I ran across this video by Alex Mukensnable, posted on APOD a few weeks back, it’s a very neat video of the Feburary 2008 lunar eclipse from the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Took me long enough to get to this, so here it goes.
Simple shot really. I was asked to take some photos of a couple of fresh roses. I decided that since this was going to be a single light shot, I’d go for a black background reminiscent of many macro shots, but obviously this isn’t a macro shot. If I had a second light I would probably have thrown some light on the background to add some interest and depth.
Taking a quick detour from photography, I saw this on Video Sift the other day and after reading though the commentary (some of which were way off) I thought it was worth taking a few minutes to explain what’s going on, at least as far as I understand it. But first the video.
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