ckayakne Loc: Wolfeboro/Portsmouth, NH

I try to stay away from taking photos that everyone else will be doing. I tend to stay with uniqueness of things around me.

Knowa

Yes, I live in Wyoming in the area of totality. Been practicing both solar shots and how to quickly run through the shutter speeds to capture the various levels of the corona. Rooms have long been sold old, but a few camping places might still be available. We have lots of roadside where you can pull off for a couple of hours.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

It's only a four hour drive to Casper, Wyoming, one of the areas that has the least chance of clouds. I've got my equipment lined up. There are no hotels or motels available at this time. If there is, they will not be reasonably priced. So I will be in my car two nights watching the weather and getting ready to move to clear skies if necessary. I would like to end up at Glendo State Park since that would add 4 seconds to the eclipse. But I not sure about the traffic. Even if I get stuck between Casper and Glendo State Park, that whole area is in the shadow.

Knowa

You can probably expect the road pull outs on the freeway to be packed. Check the side roads as well on google maps and I would suggest moving into position as soon as possible. We are going to move into place Friday nite and hangout at our location--hopefully without too much company. Do have extra gas, water, cooler full of ice, and suggest a canopy picnic tent, such as 12 x 12 and stake it down for the wind. Also be alert to snakes. Don 't kill them....just herd them away. have fun!

ewforbess Loc: San Antonio, TX

Driving from San Antonio to suburban Nashville a couple of days prior. We booked a hotel about 60 miles south of the center line. Sensor cleaning done, filter has arrived and everything is slowly coming together. (Wonder what I'll forget?)

Knowa

Doyou have a check list? I can send one I built for the locals. For sharp images you'll need your tripod and an electronic shutter release. One of the most important things I've learned in practice is how to find the sun with the filter in place and not go blind in the process. I built a homemade range-finger with two cardboard tubes and taped onto the lens. The first was larger (from gift rap paper, and the second, smaller and taped onto the larger one...something like a tiny spotting scope, but made of a kazoo party tube. I pointed it more-less in the direction of the sun and using the shadow cast by the tube, aligned it so the tube shadow was as small and sharp as possible--right on the sun. Live view works well too, if you have it and can look at it, but if the screen doesn't pop up, your still potentially stuck with looking into the sun to see the screen.

jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

I am. My brother lives in Georgia so I will visit him and the two of us will give it a try. He has shot other eclipses but I haven't yet.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Using Live View will or will not hurt the camera sensor and/or your eyes?

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

What filter did you put on the camera and what were your shooting parameter to see the sunspots?

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

If the weather turns out to be bad for the Casper / Glendo area, I may choose to go as far as Idaho Falls, Idaho. If I go that far, I will be found at the intersection of I-15 and route 33. Also, the Idaho Falls area has an even better chance of good weather than the Casper / Glendo area. It is the third best spot in the nation weather wise.

MTG44 Loc: Corryton, Tennessee

Naw it gets to dark to shoot. LOL

jcboy3

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.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

It could be cloudy everywhere, but that is not likely. The four best areas weather wise are two places in Oregon, Idaho, and the Casper area of Wyoming. Athough still low, the mountain areas between these areas have slightly higher possibilites of clouds. After it leaves the Wyoming / Nebraska area, the chances of clouds steadily grows as one goes east. East of the Mississippi river area, the chances of clouds levels off somewhat but is pretty much higher than anywhere else in the country. Anyone back east should be prepared to move to an areas of less clouds. But then there is Murphy's Law; it could end up Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming gets a storm while the east has crystal blue skies. Weather is always a crap shoot. That is why one needs to prepare to move and move fast.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

There is Missouri - Where there is a major swath of the total eclipse and complete shadow of the moon blocking the sun from the earth.

Solar Filter for eclipse....

Two words of advice....

"Welder's Glass".

That is Electric Arc Welder's glass filter. (Just tape it to the lens.)

You can buy it at "Home Depot" (5 bucks) - It works - However - the sun will be green. I tried this out a few years ago to photograph sun-spots. No harm to eyes or camera. I tried one of those "solar filters" that cost about 200 bucks - it filtered out the sun-spots all it did was reduce the light but everything was not clear at all, except for the Orb of the sun. ((The filter is a sheet of what looks like material cut from a "Space Blanket".)) I got out the 5 dollar 4 inch welder's glass and I did photograph a few sunspots and the clear crisp orb of the sun.

On photographing the eclipse - I shall make use of this filter and convert to "Shades of Gray" (B&W) - that is Until the eclipse is in totality. Then (and only then) I shall remove the filter as it is safe for eyes and camera to do that. Then back on it goes for the after shots of the moon's movement past the area of totality.

https://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEnews/TSE2017/TSE2017states/TSE2017stateMO.html

Good luck to everyone in doing this event. Be safe - and -

May The Light Be With You.

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btbg

I've been assigned to shoot a large music festival and what the people are doing during the eclipse while getting at least one shot of the eclipse. Then comes the fun part. Totality is at approximately 10:21 a.m. Haven't looked up the exact time for where I will be in Oregon, but that is close enough until I have to doublecheck details next week. Anyway I have from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. to drive 45 miles, process the photos and produce a two page photo spread of the festival and solar eclipse along with a two page sports section.

It is a back country two lane road that they are expecting to be plugged with gawkers and the sheriff's department is so concerned about traffic that they are stationing deputies all over the area about 10 miles apart because they don't think that it will be possible for them to drive to any kind of incidents because of the flood of people on the roads.

The two lanes have no shoulder and if people park on one side it becomes a one lane road. If it is passable it will be the side of the road next to a large mountain drop off. My instructions are if I can't get to the office find a way to get the images emailed even if it means climbing to the top of a mountain where I can get a little bit of cell service and then use my phone as a hot spot.

They are very worried that I won't be able to get back and have delayed publication by eight hours to try to make it possible.

It is going to be one of the most interesting days of my life as a journalist.

For anyone who cares the music festival has pre-sold 35,000 tickets for a one week event. Look up Symbiosis 2017 if you want to see what it is.