A digital SLR was used to capture images of the Moon at regular intervals (shooting various exposures every minute or so) as it transitioned from full into the Earth's shadow. I then sifted through all those images and layered 26 shots of the Moon at roughly five-minute intervals. My intent was to represent how the eclipse looked as the Moon moved through the Earth's shadow. In all I spent nine hours scouting locations and taking the pictures, and then another five or six hours making the final product.
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