Oh, bummer! I hope that doesn’t happen to you in April!
I was feeling sorry for myself that I don’t live in the center of the path but at least we got to see it at about 80%.
@f00l@Kyeh I have one like that too through the trees. I figure buy the likely now discounted Lowe’s eclipse glasses now for April and the full eclipse.
@Kyeh I love these crescent shadows so much! I’ve never been able to witness them in person. During the 2017 eclipse in Greenville, SC, it was totally obscured by clouds, and yesterday’s only reached 55 percent occlusion where we live in Orlando.
@f00l@Kyeh@Lynnerizer@PooltoyWolf
I didn’t know what I was looking at until you enlarged it. It would be cool on a tee shirt with the negative exposure.
@f00l@Kyeh Yeah, don’t ever point a naked lens at the Sun! Just like with your eyes, it can and will do serious permanent damage to the CCD through the lens(es). Place a filter over the lens, just like you do with the eclipse glasses for your eyes. (Also makes for a much better photo!)
Nice that someone got to see it. Cloudy here in 70-80%-ville central coastal California, only really effect was that it got a bit darker during the morning.
Some shots I took of the 55% peak we got down here in central Florida, around 1:30 PM EST. I put an eclipse viewing card over my camera lens that I still had from 2017. The third shot is of a pinhole viewer I made so other folks could see it.
@f00l@Kyeh For the pinhole picture, I just held the cardboard sheet at the right height off the target ‘screen’ I was using (a white cardboard box), and snapped a photo of said target screen and cropped it.
As for damage to your phone camera, if it seems to be working okay, it’s probably fine. Damage would likely manifest itself as spots, splotches, or discoloration on the screen while in camera mode.
@f00l@Kyeh@PooltoyWolf since people routinely include the sun behind them in selfies, and routinely take pictures of people in front of them with the sun in the view, the digital camera makers figured out really early that the CCD panels needed to be able to survive at least short term full sun. So you probably did no damage at all. Now, point a five watt laser at the lens, and I can pretty much guarantee there’s going to be a non-responsive spot there from that point on. This also should prove as an illustration of why lasers are not toys. Something that can destroy a device that has no problem with looking directly at the sun is really going to tear up your eye if you fail to use the adequate protection it requires. And maybe even if you do, if it isn’t properly installed. I recommend the YouTube channel Styropyro for an introductory course in how to really screw up things with a laser and why you shouldn’t try.
@Yoda_Daenerys During one of the pre-Plague eclipses, a rapper reportedly said he din need no emeffin glasses to see that eclipse. The following day, his publicist announced that he was cancelling upcoming performance dates due to health concerns. And then, last year, he fessed up to the real story.
Crater Lake National Park is about 4 hours from my house and sits dead-center of the totality zone. I drove down the night before the eclipse hoping to catch the show over the lake. We got there about 2 hours ahead of the scheduled time and I snapped this shot of the lake.
Sadly, I knew the clouds were going to make it a fight.
The view was amazing so we had no problems just taking it in and enjoying a trip to the south end of the state. When the time came, this was what we were looking at.
But we sat and watched and waited and caught about 8 glimpses (each about 30 seconds apart) and with determination, I was able to catch several “clean” shots through those striations in the clouds.
Not my first eclipse from a totality, but certainly the cloudiest. Still, I’m happy with my day out, and that first sunrise shot of the lake probably made the whole drive worth it.
I guess the best part of the cloud cover was making it possible to look directly at the annular eclipse which, unlike a total eclipse, leaves a LOT more light in your eyes from the ring of fire.
@ExtraMedium Those photos are magnificent! What a gorgeous location. The rippled clouds are really beautiful, and I’m glad you were still able to see the eclipse. It looks all cool and moody that way. Is it really safe to view it without glasses if there’s clouds, though?
@Kyeh I don’t know about “safe” but the photos are straight through the camera so what I captured is about as bright or visible as it got. Not even enough to leave the outline in my vision once the clouds rolled back over. I bought and brought glasses and filters for the event and didn’t end up even putting them on.
