The fact that I could catch a friggin' solar eruption with this... I'm just... Damn.
250mm focal length with my canon dSLR, unworked and unrefined picture.
I mean, that was an unedited, no-post pic, yeah.
The pic with post-prod work is a bit better. But I do like the sheer simplicity and oomph this photo has, as to me, it was less about the corona and more about the plumes of plasma when I saw them. <3
Nope, no filter or anything.
Some research said that you could take pics when you're at the totality without worrying about your sensor/eyes. So I did.
Just a tripod, 2 second timer and a whole lot of pressing the shutter button after the focus was made. :)
It's always fun to see the stories tomorrow of people who thought they could stop down and adjust the ISO to shoot the partial eclipse phase. Those iris fins melt like butter.
I was using an old 20+ years old cheap-ish tripod I bought for my cinema class way back when, and manually moved the camera between shots, using a 2 seconds delay for minimizing vibrations (damn wind, tho). X3
I didn't have any fancy shmancy equipment! X3
The fancy equipment didn't help as much as I wanted lol. I think the ball mount wasn't handling the excess weight, kept slipping out of scene despite the star tracker working just fine.
Thanks, indeed they did. I'm happy with them. And I think we got almost identical cameras and lenses so it's also cool to see a comparison at different settings, since I didn't want to bother changing them while watching the eclipse.
Yeah, our stuff looks similar! :D
I calculated my timings, since I wanted to watch the eclipse as well. I only had about 15 seconds for settings at the start. I somehow managed to work really fast, which is rare for me. :X
So in-between shutters, I was just looking at the thing, and it was magical
Canon Rebel T5i
Canon 55-250mm w/IS
Canon UV filter (for protection more than anything)
Some cheap-ish tripod
f/5.6
ISO 100
1/800
-5 exposure
Aperture priority mode
I hope this answers your question. <3
