Submitting my obligatory Eclipse photo
Aug 21, 2017 13:14:08 #
Aug 21, 2017 13:54:07 #
Best I've seen so far, and it will be tough sledding to surpass this.
--Bob
--Bob
MrBossHK wrote:
My take on the event of the day.
Aug 21, 2017 14:12:34 #
MrBossHK
Loc: The West Valley of Phoenix metro area
rmalarz wrote:
Best I've seen so far, and it will be tough sledding to surpass this.
--Bob
--Bob
Thank you Bob. Just an attempt to throw some levity into the much-hyped event. My apology in advance if I selected the wrong section and perhaps triggered any members to get wadded up over it.
Aug 21, 2017 19:14:41 #
...unlike what some people may say, that will Not rub out with a little compound !!! 
Aug 22, 2017 08:04:33 #
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Aug 23, 2017 15:16:20 #
Aug 25, 2017 16:50:22 #
I made my initial post to the wrong topic. Hope this is the right one.
Norborne, population 708, is the self-proclaimed Soybean Capital of the World and holds a Soybean Festival every year during the weekend of the second Saturday in August. I chose this site to view the solar eclipse to avoid the crowds and traffic that was surely to descend on nearby Kansas City, St. Joseph and Lathrop. This city is 60 miles east of Kansas City.
This town was apparently on few people's radar, even though it is just a few hundred feet from 'ground zero,' because when I arrived at 4 am, I was the first one there. Within six hours around 9 cars were parked nearby. The sky was a solid cloud, and it rained off and on, with the occasional thunder and lightning. By noon with not even knowing the location of the sun due to the dreary skies, I had given up all hope of seeing the eclipse, and had mentally accepted that I would just video the darkening skies.
At just past noon, all the other cars had left, probably assuming that seeing that stellar event was a lost cause, and headed for other possible sites where there might be better weather. However, around 12:30, I noticed a break in the clouds to the south. It kept getting larger, and then around 12:50 pm, I could make out the sun's location. I took my first photo of the partial eclipse stage just after 1 pm as the last remnants of cloud cover around the sun disappeared. The skies around the sun became crystal clear at 1:05 pm, just 4 minutes before totality was to start.
I thanked the weather gods, and then stood in awe for about 20 seconds to view one of nature's grandest spectacles before I started taking photos. I had to compose myself, as my fingers were shaking a bit from all the excitement and anticipation that had built up awaiting this grand event.
I used a Canon 7D Mark II. The partial eclipse photos were done with the Canon 100-400 Mark II. I cut a circular piece of solar film from an 8 x 8 sheet and sandwiched it between two UV filters to make my own solar filter. At totality, I used a Sigma 150-600. All shots handheld. F9 used for all shots. Autofocusing used throughout. Bracketing sequence for all shots: -2, -1, 0, +1, +2.
For HQ photos and four short videos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ersten/albums/72157685578090803
Norborne, population 708, is the self-proclaimed Soybean Capital of the World and holds a Soybean Festival every year during the weekend of the second Saturday in August. I chose this site to view the solar eclipse to avoid the crowds and traffic that was surely to descend on nearby Kansas City, St. Joseph and Lathrop. This city is 60 miles east of Kansas City.
This town was apparently on few people's radar, even though it is just a few hundred feet from 'ground zero,' because when I arrived at 4 am, I was the first one there. Within six hours around 9 cars were parked nearby. The sky was a solid cloud, and it rained off and on, with the occasional thunder and lightning. By noon with not even knowing the location of the sun due to the dreary skies, I had given up all hope of seeing the eclipse, and had mentally accepted that I would just video the darkening skies.
At just past noon, all the other cars had left, probably assuming that seeing that stellar event was a lost cause, and headed for other possible sites where there might be better weather. However, around 12:30, I noticed a break in the clouds to the south. It kept getting larger, and then around 12:50 pm, I could make out the sun's location. I took my first photo of the partial eclipse stage just after 1 pm as the last remnants of cloud cover around the sun disappeared. The skies around the sun became crystal clear at 1:05 pm, just 4 minutes before totality was to start.
I thanked the weather gods, and then stood in awe for about 20 seconds to view one of nature's grandest spectacles before I started taking photos. I had to compose myself, as my fingers were shaking a bit from all the excitement and anticipation that had built up awaiting this grand event.
I used a Canon 7D Mark II. The partial eclipse photos were done with the Canon 100-400 Mark II. I cut a circular piece of solar film from an 8 x 8 sheet and sandwiched it between two UV filters to make my own solar filter. At totality, I used a Sigma 150-600. All shots handheld. F9 used for all shots. Autofocusing used throughout. Bracketing sequence for all shots: -2, -1, 0, +1, +2.
For HQ photos and four short videos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ersten/albums/72157685578090803
Aug 25, 2017 17:17:01 #
MrBossHK
Loc: The West Valley of Phoenix metro area
[quote=Oyster321]I made my initial post to the wrong topic. Hope this is the right one.
Excellent photo coverage of the magnificent event, and your written account of the experience was well done also.
Excellent photo coverage of the magnificent event, and your written account of the experience was well done also.
Aug 25, 2017 19:40:43 #
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