First (and probably last) solar eclipse photo shoot
Apr 9, 2024 02:38:33 #
24Megapixseal
Loc: Kansas
I was in Westlake, Texas at my brother-in-laws house... For 1 minute 57 secs of Totality... Captured some BONUS Coronal Mass Ejections during the "Diamond Ring" and "Bailey's Beads" 👍🏻
Clouds came in AFTER totality and blocked the downhill side of the eclipse... We had clouds before and after, but was totally blessed with a huge break in the clouds during totality...with stars, Jupiter, and Venus easily seen with the naked eye.
Non-totality shots were with the D3500 with non-VR AFP 70-300 on tripod, with K&F Concepts ND100000.
Totality shots were with the D5600 with VR AFP 70-300, handheld, no filter.
Then we immediately hit the road to head back to Kansas, due to forecasted hail and bad weather in Westlake... The roads (traffic) weren't bad at all on I-35 Northbound!
Clouds came in AFTER totality and blocked the downhill side of the eclipse... We had clouds before and after, but was totally blessed with a huge break in the clouds during totality...with stars, Jupiter, and Venus easily seen with the naked eye.
Non-totality shots were with the D3500 with non-VR AFP 70-300 on tripod, with K&F Concepts ND100000.
Totality shots were with the D5600 with VR AFP 70-300, handheld, no filter.
Then we immediately hit the road to head back to Kansas, due to forecasted hail and bad weather in Westlake... The roads (traffic) weren't bad at all on I-35 Northbound!
Apr 9, 2024 07:27:52 #
Apr 9, 2024 09:19:34 #
All are excellent. The third one is the same one I got in Arizona where the moon seems to be touching the sun spot.
Apr 9, 2024 11:03:10 #
24Megapixseal
Loc: Kansas
Alberio, I was purposely waiting for that "kissing the sun spot" photo...
The weeks before the eclipse, practicing on the normal sun, I found that sunspot photography is interesting as well, using the SOHO website to see when there were lots of spots, then run out and go snap a few photos... With my setup, 1/800s, f11, ISO 100 works Everytime!
My first sunspot photo/finding the SOHO website was an accidental thing, while taking a sunset photo in the Black Hills of South Dakota when there was heavy smoke in the air from the Canada forest fires... Be hooked ever since!... Just another fun thing to do with the camera with traveling... I'll try to find that and post it
The weeks before the eclipse, practicing on the normal sun, I found that sunspot photography is interesting as well, using the SOHO website to see when there were lots of spots, then run out and go snap a few photos... With my setup, 1/800s, f11, ISO 100 works Everytime!
My first sunspot photo/finding the SOHO website was an accidental thing, while taking a sunset photo in the Black Hills of South Dakota when there was heavy smoke in the air from the Canada forest fires... Be hooked ever since!... Just another fun thing to do with the camera with traveling... I'll try to find that and post it
Apr 10, 2024 12:57:54 #
Apr 13, 2024 08:58:25 #
Very nice solar eclipse photos. It makes me wish even more that I could have made it to the path of totality.
BTW, I think I can see that the photos after the first five have been rotated by about 70 degrees or a bit more from the first ones. How about the last couple? Simply curious. --Richard
BTW, I think I can see that the photos after the first five have been rotated by about 70 degrees or a bit more from the first ones. How about the last couple? Simply curious. --Richard
Apr 13, 2024 10:37:02 #
24Megapixseal
Loc: Kansas
Profbowman, all of the photos are of the same orientation, no varying rotation.....
The "diamond Ring" photo doesn't show the bottom prominence yet, due to the path of the moon from lower right to upper left... But the prominences at the 2 o'clock and 3 o'clock are there in the same positions, but the 6 o'clock one hasn't shown up yet.
All photos taken with camera in landscape orientation, and no photos were rotated. They're all exactly how I saw them with my eyes!
