Well, this is all I was able to get. The skies started clearing up and I took numerous shots going up to totality and the clouds moved back in until well past totality. The frustrating thing is that later in the day, our daughter sent a text of a picture she took with her phone of the eclipse from work. She lives only 20 miles north of us. Had I known we could have had the chance of a lifetime to see a total eclipse. I went out the day before and practiced and I noticed the dark spot on the sun. I first thought that it was some dust on the lens. filter or sensor. I blew everything off with air and as you can see it is still there. It must be some type of sunspot as it is in all the photos no matter where the sun was in each photo.
Such is life. Almost but not quite.
I just noticed that the exif says that the focal length is 1200mm. Since this is a composite it took the information from the photo on the right which was one of the last that I took and I used my 2x extender. It almost filled the screen so I had to shrink it to the same size as the other two which were shot at 600mm. But then since I have a crop sensor that comes out to 960mm and 1920mm.
@rontu - Thank you so much Linda. Oh I am happy with what I got and pleased that the filter worked and I didn't blind myself or ruin the camera. I just feel like the football player who was wide open in the end zone and the ball went through my hands. Or the goalie who was all stretched out to block the shot and the ball went off my fingertips for the winning goal.
How wonderful to see the photographs of those lucky folks who had such an opportunity! Sorry it wasn't all you'd hoped for...but it was more than I got!
April 15th, 2024
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