didn’t get any of the detail of the lunar topography that I expected to be able to capture.
When totality hit, I started shooting in RAW format, and the files were too big for me to transfer quickly to my server this morning, so I’ll have some of those tomorrow. In the meantime, here are the better shots from pre-totality.
The moon, pre-eclipse:
Our eclipse viewing spot:
Overexposed glowing moon:
Partial eclipse:
Overexposed just enough to show the red color:
Bonus picture of me looking very creepy taken through Ignacio’s camera with night vision: