Solar (eclipse) Photography

Did take a few pics. Cloud was handy as I could look at it with my sunglasses on.
1/6400 and f5-6
Took a couple at 420mm but these are kind of boring tbh
Most interesting were at 120-300mm range with a bit of fore ground
I used my tripod so I could change focal plane.

Hopefully won't light room stacking should make a cool pic
Scouted out where I was going before
 
I used squat all filters!

Without clouds would have been impossible

Dunno why I used such a wide aperture. Heat of moment I think
 
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Wasn't going to bother as it was quite cloudy first thing, but it cleared slightly at the right moment:

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Worked a night shift last night, finished at 7am and drove to Llangollen, used TPE a few days ago to work out where I should be to have Castell Dinas Bran in front of the Eclipse :) Working on a few shots atm.

Oddly I've processed one that looks very similar to the ones already posted above - anyway - here's mine entitled "Occultation" - a nice Astronomy term that sums up what happened and just how spooky an Eclipse is :)


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al4x said:
I wasn't feeling the brightest at the time. Think my judgement was clouded. :p


Looking forward to pics too.
Can't wait to get on LR tonight and attack the pics
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Quick snap with phone just as the clouds broke for 30s.

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I managed to grab these shots this morning using,

Canon 650d
500mm Lens
DIY Solar Filter - ( 2 x DVD-r Disks split in half )


I have RAW photos of it which i will be able to edit if i wanted, these are just 3 shots i took, the DIY Solar Filter gave it a purple hue.

did the best i could, i didnt have time to order solar filter online etc.






 
Having known about this for ages I only decided to photograph it when I saw the cloud clearing about 10 minutes beforehand.

Rushed around to find my polariser and ND filter hoping that was good enough to look through without risking permanent eye damage (sod the camera!) I only glanced through the viewfinder and even with my eyes closed it was bright enough to tell when the sun was in shot!

If you see no more posts from me you know not to try this at home kids!! :cool:

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Afer much deliberating and forecast twitching (I've never checked so many forecasts in my life!), I stayed close to home (East Lothian), I had planned a trip up north (higher % cover) but the forecast looked poor (as it did on TV), so I was local and we had a good view;

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NickK - Thanks for the ideas and advice, I ended up buying some Baader film and making a diy filter, I'm happy with the results for a first attempt.
I'm no editor but I do have the RAW images so any editing advice is welcome.
 
I took several myself using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, and some of the photos gave unexpected results. You can see pictured below that the eclipse is like an illusion set apart from the sun. Do you know what caused that? The only camera setting I changed was set metering mode to "spot". This was Stafford btw, so had about 88% eclipse.

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