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BillTre
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Today I realized that the moon has variable sunblock capabilities.
Argh! I was going to get a shot like that, too, but forgot about it in the excitement. Also I stayed indoors for a significant part of the time because it was so beastly hot and humid outside.Mech_Engineer said:made some nice designs in the shadows of the trees!
jtbell said:I decided not to fiddle with my tripod because of the high elevation of the sun which would have made it difficult to use my DSLR's viewfinder. Instead I tried a few hand-held shots which fortunately turned out OK with some help from Photoshop's curves tool. Note Venus (?) in the first picture!
Awesome! Mind if I share these outside PF?jtbell said:As Russ mentioned, he came up from Charleston to escape the clouds there, and fortunately didn't get clouded out here! Here he is setting up in the morning:
It's called the "Diamond Ring" ... for obvious reasons. Then the Corona follows. It's all very amazing and magical, I agree!Helios said:At the very first moments I could see a fire storm on the left upper part of periphery.
Sure, go ahead!russ_watters said:Awesome! Mind if I share these outside PF?
My own pictures were taken with a point-and-shoot digital camera, and the Sun's corona got overexposed. It also made the twilight somewhat brighter. I was annoyed that the Sun didn't come out too well, but I decided to enjoy totality rather than experiment with the camera's settings.jtbell said:I had second thoughts about the shot of the eclipse and the building, so I re-processed it to make it darker. Now it looks a bit darker than does in Photoshop, but that may simply be because of the differing contrast with the light background here and the black background in PS.
Much the same thing happened with my camera, as I took pictures of my house's walls, to capture the tree-left pinhole-camera effect.Last night I watched the live TV coverage of the eclipse on our CBS and NBC stations, which I had set my DVR to record. As the light dwindled towards totality, what they recorded of the surroundings (not the sun itself) doesn't really resemble reality. It's probably because of the automatic exposure control on their cameras which boosted the brightness to compensate for the increasing darkness. Of course, our eyes were doing something similar, but the perceived results were different. My crowd shot a few minutes before totality doesn't do the scene justice, either.
OmCheeto said:View attachment 209471
Zero luck on the "shadow bands". But I do have a 5 minute long video of a white sheet getting dark, and then light again, if anyone is interested. (I had a spare old camera)
Helios said:At the very first moments I could see a fire storm on the left upper part of periphery. There were bright orange dots surrounded by a beautiful magenta color.
Stavros Kiri said:It's called the "Diamond Ring" ... for obvious reasons.
anorlunda said:...I forgot all that and looked up...
In my research, I found a wonderful program called Eclipse Orchestrator, which automated the imaging completely. I only had to touch the camera for a mid eclipse focus check and occasional recentering of the telescope (And yank off the filters when prompted).OmCheeto said:This was kind of my "take away" from the last two years of listening to veterans of eclipses; "When in doubt, just stare at it. Do NOT mess with your camera."
I can only describe the second of the "two trips" as "serendipitous".anorlunda said:@OmCheeto , how did the travels to/from the event, and the crowding in Oregon turn out?
I am willing to pay $50 for a full sized (8½ x 11 glossy) print of that image.Janus said:Forgot to add this one my wife took of me trying to line up the camera to take the total eclipse photo.View attachment 209521
In the upper left corner, you can see some of the fog that was to the West of us. It threatened to blow in a couple of times but held off.
Essentially what I did. I was a bit annoyed that the Sun's corona looked too thick. But then again, I used a mass-market point-and-shoot digital camera. I would have to have experimented with its settings to try to get a better shot, but I didn't bother.OmCheeto said:This was kind of my "take away" from the last two years of listening to veterans of eclipses; "When in doubt, just stare at it. Do NOT mess with your camera."
OMG I would have been tearing my hair out at that point. I actually had a dream the night before that a little black cloud would come along at just the wrong time to spoil my view.Borg said:Here is the beast that almost ruined my viewing ten minutes before totality. Hard to believe that it completely evaporated in 10 minutes.
russ_watters said:With Earth'shine
UsableThought said:Nice. Is the blueish coloration an artifact of processing, or in some sense real?
Yes, I was definitely tearing out my hair and thinking whether I could throw my equipment into the back of a truck and race after a clear spot in two minutes. Fortunately, patience and a little luck won out.anorlunda said:OMG I would have been tearing my hair out at that point.