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My first solar eclipse
Ever since I made one of my occasional visits to NASA's eclipse
site last year, I've been eagerly looking forward to this day. The eclipse was to be only slightly over 90% of total in my area and I knew a photo of it wouldn't be anywhere nearly as spectacular as in the totality zone. But it's the first major solar eclipse I'd have a chance to photograph. Alas, sunrise came and the morning sky was heavily overcast, with thick fog rolling in too. There wasn't even a faintly luminous spot to indicate where the sun was. My friends and I watched TV, the clock and the darkening sky as the moment of maximum eclipse came and went. Some time later, the weather relented a bit and we began to catch glimpses of the receding eclipse. I started shooting and went on to take some 60 shots. The clouds were moving so fast that the brightness level changed literally from second to second. I saw no point in trying to check my exposures in between shots as the next one would need a different level anyway. I went entirely by guesstimate and kept turning the shutter and aperture dials, using exposure values from f/11 at 1/2000 sec with a filter to f/4 at 1/20 sec without a filter. I was pleasantly surprised when I later found that more than half of the shots had acceptable exposure, at least acceptable to me, given the circumstances and my total lack of experience in shooting a solar eclipse. Here's the very first shot, taken about 10 minutes after the moment of maximum eclipse: http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...-22Jul09_1.jpg |
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