Go Play Outside! 😎
See It: Did you see the total solar eclipse this past Monday, August 21, 2017? I drove 10 hours from my Northern California home base to Central Oregon to access the path of ‘totality’; the path on the earth’s surface where the entire sun disk is momentarily obscured from view by the moon passing between sun and earth. The path of totality was a 70 mile wide band that stretched across the entire continental United States from Oregon to South Carolina. The next total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be visible on April 8, 2024 with a totality path from Texas to Maine. [Caution: You must view the sun only through safety glasses or protective filter compliant with the ISO 12312-2 standard to prevent damage to your eyes or camera. Only when the sun is completely obscured by the moon (totality), you may view without safety glasses.] More about solar eclipses, solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, solar safety glasses.
Shoot It: This image was shot immediately after achieving totality and removing an ISO 12312.2 compliant solar safety filter mounted in front of the camera lens (mount the safety filter BEFORE pointing your camera at the sun to prevent eye and camera damage! Be sure to return the filter in front of the lens before totality completes to protect your camera and eyes! It is only safe to look directly at the sun through solar safety glasses or during totality.) Camera was a Canon 7D DSLR (crop factor 1.6), Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8 lens + 2x teleconverter at 400mm and f/8, 1/100 sec, and ISO400, with mirror-lockup enabled and 2 second shutter delay, on a tripod, on August 21, 2017 at 10:19 AM. Location:(goo.gl/maps/BbuSrx4kSiz). Basic adjustments in Photoshop Lightroom.
Improve It: Why do you think I used mirror lockup and 2 second shutter delay for this image? What problems are you having with your photographs? Let me know at Inquiries@GibsonOutdoorPhoto.com and I will share some tips to overcome these issues in a future blog post.
Go Play Outside! 😎
-Scott