@ExtraMedium@tinamarie1974
Very nice shots, both the landscapes and the eclipse. What were you shooting? Were those all phone camera shots or did you have a DSLR?
@chienfou I used to have a full camera kit I would use for all of my photography, but after it was stolen I just started working with my phone. Over time, the phones got better and I learned to work around their limitations, so that’s all I’ve been using for a few years now. Just a cell phone and my own understanding of what does and doesn’t need to be in a shot in order for it to be a good photo. I did have a tripod for the event but with the clouds moving and my timing being pretty limited I ended up hand-holding most of my photos on the day.
@ExtraMedium
Nice job! I generally use my phone for ‘snapshot’ pics and have a DSLR if I am being picky or ‘artistic’. Love to carry a pocketable long lens P&S when I travel (generally a Canon) since the glass is so much better than a phone and you can get some great zoom shots that a phone can’t usually capture at the same resolution. I must say though phone pics have gotten SO much better, and the way they handle light issues (like backlighting etc) makes them pretty sweet for some applications.
Having a steady hand, understanding composition etc make the difference between a good shot and a great shot on a lot of occasions.
@lonocat The first last total eclipse I saw was near Mt Hood here in Oregon back in 2017 I think. That one made it like night time. Very cool experience.
@ExtraMedium total eclipses are really something, total darkness, seeing the stars,temperature drop, but especially the sounds, like all the birds chirping when the sun comes back!
@Yoda_Daenerys Yeah, I booked my stay in the path back in May because I knew it would get harder to find places as it got closer. Someone near me for the viewing said that prices had jumped to $300 a night. I booked at $100 about an hour from where I got my photos.
Drove up to Nashville for the last total up there a few years back. Was able to stay at the kids house which was great cuz they were in the middle of the totality zone. Unfortunately it was Uber cloudy that day and we saw absolutely zilch! Still had a good visit with the kids and the grandkids though.
I’m sorry you got crazy clouds last weekend, we got some thin clouds but we were mostly able to see through it. I’m planning to travel to Texas for April 8 for the total eclipse!
Oh, bummer! I hope that doesn’t happen to you in April!
I was feeling sorry for myself that I don’t live in the center of the path but at least we got to see it at about 80%.
@Kyeh
I got a pic similar to yours of the eclipse leaf shadows about a decade ago.
So cool.
@f00l @Kyeh I have one like that too through the trees. I figure buy the likely now discounted Lowe’s eclipse glasses now for April and the full eclipse.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh
I got my glasses from Amazon months ago… I think it was under $10 for 5 of them.
@Kyeh I love these crescent shadows so much! I’ve never been able to witness them in person. During the 2017 eclipse in Greenville, SC, it was totally obscured by clouds, and yesterday’s only reached 55 percent occlusion where we live in Orlando.
@PooltoyWolf The shadow pictures I got during the 2017 eclipse were even better:
@f00l @Kyeh
I never knew that was a thing, PRETTY and pretty cool!
@Kyeh Love them!
@f00l @Lynnerizer @PoolToyWolf
Thanks! I think they’d make neat fabric designs.
@f00l @Kyeh @Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf
I didn’t know what I was looking at until you enlarged it. It would be cool on a tee shirt with the negative exposure.
@f00l @Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf @Star2236 Ooo, it would!
@f00l @Kyeh @Lynnerizer @PooltoyWolf
If you do it you’ll have to show us, I’d love to see it.
The skies completely cleared as I was driving north.
So I got off the freeway a couple of times and got out my glasses to look.
Got this pic (hang on a min)
@f00l
Obviously I’m not a pro photog.
: )
@f00l Wow! Did you take that with your phone, though? I read dire warnings about doing that - I hope it didn’t apply to you.
@Kyeh I took that pic w phone.
Hope I didn’t blow the phone. It still seems to work ok.
@f00l Whew!
@f00l @Kyeh Yeah, don’t ever point a naked lens at the Sun! Just like with your eyes, it can and will do serious permanent damage to the CCD through the lens(es). Place a filter over the lens, just like you do with the eclipse glasses for your eyes. (Also makes for a much better photo!)
