Solar Eclipse
From today's sky festivities as our moon drifted between Earth and the Sun. This is the 75% solar eclipse, as seen from Brentwood, CA. As I was studying the full rez image, I notice the right side (outer edge) of the crescent is not as sharp as the left edge. Which figures since that side is some 92.5 million miles further than the left edge. Think about it. Talk about depth of field!
I used the DFA 150-450/4.5 lens at 450mm plus a 1.4x teleconvertor, on the K3II crop sensor camera. For filtering, I combined a Hoya 9-stop ND with a Marumi circular polarizer which got me to a 1/8000th shutter speed at ISO 100.
No DSLR sensors nor retinae were damaged in the making...at least I hope.
Thanks for looking!
Solar Eclipse
From today's sky festivities as our moon drifted between Earth and the Sun. This is the 75% solar eclipse, as seen from Brentwood, CA. As I was studying the full rez image, I notice the right side (outer edge) of the crescent is not as sharp as the left edge. Which figures since that side is some 92.5 million miles further than the left edge. Think about it. Talk about depth of field!
I used the DFA 150-450/4.5 lens at 450mm plus a 1.4x teleconvertor, on the K3II crop sensor camera. For filtering, I combined a Hoya 9-stop ND with a Marumi circular polarizer which got me to a 1/8000th shutter speed at ISO 100.
No DSLR sensors nor retinae were damaged in the making...at least I hope.
Thanks for looking!