Solar Eclipse - Something is Missing: Something is missing! Currently via Search reviewing responses to questions regarding the forthcoming eclipse in preparation for speaking...

CliffMcKenzie Loc: Lake Athens Texas

Something is missing!
Currently via Search reviewing responses to questions regarding the forthcoming eclipse in preparation for speaking engagements.
No one has ever mentioned...wait for it...you can practice before the event. Gimbal vs. ball head? Degree angles? Which lens? which filter? How many stops? Camera settings? Speed bracketing? And get this...you can do it from your own backyard.

Bill_de Loc: US

CliffMcKenzie wrote:

Something is missing!
Currently via Search reviewing responses to questions regarding the forthcoming eclipse in preparation for speaking engagements.
No one has ever mentioned...wait for it...you can practice before the event. Gimbal vs. ball head? Degree angles? Which lens? which filter? How many stops? Camera settings? Speed bracketing? And get this...you can do it from your own backyard.

Maybe no one mentioned it because they are all in their back yards practicing.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CliffMcKenzie wrote:

Something is missing!
Currently via Search reviewing responses to questions regarding the forthcoming eclipse in preparation for speaking engagements.
No one has ever mentioned...wait for it...you can practice before the event. Gimbal vs. ball head? Degree angles? Which lens? which filter? How many stops? Camera settings? Speed bracketing? And get this...you can do it from your own backyard.

???
I'd just use a tripod, lens for the desired field of view, meter on the sun, maybe bracket. Just like any other subject.
Why turn it into rocket science?

CliffMcKenzie Loc: Lake Athens Texas

Longshadow wrote:

???
I'd just use a tripod, lens for the desired field of view, meter on the sun, maybe bracket. Just like any other subject.
Why turn it into rocket science?

I see you live in PA. You will have only seconds for a partial not total eclipse. The shadow is moving at 1,678 mph. Best results for totality will be speed bracketing starting at 1 second moving to 1/1000th using a fixed aperture...you see, it really is rocket science.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CliffMcKenzie wrote:

I see you live in PA. You will have only seconds for a partial not total eclipse. The shadow is moving at 1,678 mph. Best results for totality will be speed bracketing starting at 1 second moving to 1/1000th using a fixed aperture...you see, it really is rocket science.

Not for me.....
Not losing any sleep over it.
No totality where I am located, maybe 70%?

Maybe one should shoot video and extract images......

And wait, it will probably be cloudy that day.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I never thought about the possibility of practicing.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

AzPicLady wrote:

I never thought about the possibility of practicing.

df61743 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX

CliffMcKenzie wrote:

I see you live in PA. You will have only seconds for a partial not total eclipse. The shadow is moving at 1,678 mph. Best results for totality will be speed bracketing starting at 1 second moving to 1/1000th using a fixed aperture...you see, it really is rocket science.

It depends on where in Pennsylvania you are... Observers in Erie, PA will see totality.

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html?Lat=42.13090&Lng=-80.12805&Elv=182.0&Zoom=7&LC=1

Also, YOU are moving at close to the same speed as the shadow. Relative to an observer the shadow is moving much slower, and an eclipse may be shot at a MUCH slower speed than 1/1000 sec. Think of looking at the Sun. Does it appear to be moving across the sky at 1,678 MPH? With the right filter, you could take a picture of it at 1/30 sec. or less.

Dick

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

df61743 wrote:

It depends on where in Pennsylvania you are... Obs... (show quote)

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

df61743 wrote:

It depends on where in Pennsylvania you are... Obs... (show quote)

You're dead on the money. You don't need 1/1000 sec. exposures.

*** But if you're shooting a partial eclipse you'd better have a solar filter on the lens/telescope! ***

bwa

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CliffMcKenzie wrote:

I see you live in PA. You will have only seconds for a partial not total eclipse. The shadow is moving at 1,678 mph. Best results for totality will be speed bracketing starting at 1 second moving to 1/1000th using a fixed aperture...you see, it really is rocket science.

You seem to be making it more complicated than need be.

Then why does it take so long for the shadows on the ground from objects to move?

MRHooker2u Loc: Kingston, WA

Longshadow wrote:

???
I'd just use a tripod, lens for the desired field of view, meter on the sun, maybe bracket. Just like any other subject.
Why turn it into rocket science?

DO NOT forget a proper solar filter. Otherwise, you will ruin your sensor.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

MRHooker2u wrote:

DO NOT forget a proper solar filter. Otherwise, you will ruin your sensor.

I know, or did you intend to remind the OP?

MJPerini

Remember even a small sliver of the sun can be dangerous to people and cameras.
Be safe, Have fun

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

For the 2017 total solar eclipse, I starting practicing months before the event. I made my own solar filters out of solar filter film from Thousand Oaks Optical and cardboard. I tested the solar filters on various cameras I had back then and found acceptable aperture, ISO and shutter speeds to use before and after totality. You need to take off these filters to photograph totality, otherwise it will be too dark.