I don't have any previous experience photographing a solar ECLIPSE, but I'm about to get into serious planning mode for the upcoming one in August. The center line (maximum time in totality) literally crosses 1 mile north of my workplace. I plan on taking the day off and being somewhere with more interesting terrain, however, even if it means giving up some time in totality.
The reason why I am interested in the terrain is that I am not just interested in photographing the sun itself, but also the moon's shadow as it races over the earth and then envelops my location. If I can pull it off, I'd like to photograph this with several different cameras.I will have my longest focal length on my Vixen Polarie, probably taking time-lapse shots of the sun through a solar filter. I'd suggest making a solar filter and trying to take some solar photos now, prior to the eclipse (there are some good sunspots to try to nail your focus on, right now). Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > > John, > > First of all, thank you for bringing attention to this event. > Even though we will get only a partial one, it is a great experience for the > kids. I just marked the calendar. > > I would assume you want to use a long telephoto lens (for the moon). > > But if you google for e.g. "photographing solar eclipse", you will find > plenty of pages discussing this in great detail. > Nikon-USA did a good job, I think: > http://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/tips-and-techniques/how-to-photograph-a-solar-eclipse.html > including the link to the exposure guide at the end: > http://www.mreclipse.com/SEphoto/image/SE-Exposure1w.GIF > > There are other pages with various degree of hype and large red letters in > your face for emphasis. > > I would point out one very useful resource for figuring out the time of the > different stages of the event: > https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html > If you click on the map and make a marker for where you live, - it will show > you information for the eclipse for your place. Don't get it mixed up: the > time is in UTC, so you'd have to subtract the difference according to your > time zone. > > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > > On Apr 5, 2017, at 11:04 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> The Great Solar Eclipse is coming to the U.S. in August. Does anyone on >> the list have prior experience photographing eclipses? >> >> I'm planning to use my K-1 & K-3, but I'm wondering which lenses would >> be my best choices? >> >> The pool of lenses I can choose from (full frame): >> D FA 15-30 f/2.8 >> Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 >> FA 77 f/1.8 Ltd >> SMCP-A 100 f/2.8 Macro >> Tokina ATX Pro 80-200 f/2.8 >> Sigma 300 f/2.8 >> >> Additionally, I have the SMC Pentax-DA L 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL & >> SMC Pentax-DA L 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR APS-C kit lenses. >> >> I need to figure it out now so I can go ahead and order the appropriate >> solar filters for whatever lenses I'm going to use. >> >> I have a viewing spot south of Great Smokey Mountains National Park >> picked out, but I'll be looking for other options as the date draws >> nearer based on weather forecasts. If anyone knows long term weather >> trends & where I will find the highest probability of clear skies, chime >> in as well. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
