Solar Eclipse, 2012

[ravnostic]

I hope this will become a gallery of *everybody’s* shots of the eclipse, where ever they may be taken.

Here’s two pre-shots, which I took tonight from the location I’ll be shooting from. I didn’t bother with deleting the dust (f/45; everything shows)

Foreground is foregone. It’s silhouette, or nothing. No HDR will fix this (not realistically, at least). These are hand-held shots; I expect better from the tripod (and from the telescope, of course).

The sun will be about 1/2 it’s diameter to the right, so if the horizon is cloud-free, I’ll have some visual interest (I think). By then, though, The moon will have just a small bite out of it, upper right (about 1/2 a sun radius into it’s disc.)

I hope it will be a nice shot.

Honestly, I’m pinning my hopes on the telescopic view.

anyone else care to share their plans?

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/19/pagepre07lg.jpg

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/19/pagepre08.jpg

[orionid]

I’m, cheating.

Oblique by Orionid, on Flickr

This actually has me pretty exited about other aspects, too. Like this wide-field test at 85mm f/2 in the general direction of the Sombrero Galaxy (with almost no post other than WB).

Wide field test by Orionid, on Flickr

[fluffybunny]

anyone else care to share their plans?

I’m planning on going to my local favorite sunset spot just down the street (I used it for desolation), I bought a range of shaded welding glass (4″x5″), and taking every piece of glass I’ve got. Don’t have a solar filter for my C8 or I’d take it too. I’ll probably start with the 150-500/5.6 Tokina, maybe the 100-300/4 Sigma, maybe a 1.4x in there somewhere and beyond that I’ll see what happens, not taking it too seriously.

[chupathingie]

If the clouds clear out, I’ll be heading a mile or two away to the edge of the world…er…edge of town to get a flat horizon at sunset.

[caradoc]

The longest lens I’ve got to work with is 300mm, and stops down to f45 – but I also have a linear polarizer to stack on the front of my circular polarizer, giving me a LOT more stopping-down capability. We’ll see what happens. The best location I’ll be able to get to will be Papago Park, though. So, maybe 84% of totality, I think.

[caradoc]

Not much here. Didn’t have a whole lot of time – had to change a poopy baby mid-eclipse, so was shooting from the back yard.

[ravnostic]

I got some stunning shots, and one epic fail. Details after I eat–it’s been 13 hours since I had a decent meal!

It’s not bad, caradoc; just a little overblown. Were you on 100 ISO?

can’t wait to see everyone’s pics who took them.

[chupathingie]

here’s one of mine… ADS shot, just reduced. (ADS=Ain’t Done Shit)

[caradoc]

It’s not bad, caradoc; just a little overblown. Were you on 100 ISO?

Camera Nikon D7000
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture f/45.0
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV

[fluffybunny]

How I thought the eclipse was going to work out, lots of inconvenient clouds:

How it really worked out (got lucky, mostly due to Mrs. FluffyBunny):

Mostly SOOC, some non-farktography safe edits (removed a telephone pole). Colors, exposure most everything else as found.

[chupathingie]

Still going thru my shots… Nice shots, Fluffy! I’m torn between your first and third shots (of the actual eclipse, the first one you posted doesn’t count!)… I love the foreground. 🙂

[Barracuda]

Great shots everyone so far, fluffybunny, for a ‘damened clouds’ shot, the wide landscape of the first shot appeals to me. We had those same clouds, and they didn’t move an inch right through sunset so I didn’t even bother getting the camera out at all.

[fluffybunny]

Thanks chupa and cuda. I’ve done a couple landscapes like that wide shot, expose for the sky. The foreground is heavily underexposed and then dodged in post.
I’ve never used one for farktography as they seem a little to over processed for that, but yes it is a cool effect. That was from my 10-20mm f4/5.6,
one of my favorite lenses.

[ravnostic]

Lots of blown-awayedness folks! chupa I think clouds really help define a unique eclipse photo; nicely done!

And Fluffy; I love love love the horizonal distortion! Actually, it’s a really good example of why we see the sun rise or set a minute or two before/after (repectively) it actally does. great colors, too!

Caradoc; I looked at the flicker version, and you got a sunspot indeed–it’s very nice; doesn’t come across as well at 640w (or so).

So here’s a sampling of mine, thus far; I’ve far from finished processing yet. However, you can better believe I’ll work every damned one of these into any farktography contest I can muster…

This is my favorite, thus far. Used the xTi body with the Tamron 70-300, set at 300 (480 equiv). F/45, it brought out the diffraction spikes–but what a bright crescent does to diffraction spikes!!:

The next three, contact point two (full annularity, just about), centered (as close as my location permitted) and contact point three, respectively. I’m a little disappointed that no sunspots were anywhere near the edge (well, there is one small one, 4-5 oclock) to give drama to the image.

//but I can’t complain.

I’ve more to go through; between the two camera bodies I took some 600 or so images.

I’m sad to say I did not get the image I really wanted, due to my own stupidity and lack of coordination.

I did, however, get my tracking down (until then) to less than 3 seconds of arc over 4+ minutes of time. Chupa will likely appreciate that, especially as I did so using only the sun, with a rough initial polar alignment, over the course of the day.

[nobigdeal]

Whoa!

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