Searching for photos of last night’s Blood Moon was a tricky endeavour. Every time a Supermoon occurs, social media is flooded with photos from the event. Last night’s rare Blood Moon amplified that social media sharing by 100 fold. Apparently everyone read my article about how to properly capture the Blood Moon, and they all ran out to photograph it!
Well, while I love that people are getting out and shooting, I wish people would be more honest about what the viewer is looking at. If it’s a composite of different locations, times, etc, that’s great! Just let the viewers know. Please don’t try to pass it off as a straight out of camera photo. Most anyone with a semi-trained eye can tell that it’s not.
Anyway, while searching on social media and photo sharing websites like Facebook, Instagram and 500px, I think I have finally found 13 great images that aren’t Photoshopped to all hell. It took me all day, believe it or not. Yes, the sequence photos require layers, but that’s not the compositing photoshop I am talking about.
So feast your eyes on 13 (mostly) real images of last night’s Blood Moon.
We would love to add to this collection, so if you have an awesome photo of last night’s Blood Moon, post a link in the comments! Must have some kind of foreground element to be considered.
Dallas, Texas by Mike Mezeul II
San Francisco, California by Sa Ma
Lemolo Lake, Oregon by Jasman Mander
Tucson, Arizona by Sean Parker
Maine by Mike Taylor
Mt. Shasta, California by Matt Granz
Salt Point State Park, California by Mike Shoys
Mount Hood, Oregon by Gary Randall
Maine by Jimmy Dau
San Francisco, California by Rodrigo Alvarez
Paris, France by Dainius Seven
London, England by Sal Alexander
Mt. Rainier, Washington by Barry Gregg
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Moon location is a bit of a problem too. In other words if that’s not where the moon goes but what made the picture “pretty” and umm, I hate to break this to ya.
Straight out of camera! https://instagram.com/p/8MPYYfLsyH/
Damnnnnn! I need that camera!
Seattle, from 30 miles away, and 2000′ up https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206627813205791&set=a.3483324013599.2145445.1586311123&type=3&theater¬if_t=like
–Mark Sharley–
This wasn’t the most recent one but the one before it
Great selection, Bono!! It was so much fun to shoot :) Wish it happened every weekend, haha!
Thanks Hilary!!! Yeah, I didn’t get a shot :(
Taken in the Superstition in Arizona
Only 4 exposures blended and nothing changed. One for the sky, one for the foreground, one for my self portrait and one for the moon
Many of these images actually are heavily photo shopped. You create the impression that they are only layered in order to display the transition, however that is not the case. Some are mixed focal length, wide for foreground and long for the moon creating the cut and paste that changes the moons relative size to the actual environment. Others have the moon moved such that it’s nether an actual capture nor a representation of the actual travel of the moon. Some are both. I understand giving the novice a hall pass to play in the “big boy game” , not wishing to rain on somebody’s viral parade and also selling the platform to display them. But suggesting they are actual images or even have the integrity of real images is quite demeaning to those of us who are actually capable of doing it.
Well @david_worthington:disqus, I can tell you the example image in my how to article does not have mixed focal length, as I took it…and it is one exposure…and I don’t know how to use Photoshop, so I wouldn’t even be capable of layering two different focal length images :)