Solar Eclipse - April 2024 - Summerside
This is a series of photos that I have assembled into a single image from the solar eclipse that occurred yesterday (April 8, 2024) over North America. I took over fifty photos (one every five minutes using a solar filter over my lens, plus a large number without a solar filter when the sun was completely hidden by the moon).
For this image, I selected only a few exposures from the full series in order to keep the file size manageable while also providing a sense of the eclipse from beginning to end. The total time involved in the observation and photography was a little over two hours.
The original photos were taken in Summerside on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. We were very fortunate to have had clear skies throughout. I used an aging (11 year old) Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk I camera with the M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 zoom set to 400mm. I also used a simple ISO rated solar filter over the lens. For most of the images, the camera was set to ISO 200 and 1/15th of a second. I locked the aperture at f/7.1. All exposures were made in Manual Mode. The final image was composited in Photoshop.
Solar Eclipse - April 2024 - Summerside
This is a series of photos that I have assembled into a single image from the solar eclipse that occurred yesterday (April 8, 2024) over North America. I took over fifty photos (one every five minutes using a solar filter over my lens, plus a large number without a solar filter when the sun was completely hidden by the moon).
For this image, I selected only a few exposures from the full series in order to keep the file size manageable while also providing a sense of the eclipse from beginning to end. The total time involved in the observation and photography was a little over two hours.
The original photos were taken in Summerside on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. We were very fortunate to have had clear skies throughout. I used an aging (11 year old) Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk I camera with the M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 zoom set to 400mm. I also used a simple ISO rated solar filter over the lens. For most of the images, the camera was set to ISO 200 and 1/15th of a second. I locked the aperture at f/7.1. All exposures were made in Manual Mode. The final image was composited in Photoshop.