Update: This photo has been removed in flickr. Sorry folks.
Lunar Eclipse by Chad Trettin, originally uploaded by twm1340.
Chad Trettin is a professional photographer based in Bozeman, Montana. This sequence covered 3 1/2 hours. I got this in an email circulating around, hope it’s okay to post.
This photo was Explore’s #43 for 26 February 2008. Good work Chad!
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How can I purchase a copy of this beautiful photograph?
Come on people. This is a totally doctored photo……duh the stars are stationary for one, you would see the stars track across the sky…….check out that photo again and think about it.
Chad Trettin,
I would like to purchase a 8×10 photo of Lunar Eclipse. Please reply.
Bob
I don’t understand why the horizon-to-horizon series of shots took only 3-!/2 hours.
Chad,
It’s still a nice photo, even if it is photoshopped. If not let me know the what equipment you used and your technique, because I doubt this look can be achieved with a multiexposure setup. Nonetheless, it’s a nice compilation.
Chad, your Illustration of the lunar eclips is beautifully done. It amazes me that anyone has the talent to create something like this in such a short time. For thoes that choose to disparage the use of photoshop to creat art I have but one question. Can you do it?
You can purchase a 20×18 or possibly other sizes of this lunar eclipse photo by contacting Chad Trettin at catrettin@hotmail.com
PLease visit CHADTRETTIN.COM
I absolutely love what you have created with these shots. Well done.
Ya I gotta throw a wrench into this love fest. The moon in this so called carefully planned sequence according to ‘chad’s’ positioning (he would have to be south of Bozeman to take this shot) shows the moon rising in the Northeast and setting almost in due North.
That’s pretty much astronomically impossible. Having been raised in Bozeman he would have had to be a little more north and facing more east and even if the claim of a wide angle is used then Sacagawea Peak would have to be more centered in order for you to have captured the actual moon rise.
Chad … Montana is beautiful enough in it’s own right without this kind of superimposed nonsense
Plus the stars don’t move which would also happen in time elapse photography
thank you for the comments people. I believe you should check out http://chadtrettin.com/. Chad does say that it is doctored and not a proper photo
Definitely a doctored photo. In the real world the image on the face of the moon will seem to rotate clockwise as it moves from east to west. In this sequence the image is the same at each station. It would only look this way in the east.
I was just sent an email from awesomefotos so I re-read this thread. Thanks for all the feedback. I do want to say something to TheMonkey about his comment. You are incorrect about your assessment of my camera position. The moon actually DOES rise over the Bridgers from the location I was in on that day. I was West of Bozeman, Facing East (Bridger mountains run North to South) on Norris Road about 7 miles east of Four Corners. If you look on google maps, zoomed in real close, you will see the 3 little grain silos right next to the road. Go ahead and check it out. The lower left moon, or first full phase, is actually the exact location of the moonrise on that particular date. The rest of the phases are obviously arranged (none were rotated, just moved) into the pre-conceived arc for the purpose of demonstrating the eclipse’s progress in a single shot. And to Arthur, I don’t know of the ‘face’ rotates or not but the total time between full to full phases is only 3.5 hours. You wouldn’t expect much rotation to take place in that amount of time. It’s not meant to dupe people into believing Bozeman’s view of the lunar orbit is warped. I didn’t post this image on this site, someone else did – it got around quite fast. I included a description with my original post that clearly states the image is a MONTAGE of many exposures. But I appreciate your scientific evaluation and I hope it helped clarify to all the astrologically-challenged out there that the moon does not rise and set over the same horizon.