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The event was still shot from Zafra’s Timeleps. Photo: Dan Zafra |
Capturing the total lunar eclipse is quite special, but a photographer took things to the next level. Dan Zafra During the lunar eclipse of the last week, saw the forecast for the period of high solar activity and traveled to the Alaska Arctic from his Las Vegas home to catch the rare event.
Arora trips are usually the best with a new moon as it ensures the deepest possible sky, increasing the visibility of Arora. This time was an exception, although the eclipse achieved a similar result. Zafra said, “The total lunar eclipse meant that the moon would turn black, allowing the northern lights to shine.”
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| Photo: Dan Zafra |
Getting time and space was an important challenge, Zafra said. He had to calculate where both the moon and the potential Arora were to ensure in the same composition. The location scouting was part of this process, although the subzero temperature was added to the challenge. He finally settled on a frozen lake to the south of Fairbanks, Alaska, which offered an uninterrupted horizon.
The weather also challenged the challenging things on the night of events. Zafra had to struggle with a temperature -23 ° C (-10 ° F) temperature, requiring mastery to feel in his fingers and switching between thin glove lines for coarse gloves. Cold temperatures also dry the battery quickly. He spared his jacket, excluded him as needed. He says that he used a total of six batteries between his three cameras.
It was estimated to be added to difficulty. “At one point, my timlaps framing was completely closed – Arora increased more in the sky, as much as I expected,” Zafra said. “I had to change the mid-sequence again, monitoring my other cameras.”
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| Photo: Dan Zafra |
Despite the challenges, the Zafra managed to capture several shots of the incident. A telephoto image, which was created using a 400 mm telephoto lens on a benaro poleris start tracker, enabled a close-up scene to show expansion on the surface of the moon. In the opposite direction of the spectrum, a 20 mm wide-angle lens allowed her to capture a detailed view of the entire scene, showing how grand Arora was. He also made a time of the event to show all this in speed, which you can see below.
Due to the extreme contrast between the Moon and the surrounding Arora, the final images included some post-processing. Zafra says he bracked several exposure during the shooting. They then used pixcesite to get details from the moon and Photoshop so that they could meet with the Arora background. Wide-angle image requires low editing, with a single risk for the moon and for a landscape. Timalapse was processed with Lrtimalapse.
Zafra says that out of all the images he captured that night, the telephoto shot is his favorite. “I have seen countless lunar eclipse and Arora separately, but never so,” he said. “It was as if the whole sky was working together to put it on a show.”
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