Butchered Lunar Eclipse montage for the 28 August 2007

[h0ughy]

yes I have made my own ugly creation, I call it Moon-age 101, well doesn't even get to that. I am a lazy sod, should have done this justice, but only have spent minimal time on it.

[iceman]

It's an account of the event from start to finish Dave, you should be pleased.

[RB]

Dave I think it looks Wonderful !!!
A unique presentation of a beautiful event.

You should be proud.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks guys - should see the original file size - PSD file is 1.5gig, created jpeg is 56meg and then from that the small file i created for the forum was 117kb.

the cloud ruined the early shots - I never got the sequence until it started to enter the umbra, I wanted to catch the penumbra. Lucky I got what I did I suppose

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

Wow – that is a stunning lunar eclipse timeline, a real labour of love in terms of acquiring, processing and layout. Looks real grand mate, well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[sheeny]

Good one Dave!

Al.

[Omaroo]

I know where you're coming from David - my collage ended up killing my home computers' virtual memory handler. I cut it down to 16 decent-sized images in the end as it was too bulky to work with. The working image was approaching a couple of GB - and that was in GIMP!

I plan to take all of my shots to work and fire up one of our quad-processor G5 Macintoshs with 16Gb of memory. This beasty should do the trick and allow me at least to manipulate the whole thing in real memory rather than paging in and out of disk all the time. Hopefully I'll be able to create a collage with all 200+ images I took a couple of minutes apart. You need a proper imaging machine (like these Macs - or PC's with equivalent power) to do it succesfully.

Good work by the way. :)

Cheers
Chris

[h0ughy]

LOL this was processed entirely by converting the 240 DNG files to full res Jpeg then creating the sheet in PShop CS2 all on a compaq laptop with a 14.1 screen 128meg ram video and 1 gig memory and a 40 gig HDD and a sempron 3000 processor:whistle:

[Garyh]

Now that would be the most complete eclipse sequence ever taken!!
Well done Dave..:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks Gary,

it would have been a lot better if the cloud was not there - a few shots had to wait until the moon was visible.

[acropolite]

Nice work h0ughy, would make a nice wallpaper.

[h0ughy]

what size would you like Phil?;)

[jjjnettie]

You beat me to it Phil.

Seriously though, that is a monumental effort David. Well done.

[h0ughy]

Thanks JJJ, I am looking forward to getting aposter size print done in photo paper - have to wait until the guys at work do a photo run on the plotter.:whistle: