Another Eclipse Photo
I swore to myself that I was NOT going to take eclipse pictures and instead leave it up to the professionals. I'd briefly considered buying a long-lens and a solar filter, but successfully resisted those purchases. At the last minute, however, I found the temptation to photograph it myself irresistible. I cobbled together several ND filters I had lying around, including one my son found at the bottom of a lake a couple of years ago. Thus, I ended up with hundreds of pictures of the sun and relatively few of my family (sigh!).
On my return home, my twitchy shutter-happy finger opened up photoshop for the first time and after watching a tutorial on how to compile multiple images, I ended up with this.
I was very happy with my experience overall. We got up early in the morning, drove with some light traffic to a spot south of Challis, ID and set up down a dirt road at the base of a mountain range on BLM land about a mile from the nearest observers. We had a great time as a family watching, playing games, and I snuck over to the camera to snap a shot now and again. Being in the shadow was, of course, the surreal experience everyone talks about, and my children howled with the excitement and delight I was hoping to provide for them.
Another Eclipse Photo
I swore to myself that I was NOT going to take eclipse pictures and instead leave it up to the professionals. I'd briefly considered buying a long-lens and a solar filter, but successfully resisted those purchases. At the last minute, however, I found the temptation to photograph it myself irresistible. I cobbled together several ND filters I had lying around, including one my son found at the bottom of a lake a couple of years ago. Thus, I ended up with hundreds of pictures of the sun and relatively few of my family (sigh!).
On my return home, my twitchy shutter-happy finger opened up photoshop for the first time and after watching a tutorial on how to compile multiple images, I ended up with this.
I was very happy with my experience overall. We got up early in the morning, drove with some light traffic to a spot south of Challis, ID and set up down a dirt road at the base of a mountain range on BLM land about a mile from the nearest observers. We had a great time as a family watching, playing games, and I snuck over to the camera to snap a shot now and again. Being in the shadow was, of course, the surreal experience everyone talks about, and my children howled with the excitement and delight I was hoping to provide for them.