Posts for: 24Megapixseal
Apr 19, 2024 18:51:44 #
Great capture bwana!!..those spots are way bigger than yesterday's!
I went out yesterday and took a picture, after looking at the SOHO website... Yeah, now's a good time to live up north... I'd love to go there and see the Aurora Borealis with my own eyes and try capturing some pics
This photo taken with a Nikon D3500, F/11 300.0mm 1/800s ISO-100...K&F Concepts ND100000 filter...
Color added in LR...(I just like yellow suns...🌞)... Original was quite white!
I went out yesterday and took a picture, after looking at the SOHO website... Yeah, now's a good time to live up north... I'd love to go there and see the Aurora Borealis with my own eyes and try capturing some pics
This photo taken with a Nikon D3500, F/11 300.0mm 1/800s ISO-100...K&F Concepts ND100000 filter...
Color added in LR...(I just like yellow suns...🌞)... Original was quite white!
Apr 19, 2024 18:31:00 #
Thanks again everyone... I'm really enjoying tracking the growth of these 3 eaglets... And just hoping that all 3 make it to flying and leaving the nest.
I'm kinda picking and choosing the days I go, always in the morning so the light is perfect, considering wind so they approach the nest in a direction that I can get good flight angles... There's been some crazy windy days here in SE Kansas... 30-40 mph sustained with gusts over 60 mph... It's really testing their nest construction abilities, that's for sure...this photos shows my usual spot I take photos from, from 7 days ago, but this threads photos were taken a couple days ago and the leaves are really busting out, limiting the different angles I can shoot from....by mid-May those leaves are going be a PITA! LOL
I'm kinda picking and choosing the days I go, always in the morning so the light is perfect, considering wind so they approach the nest in a direction that I can get good flight angles... There's been some crazy windy days here in SE Kansas... 30-40 mph sustained with gusts over 60 mph... It's really testing their nest construction abilities, that's for sure...this photos shows my usual spot I take photos from, from 7 days ago, but this threads photos were taken a couple days ago and the leaves are really busting out, limiting the different angles I can shoot from....by mid-May those leaves are going be a PITA! LOL
Apr 18, 2024 12:26:29 #
btbg wrote:
Depends on the rodeo, but in a lot of cases they allow the official photographer to put a series of large flash units on the rook or in some other location that they flash remotely when they shoot.
It looks to me like the second photo looks the way it did because that series of flash popped off.
It looks to me like the second photo looks the way it did because that series of flash popped off.
This! ☝️☝️☝️
Apr 18, 2024 11:55:35 #
Agreed, zero concern using my only cameras....once a legit solar filter of 16.5 stop or more is installed, it's perfectly fine to point a multi-thousand dollar camera at the sun all day long....and I even survived with my eyesight after using the viewfinder to look thru and focus the camera....(This is my 5th end of the world that I've survived!...lol)...if it's safe enough for my sensor, it's safe enough for my eyes
I used a K&F ND100000, worked perfectly as advertised!
The settings the OP used were way overexposing, in my experienced opinion.... And no need to wait until an eclipse to practice... I got my filter a month before the eclipse and simply used it on the first sunny day, at 1:40 pm, to duplicate the sun's altitude, to practice...
I used 1/800th, f11, ISO 100 as a starting point, and used my single point auto focus on the edge of the sun, looking thru the viewfinder, once the camera locked focus, I simply turned the auto focus off (switched to MF)... And snapped several photos and second or two apart.... removed camera from tripod, went inside, looked at the photos on the back of the camera, and was surprised to see everything I expected to see: sharp edges on the disk, sunspots in great detail (for a 300mm lens on a cropped sensor), and even the texture of the suns surface... Replaced the camera on the tripod, changed the shutter speed up and down from 1/800th, went back inside, slower ss overexposed, faster ss the disc looked too dark....so I was lucky with my initial guess
Preceding the eclipse day, I took photos on any day that the SOHO website showed a decent amount of sunspots... There was zero doubt in my mind that I could capture all photos of the eclipse pre and post totality... And I did, every one in perfect focus, with the couple of sunspots that were there the day of the eclipse, with a D3500 and a non-VR 70-300mm kit lens on a tripod
After reading much about the totally different exposure setting for the totality, I simply guessed and had to make small adjustments, settling on F/6.3 300.0mm 1/80s ISO-100 for totality.... And F/6.3 300mm 1/1600s ISO -100 for Diamond Ring and Bailey's Beads.... All of totality was handheld using a 70-300 VR lens on a D5600, using single point auto focus, focusing on the outer ring... Camera grabbed auto focus every time.