The "diamond Ring" photo doesn't show the bottom prominence yet, due to the path of the moon from lower right to upper left... But the prominences at the 2 o'clock and 3 o'clock are there in the same positions, but the 6 o'clock one hasn't shown up yet.
All photos taken with camera in landscape orientation, and no photos were rotated. They're all exactly how I saw them with my eyes!
Apr 13, 2024 18:53:36 #
24Megapixseal wrote:
Profbowman, all of the photos are of the same orientation, no varying rotation.....
The "diamond Ring" photo doesn't show the bottom prominence yet, due to the path of the moon from lower right to upper left... But the prominences at the 2 o'clock and 3 o'clock are there in the same positions, but the 6 o'clock one hasn't shown up yet.
All photos taken with camera in landscape orientation, and no photos were rotated. They're all exactly how I saw them with my eyes!
The "diamond Ring" photo doesn't show the bottom prominence yet, due to the path of the moon from lower right to upper left... But the prominences at the 2 o'clock and 3 o'clock are there in the same positions, but the 6 o'clock one hasn't shown up yet.
All photos taken with camera in landscape orientation, and no photos were rotated. They're all exactly how I saw them with my eyes!
I was mainly looking at the diamond ring effect blob of light and ENE and then in the next photos, the blobs of light are directly E. So, are these l ater ones just overexposed? --Richard
Apr 13, 2024 23:39:44 #
Apr 14, 2024 00:08:48 #
24Megapixseal
Loc: Kansas
The "Diamond Ring" and "Bailey's Beads" occur just SECONDS apart as the moon starts to fully cover the sun...this time the moon passed the sun from the 4 o'clock position, exited at the 10 o'clock position (approx)...thus the "Ring" photo appeared at 1 o'clock going into C2....
The multiple bright spots of (what I consider) the "Bailey's Beads" photo was taken during C3, just as the totality was ending... Thus showing up at the 3 o'clock position...
My photos were NOT placed in chronological order.... My bad... But I really wasn't trying to mislead anyone, but that's just how I downloaded the photos...
All C2, Totality, and C3 photos were taken handheld... And randomly, as I was also trying to enjoy the eclipse... But during our 1 min 57 sec totality, I fired of over 150 photos, in short continuous bursts... Adjusting exposures haphazardly.... Hell, I'm just thrilled I got what I got during totality...
I was real confident about the pre-totality photos because I had been practicing for weeks on the sun.... But totality was a total crapshoot!
The multiple bright spots of (what I consider) the "Bailey's Beads" photo was taken during C3, just as the totality was ending... Thus showing up at the 3 o'clock position...
My photos were NOT placed in chronological order.... My bad... But I really wasn't trying to mislead anyone, but that's just how I downloaded the photos...
All C2, Totality, and C3 photos were taken handheld... And randomly, as I was also trying to enjoy the eclipse... But during our 1 min 57 sec totality, I fired of over 150 photos, in short continuous bursts... Adjusting exposures haphazardly.... Hell, I'm just thrilled I got what I got during totality...
I was real confident about the pre-totality photos because I had been practicing for weeks on the sun.... But totality was a total crapshoot!
Apr 14, 2024 00:22:52 #
24Megapixseal
Loc: Kansas
Looking at the metadata of the photo 5 (Diamond Ring), the time was 1:41pm... My metadata does NOT show the seconds on the time....
The metadata on photo 6 (Bailey's Beads), the time was 1:43 pm...again, data does not show the seconds
So photo 5 was pre-totality, photo 6 (7 & 8) was post-totality
And to be clear, photos 7 and 8 are simply tighter crops of photo 6....
Hopefully that clarifies everything.
The metadata on photo 6 (Bailey's Beads), the time was 1:43 pm...again, data does not show the seconds
So photo 5 was pre-totality, photo 6 (7 & 8) was post-totality
And to be clear, photos 7 and 8 are simply tighter crops of photo 6....
Hopefully that clarifies everything.
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