Some Texans saw this
@f00l Why did it look so orange?
@f00l @Kyeh I’m guessing that’s the color imparted by the eclipse viewing glasses.
@f00l @Kyeh @shahnm
@f00l @PooltoyWolf @shahnm OHHH.
@f00l
Or phone filter for taking pics, I saw they have those now.
Nice that someone got to see it. Cloudy here in 70-80%-ville central coastal California, only really effect was that it got a bit darker during the morning.
Some shots I took of the 55% peak we got down here in central Florida, around 1:30 PM EST. I put an eclipse viewing card over my camera lens that I still had from 2017. The third shot is of a pinhole viewer I made so other folks could see it.
@PooltoyWolf Those came out really well!
@Kyeh Thank you! ^^
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf
Please give instructions.
How does one use a phone to take a photo directly thru a pinhole viewer?
I’ve used a pinhole setup before and just taken a pic of the image on the ground.
HALP? We have another one (total) coming in April.
@f00l @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf You have it right. Those are the instructions. One does not use a pinhole aperture directly on the camera.
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf
Also, since I did point my camera dotectly at the sun without a filter, how can I tell if I damaged anything?
That phone seems to be taking normal test pix just fine today.
I’m not much of anything but a point and shoot person. And I have more than one device w camera around.
But I’d like to know how much damage my cluelessness may have caused and how to tell….
(Meeeeee stoooioopiiiiiid)
Sigh.
@f00l @Kyeh For the pinhole picture, I just held the cardboard sheet at the right height off the target ‘screen’ I was using (a white cardboard box), and snapped a photo of said target screen and cropped it.
As for damage to your phone camera, if it seems to be working okay, it’s probably fine. Damage would likely manifest itself as spots, splotches, or discoloration on the screen while in camera mode.
@f00l @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf love all your pics! We had clouds so no viewing in Misery (MO)
@f00l @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf since people routinely include the sun behind them in selfies, and routinely take pictures of people in front of them with the sun in the view, the digital camera makers figured out really early that the CCD panels needed to be able to survive at least short term full sun. So you probably did no damage at all. Now, point a five watt laser at the lens, and I can pretty much guarantee there’s going to be a non-responsive spot there from that point on. This also should prove as an illustration of why lasers are not toys. Something that can destroy a device that has no problem with looking directly at the sun is really going to tear up your eye if you fail to use the adequate protection it requires. And maybe even if you do, if it isn’t properly installed. I recommend the YouTube channel Styropyro for an introductory course in how to really screw up things with a laser and why you shouldn’t try.
@f00l @Kyeh @werehatrack That YouTube Channel is one of those guys I feel could die at any moment…hopefully not.
as all the cool kids here know, this total eclipse, from 2017, can be viewed, and photographed, ONCE IN TOTALITY, with the naked eye/camera lens.
@Yoda_Daenerys Being a rapper does not automatically make you a cool kid
@werehatrack ummm, wut?
@Yoda_Daenerys During one of the pre-Plague eclipses, a rapper reportedly said he din need no emeffin glasses to see that eclipse. The following day, his publicist announced that he was cancelling upcoming performance dates due to health concerns. And then, last year, he fessed up to the real story.
https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-06-15-joey-bada-admits-the-real-reason-he-claimed-to-have-eye-damage/#:~:text=Back in 2017%2C Joey Bada$$,the truth about his claims.
@werehatrack lol, never heard that story.
@ExtraMedium caught some great shots in the PNW.
Crater Lake National Park is about 4 hours from my house and sits dead-center of the totality zone. I drove down the night before the eclipse hoping to catch the show over the lake. We got there about 2 hours ahead of the scheduled time and I snapped this shot of the lake.
Sadly, I knew the clouds were going to make it a fight.
The view was amazing so we had no problems just taking it in and enjoying a trip to the south end of the state. When the time came, this was what we were looking at.
But we sat and watched and waited and caught about 8 glimpses (each about 30 seconds apart) and with determination, I was able to catch several “clean” shots through those striations in the clouds.
