Christmas Eve 1968
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Christmas Eve 1968
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Painting
Description
Earthrise is the name given to NASA image AS8-14-2383, taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first manned voyage to orbit the Moon. That was 50 years ago this week!
Initially, before Anders found a suitable 70 mm color film, mission commander Frank Borman took a black-and-white photograph of the scene, with the Earth's terminator touching the horizon. The land mass position and cloud patterns in this image are the same as those of the color photograph entitled Earthrise.
The original photograph was taken from lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, with a highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL with an electric drive. The camera had a simple sighting ring rather than the standard reflex viewfinder and was loaded with a 70 mm film magazine containing custom Ektachrome film developed by Kodak.
The digital painted effects and texture on this image were added much, much, much later...
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January 30th, 2015
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Gary Richards
I had the opportunity once to meet a person who was involved with this space mission and had an original image of Earth from space. Wonderful post-processing of this special image, Jon!
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