Huntington Oregon, 8/21/2017
Sigma 150-600 mm Contemporary (@ 600 mm), Canon 5D MkIII
"Diamond Ring" effect, seconds before full totality.
Huntington Oregon, 8/21/2017
Sigma 150-600 mm Contemporary (@ 600 mm), Canon 5D MkIII
"Diamond Ring" effect, seconds before full totality.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Nice! Better than mine. I was a fraction of a second too late to get the nice ring effect. This is also a screen shot ant not the actual pic.
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Excellent Steve! I didn't get my exposures quite right and ended up mostly under exposed on my shots. Then I bumped the focus ring, and obliterated about 2/3rds of my shots during totality. But a few of them came through OK. They are insanely difficult to post process well I'm finding. MUCH harder than Milky Way images! The dynamic range of the corona is just nuts! I couldn't believe how BIG it was to the naked eye!
Nicely done, gentlemen!
Thanks. I kept adjusting the shutter speed during totality as a way of bracketing the exposure to get the full corona. When I get home I'll to stack the pictures and hopefully be able to create something showing the full tonal range.
The problem with this this and the fact that my wife had a problem with her camera that I had to fix is that I did no take the time to fully appreciate the experience. But I did look a the sun during totality and it was like something out of a sci-fi movie. I half expected to see alien spaceships pouring out of the blackness.
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Awesome photos guys!!!!
Lost and confused in an optical wonderland!
It was so fast, that I didn't have time to check, (or fix) my own focus problems. I assumed that I would run into problems of some form, as this was my first totality adventure. And my equipment wasn't the greatest all in all. Next time, I think a solid tracking mount is really called for, and more practice with the telephoto. And for heck's sake TAPE DOWN the darn focus ring! :)
I'm finding the most difficult aspect of these shots is the post processing and editing. With the extreme difference in contrast and brightness, getting all the detail and extent of the corona to look right in an image compared to what the eye actually sees is almost impossible. Still, it was both amazing to see, and fun to try and photograph.
Well we all appreciate getting to be a part of what you guys can accomplish! I look forward comparing this with what you capture in 2024!
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Hehehe - we'll see if travel plans, and weather cooperate for round 2!
Found that one of our fellow enthusiasts took a video of the event (and of all of us) in Oregon. We're the bunch next to the orange tent as he pans around, though a bit small and hard to see perhaps. But it's fun showing the entire totality event from start to finish, and watching how and how quickly the light changed.
Total solar eclipse video, Huntington Oregon
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The better pics I got were with my telescope and solar filter. I even got the "string of pearls," but not in focus well enough.
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Those are great! I was fighting with focus and wind...and generally loosing. But got a few that were something like those. Was wishing I had just a touch more reach than my 600 mm lens could offer for the first hour of the event. But of course once the moon did its full magic, I was struggling to pull back enough to really capture the enormity of the corona. And messing up my focus even further.
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