From the course: Photographing and Assembling a Lunar Eclipse Composite

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Prepping the position-reference sequence

Prepping the position-reference sequence

From the course: Photographing and Assembling a Lunar Eclipse Composite

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Prepping the position-reference sequence

One of the things that I did when I photographed this eclipse was to set up a second camera with a wide angle lens to record shots that I could use as a reference for how the moon moved across the sky. While our final composite relies on a fair amount of artistic license, I wanted to present a reasonably accurate view of the eclipse as I experienced it at this location. Unlike the 100 millimeter lens I used for the primary moon shots, the wide-angle lens captured the moon and the landscape. By combining these files into layers using the light and blend mode, I was able to make a reference for the path of the moon in relationship to the landscape. So these files here have already been sized down to a much smaller size. They're only 800 by 533 pixels. And the reason for that is that these are just purely reference shots. They're not going to be used for anything. So they don't need to be high res at all. And in fact, some of the exposures are not very good. I was not at all concerned…

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