dan swiger
Well-Known Member
I've held off posting mine as it probably looks like so many others.
Taken at Culver OR, about 12 mi south of Madras
This being my 1st full eclipse, I read all about what shots to take, beads, ring & corona..
So with the camera tethered, I was ready to go.
I should mention that my tracking was completely manual.
Just a hole in the filter flange & a piece of paper on the camera. That plus what the monitor showed.
This meant I had to tweak the position about once a minute.
Where I ran into trouble was switching the setup.
So at just before Full eclipse, I switched to the 2nd contact set.
Then I had to switch it back for wide-bracketing at full.
AND I missed a tracking adjust.
The trouble is 1m 48s goes by really quick.
I just fired off a sequence when I heard all the cheering. The full eclipse was OVER.
I started to panic, thinking I didn't get anything.
I quickly checked the images. I had just ONE.
My only hope was that I had enough DR to multi-process one image.
So what you are seeing is one image, over/under/nominal, blended back with a suggested method for solar. Probably a bit of posterization
Rather than crop this for framing, I left it "leaving the frame", because I wanted to be reminded that I almost didn't get it.
The lesson for me is to not get caught up in the details, but consider the "big picture".
Taken at Culver OR, about 12 mi south of Madras
This being my 1st full eclipse, I read all about what shots to take, beads, ring & corona..
So with the camera tethered, I was ready to go.
I should mention that my tracking was completely manual.
Just a hole in the filter flange & a piece of paper on the camera. That plus what the monitor showed.
This meant I had to tweak the position about once a minute.
Where I ran into trouble was switching the setup.
So at just before Full eclipse, I switched to the 2nd contact set.
Then I had to switch it back for wide-bracketing at full.
AND I missed a tracking adjust.
The trouble is 1m 48s goes by really quick.
I just fired off a sequence when I heard all the cheering. The full eclipse was OVER.
I started to panic, thinking I didn't get anything.
I quickly checked the images. I had just ONE.
My only hope was that I had enough DR to multi-process one image.
So what you are seeing is one image, over/under/nominal, blended back with a suggested method for solar. Probably a bit of posterization
Rather than crop this for framing, I left it "leaving the frame", because I wanted to be reminded that I almost didn't get it.
The lesson for me is to not get caught up in the details, but consider the "big picture".
