Total solar eclipse
Aug 4, 2017 00:21:14 #
I shall probably photograph the event in manual mode making sure all light sensors are switched off.
Aug 4, 2017 00:50:11 #
btbg wrote:
I've been assigned to shoot a large music festival... (show quote)
Sounds like you will be in my back yard, so to speek. Are you a local? If not, and you are staying in Prineville? then I can guarantee you that it takes way more than 45 mi to get to Big Summit Prairie. It takes that long just to get to the road split to Walton lake, on a normal day. Of course there is the other road that heads to Post. (Never been that way) you will be driving a dusty, bumpy, 1 1/2 lane road up in the Ochoco's. If it were me.... I would camp out up there the night before, partake in the wild party festivities and be there for the eclipse. As for me... I will be sitting here in Prineville in my back yard chilling. Then at 10:20.14 start shooting the total eclipse. We will have 1min 10.6 sec of totality. Enjoy the crowds. BTW we have gone more than 30 day's without rain. Be careful about pulling off the roads. The grass can catch fire under your car from the catalytic converter. The Forest fires at Mt Jefferson are not contained. About 1/3 of Oregon is shrouded in smoke. We may not be able to get a clear shot. Even at Madras or Big Summit Prairie are currently in smoke too. Do I think the forest fires will be out by then? I hope so. History says "maybe". Second item...do not depend on your cel phone here in town. I doubt the cel service can handle the volume of calls, even in town. As for Big Summit Prairie, I have never gotten service there, only spotty at the top of the mountain near Walton Lake. You might consider renting a Satillite Phone. Good luck and Happy Shooting
Aug 4, 2017 01:44:51 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
jcboy3 wrote:
I expect to get awesome shots of the eclipse washing over a monstrous traffic jam in central Wyoming. Everyone from Denver is going to be up there, and they don't have the roads for it.
Your right in my opinion. That is why I am going up Saturday. That way I know that I will be in the shadow no matter what. Where the problem lies is if the weather clouds up, it may make it difficult to move to an area that will have clear skies. Out of the three eclipses I have been to, one was clouded out two minutes before totality. Talk about disappointment! It still is an experience under the clouds, but not like it is when one can actually experience totality.
Aug 4, 2017 02:13:40 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
Fotoartist wrote:
Using Live View will or will not hurt the camera sensor and/or your eyes?
For a DSLR with a mirror, when one goes to Live View the mirror flips up blocking the sunlight from going through the viewfinder. You can look through the viewfinder, but because the mirror is up you will see nothing. The really danger in looking through the viewfinder during Live View is if the exposure completes itself and the mirror flips down with your eye at the viewfinder. Unless you are able to move literally at the speed of light, you will be blind in one eye. Either use a solar filter that cuts out the UV and IR and attenuates the visible light to a safe level for all partial eclipse phases, or go blind. Only during totality can the filter be removed and one can look at the shadowed sun. DO NOT BE LOOKING THROUGH THE VIEWFINDER AT THE END OF TOTALITY. Again, as soon as the sun appears, that sunlight will burn your eye at the speed of light.
If you want to be able to look through a viewfinder during an eclipse, go rent a mirrorless camera. The light going through the lense can not find a path to your eye. With a mirrorless camera, one can only view what is on a very small TV screen, not direct sunlight.
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