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At the end of January, precisely on January 31, 2018 will happen a lunar eclipse Super Blue Blood Moon. where the moon's orbit is closer to the earth, so the moon looks so great. Surely you will capture this rare moment. If you have a DSLR camera with enough lenses, of course this event can be captured properly, but for most people who only have a smartphone camera, can it capture it? Of course, I can. I have some suggestions for you to be able to capture it well.
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If you want to capture a picture of a month like this, a smartphone camera can do it, with the help of a telescope or a minimum of binoculars, or add a smartphone-specific telephoto lens with sufficient enlargement.
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With a smartphone camera without the help of a magnifying lens, we can still capture the lunar eclipse well from the presentation of landscape photos, can combine with nature, trees, cities, even silhouette roofs, depending on your creativity. Photographs of the moon with a shape just a small white sphere with a void of sky around it, which captured the smartphone's camera better.
Here are some suggestions to capture lunar eclipse images with better smartphone cameras.
If possible, choose a high enough dark location. The location is high
usually not many obstacles and a pretty dark location allows us
take photos that focus more on the moon, because the light around the light
can affect the image results.
Smarthphone camera is now equipped with manual mode (pro), where we can set the amount of ISO, EV, the length of openings, AWB, and compensate well enough and the moon is not over bright
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In this manual mode photo, set the focus distance of the camera with manual focus to infinity, and set the composition well. The moon does not need to be always in the middle, the composition of the rule of third can be used. To make it easier, the camera can be displayed on the camera displayed grid lines, to assist the composition. This good composition that enables lunar eclipse photos of smartphones kia deserve to be showcased in social media.
For those who do not have pro or manual mode on their smartphones, can try some applications both in playstrore and appstore, like camera manual, FV-5, and so forth. Some smartphone cameras also support taking pictures with RAW mode, or uncompressed images, so the image data is still complete as is. Those who master photo editing can try this mode for maximum editing.
Unless our camera has an optical zoom, do not zoom in the digital image
to take a photo. Digital zoom will look rough, and actually the same
with later photos we have taken can be cropped. For details that stay good when cropped, always use the maximum megapixels from the camera.
Use a tripod, either a large tripod or a mini, or put your smartphone camera on an immobile piece, such as a wall, a stone, or a fence. Night photos are easy to blur, especially if we use a longer shutter speed, so the smartphone camera really should be silent.
do not forget, clean the camera lens too, to get the image really focused, and use a timer eg 2-5 seconds on the camera settings, so that new photos are taken after a few seconds we press the shutter button, so that the picture really move, not shaken our fingers.
notice the monthly schedule of changes that we can find in many places. with this schedule we have the preparation and can take pictures of the interesting moon changes, and the full moon or bloomon, until the eclipse and back again. Take each moment that can be displayed one by one, or combined with a photo editing app to get a moving and changing moon picture.
Happy hunting photos lunar eclipse, and do not hesitate to show off in social media.