November 19, 2021 Eclipse!

I have never tried eclipse shots over time at all before, even after shooting for 15 years now. I DEFINITELY know how to improve these for next time and that this isn’t perfect, but I’m VERY happy with how it turned out for a first attempt!

The first 5 images were taken 20 minutes apart (I thought I had until 1:04am) but the eclipse was progressing REALLY fast, so the last 3 were taken 5 minutes apart. Good thing, too! At 12:50am the fog rolled in and the sky was inaccessible until well after sunrise!

I thought it especially fascinating how I had to adjust my camera settings – I know the moon well enough I don’t have to fiddle around with the settings (ISO 100, f4.0, 1/400) ahead of time, but as the eclipse progressed, I had to keep dropping my shutter speed (down to 1/70) and then for the last three, ALSO boosting my ISO (up to 3200). MUCH learning!


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