Eclipse from Mt. Dissapointment

JCJC Registered Users Posts: 768 Major grins
edited May 25, 2012 in Landscapes
Hope you aren't saturated with eclipse photos yet, I haven't had much time to process these ,and I wanted to do more, but it won't happen till next week.

1) One shot every 20 minutes.
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2) First bite
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3) Maximum eclipse
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400mm, f22 1/3200, 1000x and 4x ND filters stacked. For the end of the eclipse in the haze I had to remove the 4x, and the exposure time and aperture varies. To be fair to the city, I'm looking west across the range front towards the ocean, and only a fraction of the haze is photochemical smog, a great deal of it is the marine layer that started coming in about 1 or 2 pm. But it was smoggy.

I don't know how I'm supposed to get better at this, when there's only one chance every decade or so where I am...
I could have exposed these more, but this seemed like the best exposure to get the sun spots.
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Comments

  • WayupthereWayupthere Registered Users Posts: 179 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2012
    Nicely done Kolibri! Sometimes I really miss the photochemical smog mwink.gif
    Mine are boring and too blown out. I have stretched out the MC card for some additional gear this week in anticipation of the Venus alignment deal coming up in June.
    Gary
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited May 25, 2012
    Excellent! thumb.gif
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