July 17, 2017

I was practicing taking pictures of the sun yesterday in anticipation of the Total Eclipse on August 21.  There is much involved in this and there are a wide range of suggestions on the Internet, for the hobbyist to the "Eclipse Chasers."  One has to consider the tracking of the sun, equipment, camera settings, and so forth.

These pictures are a progression of my practice yesterday and I will do a second posting about the mechanics that I employed a little later today.  BEST TO CLICK ON A PICTURE TO ENLARGE THEM.

The first picture is of the sun behind the clouds as I set up.  The next four are of different camera setting, as I tried to get what I think is the best setting from which to begin shooting the eclipse.

The last picture is a cropped photo of the previous photo, with which I was satisfied.  The problem is in knowing how much to change the camera settings as the eclipse progresses.