March Madness Lunacy - Blood moon lunar eclipse sequence with basketball hoop - composite Metal Print

Just had to have a little fun creating this composite shot from the lunar eclipse sequence that I shot on Jan 20, 2018, combined with a local Stoughton basketball hoop that I shot later, just for this very purpose.. The starry sky background is shot at roughly the correct focal length and angle (looking south) to match the scene, but is laid in separately to add additional impact.

Images captured with Pentax K-1. Lunar images with Pentax DA*300mm lens. Basketball with Pentax DFA28-105mm.

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...