I know this one has probably been done a lot recently - the whole thing isn't going to happen again for another long time (that is a total eclipse on the winter solstice) so I got myself organised and took a few shots. It turned out pretty good for shooting with only a 300mm lens off my back deck in town without a lot of forethought (such as: "what are good camera settings for shooting an eclipse?"). The weather wasn't really cooperating either - there was a fair amount of high cloud and a number of larger ones that obscured the moon at times, but I shouldn't complain as it had been overcast and raining most of the day.
In the end I shot with a low ISO to combat graininess in the black areas, large aperture, and whatever shutter I could get with the other two settings. I also turned on the long exposure noise reduction feature setting on my camera. I compensated for the halo generated by the clouds by increasing the shadows in Picasa for processing. Not a lot else! I'm impressed with the amount of detail I got in some of the craters. I really should have a go at shooting a full moon in good conditions with a remote sometime, I think I would be suprised by the quality.
