I shot this, below, a 7 frame multiple exposure of the lunar eclipse, from Memorial Drive in Cambridge. There was no “photoshop” or “stacking” post process. This was an in-camera production. I used a tripod, a Canon EOS- 1DX camera, a Canon 100-400mm 11 lens, and a Canon 24-105mm lens. I also used a sharpie magic marker and a piece of clear tape, I will explain the tape and marker later. I used the short zoom lens to shoot the skyline. I then used the 100-400mm, at 400mm, to shoot the moon’s phases at roughly 14 minute intervals, by using the Live View function of the camera. That is, I viewed, live, the scene from the large screen on the back of the 1DX. That is how I used the tape and marker to help me line up the moon(s). The moon’s exposures started out at 500asa (iso) at 1/1000th of a second at F5.6-ish, and then I gradually had to compensate for the shadow by giving it some more time, like 1/500th, 1/250th and so on down the line unit a very slow shutter speed was needed to get the red in the last moon. There is some artistic license involved here, i.e the moons are bigger in my photo and lower than one would have seen with the naked eye. My shot appeared in the September 28th edition of the Boston Herald.
Archive for September, 2015
My Technique/Settings for Shooting Boston’s Lunar Eclipse/Super Blood Moon, 09/28/15.
by markadmin Posted: Monday, 9/28/2015
Cardinal O’Malley headlines the re-dedication of Dorchester’s Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy
by markadmin Posted: Sunday, 9/27/2015Below are my bostonherald.com photos of yesterday’s event.
Student Devin Allen, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Robert Atchinson, Peter Lynch, Jack Connors, and Jack Sebastian cut the ribbon on the re-dedication of Saint John Paul 11 Catholic Academy Lower Mills Campus, on Dorchester Ave.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh is greeted by student Devin Allen, 4th grade, at the re-dedication of Saint John Paul 11 Catholic Academy Lower Mills Campus, on Dorchester Ave.
Lisa Warshafsky, Principal of Saint John Paul 11 Catholic Academy Lower Mills Campus, hugs student Orianeh Byron Gabelus at the re-dedication of the school on Dorchester Ave.
Students sing at the re-dedicated Saint John Paul 11 Catholic Academy Lower Mills Campus, on Dorchester Ave.
Cardinal Sean O’Malley reaches for the Book of Prayers prior to blessing the newly re-dedicated Saint John Paul 11 Catholic Academy Lower Mills Campus, on Dorchester Ave.
Cardinal Sean O’Malley blesses the newly re-dedicated Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy Lower Mills Campus, on Dorchester Ave.
Ed Forry and Cardinal O’Malley.
Governor Charlie Baker summed up the feelings of most in attendance at the Massachusetts State House by briefly pausing to shed a tear, as he recalled a family visit to the World Trade Center towers shortly before the attacks, on this date, 14 years ago. Below are my Boston Herald photos from the ceremony at the Massachusetts 911 memorial, in the Public Garden, the State House ceremony as a bell was sounded for every Massachusetts’ victim as their names were called, and then the Sweeney award presentation, named for the heroic flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney who died in American Airlines Flight 11.
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. An emotional Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker speaks at Friday morning’s State House ceremony where the names of the Massachusetts’ victims of the September 11 terror attacks were read aloud. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Flowers are left at the Massachusetts 911 memorial during Friday morning’s ceremony commemorating the14th anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks . Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh is seen at Friday morning’s ceremony at the Massachusetts 911 memorial. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Christie Coombs, the wife of Jeffrey Coombs, who died in the September 11 terror attacks, is seen at Friday morning’s ceremony at the Massachusetts 911 memorial. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Marc Sanchez holds a photo of his father Jesus Sanchez, who died in the September 11 terror attacks, as his mother Lynn Greene snaps a photo at Friday morning’s ceremony commemorating the14th anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks, at the Massachusetts 911 memorial. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Relatives and friends of the Massachusetts’ victims of the September 11 terror attacks, place flowers at the Friday morning’s ceremony at the Massachusetts 911 memorial. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Albeiro Gomez, of Worcester, is presented with the 14th annual Madeline Amy Sweeney Award, named for Sweeney, a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that was hijacked and crashed on September 11, 2001, at a Friday morning ceremony at the State House. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Brian Miller, whose brother Craig J. Miller, a US Secret Service officer and victim of the September 11 attacks, rings a bell at the State House to commemorate each name that is read aloud, of the Massachusetts’ victims of the September 11 terror attacks. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Jairo Castro, who lost his mother Gricelda James in the terror attacks of 2001,and his children, from left, Gwendolyn and Gricelda, are seen at Friday morning’s State House ceremony where the names of the Massachusetts’ victims of the September 11 terror attacks were read aloud.fStaff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
Alexander M. Filipov’s image was projected, along with the other Massachusetts’ victims.
Peter Matthew West’s image was projected, along with the other Massachusetts’ victims.
09/11/2015-Boston,MA. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and his wife Lauren are seen at Friday morning’s ceremony at the Massachusetts 911 memorial. Staff Photo by Mark Garfinkel
The natural world dominated my August 2015 photos of the month. I photographed lightning, many moons, and more lightning photos, along with coverage of some tragic violence in our area. As always, thanks for viewing my photos. The following were taken during and after my shift as a Boston Herald photographer.
August 20, 2015. Heavy fog over Boston’s Logan airport.
August 20, 2015. Heavy fog over Boston’s Logan airport.
August 29, 2015. Boston’s setting moon, at 5:36am.
August 29, 2015. Boston’s setting moon, at 5:33am.
August 27, 2015. An almost-full Boston moon emerges from behind a colorful cloud at sunset.
August 4, 2015. Lightning strikes over Boston’s Financial and Seaport Districts during Tuesday afternoon’s thunderstorm activity.
August 18, 2015. Lightning strikes over and to the rear of 1 International Place in Boston Tuesday afternoon as a line of thunderstorms pushed through.
August 15, 2015. Lightning strikes in back of Boston’s Prudential Center during a late afternoon thunderstorm.
August 15, 2015. Lightning strikes over a Winthrop neighborhood.
August 15, 2015. Lightning strikes to the rear of South Boston high school.
August 4, 2015. Lightning strikes behind Boston’s Back Bay.
August 4, 2015. Lightning exits Massachusetts’ coast, between Winthrop and Quincy.
August 15, 2015. Late night thunderstorm over Dorchester/Quincy, as seen from Winthrop.
August 4, 2015. Lightning strikes over South Boston during the morning commute.
August 5, 2015. The Winthrop fire department tests a new fire engine as an Air France 747 lands in the background.
08/11/2015-Boston,MA. Boston firefighters watch as a car hangs off a driveway onto Roxbury’s Cedar St. Tuesday afternoon. No serious injuries were reported.
08/13/2015-Boston,MA. People, believed to be friends and/or relatives of one or both of the men gunned down on Ernst St. last night, console each other Thursday afternoon in that Boston neighborhood.
08/29//15-Boston,MA Syla Rapaglia, age 11 years, sits at the makeshift memorial for the child known as Baby Doe, whose body was found at Deer Island on June 25. Skla’s mother organized the 2nd vigil for the missing child, held tonight.
08/07/2015-Boston,MA. Joe Casper, Boston fire dept. acting District Chief, works at the scene of a 3 alarm fire at 6 Waverly St. in Roxbury today.
August 20, 2015. Massport’s fireboat American United in #Boston/Winthrop. Named for 2 airlines in 911 attacks.