Another note I would suggest, I to NEVER, EVER simply rotate the lens to "infinity" and expect it to be in focus.... Some lens are, many are not... Use your autofocus, pre focus, then switch lens or camera to Manual Focus and don't touch the focus ring
I used a K&F ND100000, worked perfectly as advertised!
The settings the OP used were way overexposing, in my experienced opinion.... And no need to wait until an eclipse to practice... I got my filter a month before the eclipse and simply used it on the first sunny day, at 1:40 pm, to duplicate the sun's altitude, to practice...
I used 1/800th, f11, ISO 100 as a starting point, and used my single point auto focus on the edge of the sun, looking thru the viewfinder, once the camera locked focus, I simply turned the auto focus off (switched to MF)... And snapped several photos and second or two apart.... removed camera from tripod, went inside, looked at the photos on the back of the camera, and was surprised to see everything I expected to see: sharp edges on the disk, sunspots in great detail (for a 300mm lens on a cropped sensor), and even the texture of the suns surface... Replaced the camera on the tripod, changed the shutter speed up and down from 1/800th, went back inside, slower ss overexposed, faster ss the disc looked too dark....so I was lucky with my initial guess
Preceding the eclipse day, I took photos on any day that the SOHO website showed a decent amount of sunspots... There was zero doubt in my mind that I could capture all photos of the eclipse pre and post totality... And I did, every one in perfect focus, with the couple of sunspots that were there the day of the eclipse, with a D3500 and a non-VR 70-300mm kit lens on a tripod
After reading much about the totally different exposure setting for the totality, I simply guessed and had to make small adjustments, settling on F/6.3 300.0mm 1/80s ISO-100 for totality.... And F/6.3 300mm 1/1600s ISO -100 for Diamond Ring and Bailey's Beads.... All of totality was handheld using a 70-300 VR lens on a D5600, using single point auto focus, focusing on the outer ring... Camera grabbed auto focus every time.
Another note I would suggest, I to NEVER, EVER simply rotate the lens to "infinity" and expect it to be in focus.... Some lens are, many are not... Use your autofocus, pre focus, then switch lens or camera to Manual Focus and don't touch the focus ring
Apr 17, 2024 13:01:01 #
🤯🤯😍💪😎👍
LOVE LOVE LOVE the feather detail..
Nice perspective too...
LOVE LOVE LOVE the feather detail..
Nice perspective too...
Apr 17, 2024 12:59:28 #
Apr 17, 2024 12:58:24 #
We could only see two eaglets for the longest time, then Dad brings in a Grackle Snack, and the whole nest perks up and we see THREE little eaglet beaks..
You'd think as big as they're getting, you'd see em, but the bole must be deep and wide.
Seen a beaver swimming on our way to the nest, along with lots of carp, and a very distant GBH!
Great mornings by outting!
You'd think as big as they're getting, you'd see em, but the bole must be deep and wide.
Seen a beaver swimming on our way to the nest, along with lots of carp, and a very distant GBH!
Great mornings by outting!
Apr 17, 2024 12:46:26 #
Awesome photos... 🦅💪😎👍
I agree, eagles are the most awesome! Oh, if we only had a large population around here, I'd be there a LOT...
I watching a nest with 3 eaglets, and it a highlight to go hike to see them..
Keep em coming!
I agree, eagles are the most awesome! Oh, if we only had a large population around here, I'd be there a LOT...
I watching a nest with 3 eaglets, and it a highlight to go hike to see them..
Keep em coming!
Apr 16, 2024 09:42:32 #
Apr 14, 2024 00:22:52 #
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.
Apr 14, 2024 00:08:48 #
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 13, 2024 23:39:44 #
I'm thinking they are probably over exposed or mis-timed Bailey Beads...
Apr 13, 2024 12:32:24 #
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Apr 13, 2024 10:46:20 #