Not my first eclipse from a totality, but certainly the cloudiest. Still, I’m happy with my day out, and that first sunrise shot of the lake probably made the whole drive worth it.
I guess the best part of the cloud cover was making it possible to look directly at the annular eclipse which, unlike a total eclipse, leaves a LOT more light in your eyes from the ring of fire.
@ExtraMedium Those photos are magnificent! What a gorgeous location. The rippled clouds are really beautiful, and I’m glad you were still able to see the eclipse. It looks all cool and moody that way. Is it really safe to view it without glasses if there’s clouds, though?
@Kyeh I don’t know about “safe” but the photos are straight through the camera so what I captured is about as bright or visible as it got. Not even enough to leave the outline in my vision once the clouds rolled back over. I bought and brought glasses and filters for the event and didn’t end up even putting them on.
@ExtraMedium Stunning photos. I would hang them on the wall!
@ExtraMedium stunning
@ExtraMedium @tinamarie1974
Very nice shots, both the landscapes and the eclipse. What were you shooting? Were those all phone camera shots or did you have a DSLR?
@chienfou I used to have a full camera kit I would use for all of my photography, but after it was stolen I just started working with my phone. Over time, the phones got better and I learned to work around their limitations, so that’s all I’ve been using for a few years now. Just a cell phone and my own understanding of what does and doesn’t need to be in a shot in order for it to be a good photo. I did have a tripod for the event but with the clouds moving and my timing being pretty limited I ended up hand-holding most of my photos on the day.
@ExtraMedium
Nice job! I generally use my phone for ‘snapshot’ pics and have a DSLR if I am being picky or ‘artistic’. Love to carry a pocketable long lens P&S when I travel (generally a Canon) since the glass is so much better than a phone and you can get some great zoom shots that a phone can’t usually capture at the same resolution. I must say though phone pics have gotten SO much better, and the way they handle light issues (like backlighting etc) makes them pretty sweet for some applications.
Having a steady hand, understanding composition etc make the difference between a good shot and a great shot on a lot of occasions.
@chienfou @ExtraMedium Canon SX 620 by choice here. Like many other things, I actually have too many cameras. It’s almost embarrassing.
Kinda cool how it got dark, not like night, but like stormy weather, except there was no clouds in the sky here in west Texas.
@lonocat The first last total eclipse I saw was near Mt Hood here in Oregon back in 2017 I think. That one made it like night time. Very cool experience.
@ExtraMedium total eclipses are really something, total darkness, seeing the stars,temperature drop, but especially the sounds, like all the birds chirping when the sun comes back!
I am going to need tips and hints for the eclipse next spring. I am in the path and want to be prepared.
Last total I saw was many years ago looking through a welding helmet lens. Decent partial a few years back was cloudy and hard to see.
@speediedelivery you’ll be able to view, and photograph, in april without filters or glasses.
@speediedelivery @Yoda_Daenerys
But only when it’s at totality - to see the stages leading up to it you still need the glasses.
i plan to travel for the one on april 8 2024, to get to a totality zone, just wish they could forecast clouds six months out.
hotels are super expensive along the path that day…
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html?Lat=37.02093&Lng=-23.78655&Zoom=4&LC=1
@Yoda_Daenerys Yeah, I booked my stay in the path back in May because I knew it would get harder to find places as it got closer. Someone near me for the viewing said that prices had jumped to $300 a night. I booked at $100 about an hour from where I got my photos.
Many years ago I took photos of an eclipse as it was reflected in the farm’s pond. No wind that day do it was a pretty good way to do it.
@Kidsandliz That would be a great way to do it!
Drove up to Nashville for the last total up there a few years back. Was able to stay at the kids house which was great cuz they were in the middle of the totality zone. Unfortunately it was Uber cloudy that day and we saw absolutely zilch! Still had a good visit with the kids and the grandkids though.
I’m sorry you got crazy clouds last weekend, we got some thin clouds but we were mostly able to see through it. I’m planning to travel to Texas for April 8 for the total eclipse!
Here’s a picture and link to the time lapse I took in hydrogen alpha made a fancy youtube video to commemorate the occasion