NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Could you elaborate on your shooting process while using an equatorial mount? i.e. using guiding software or manually adjusting your setting as it progresses? My process is very simple: I let Autumn do it 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganhaysphoto Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapses are you just setting the camera up via photopills AR when you get to where you are shooting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapses are you just setting the camera up via photopills AR when you get to where you are shooting? Yes sir! PhotoPills is my favorite way to get an idea of the path the sun will take so you can line up your composition ahead of time. I'd recommend scouting a day or two ahead of time also so you don't end up running around recomposing while the eclipse is happening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autpops Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Quote What lens are u planning to use for shooting the eclipse? Also, depending on the scene that we're able to find, I may use a Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II lens to capture a wider landscape during totality to composite all of the phases into in Photoshop. Products Used FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM IILenses 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karthz Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hello Autumn and Nate, love both of your work and thanks for doing this AMA. I've never photographed a solar eclipse before. How do you plan for an event like this - do you pick a location in the path, based on the landscapes, weather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielexmachina Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 My partner and I will be in a national park near Mazatlan and want to get a zoomed shot of the eclipse with some foreground (e.g. between rock formations). Obviously this requires knowing exactly where the sun will be in the sky relative to our position. Any recommendations for app/sites to help plan that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 My partner and I will be in a national park near Mazatlan and want to get a zoomed shot of the eclipse with some foreground (e.g. between rock formations). Obviously this requires knowing exactly where the sun will be in the sky relative to our position. Any recommendations for app/sites to help plan that? Oh that shot sounds AWESOME! My favorite app for that is called PhotoPills. It costs a bit of money (I think $20) but it's worth every penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autpops Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hello Autumn and Nate, love both of your work and thanks for doing this AMA. I've never photographed a solar eclipse before. How do you plan for an event like this - do you pick a location in the path, based on the landscapes, weather? Aww, thanks for the kind words! We unfortunately only have 3 days in between projects for the eclipse, so we chose our location based on proximity to home and made sure it was in the longest part of totality to maximize our chances of capturing it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveagee Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 where in the path of totality are you planning to shoot the eclipse? (you don't have to give us the exact location, but like what state) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Bradford Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapse, are you planning a landscape timelapse or "just" a solar timelapse? Am I right in thinking if it's a landscape timelapse there would be a LOT of blending? Each partial eclipse image would have to be blended with the totality foreground? Is that totally a manual process or is there a nifty tool that would do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 where in the path of totality are you planning to shoot the eclipse? (you don't have to give us the exact location, but like what state) We're going to be in Texas! Seemed like a good bet for clear(ish) skies this time of year, as well as decent proximity to our house compared with the east coast locations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielexmachina Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 My partner and I will be in a national park near Mazatlan and want to get a zoomed shot of the eclipse with some foreground (e.g. between rock formations). Obviously this requires knowing exactly where the sun will be in the sky relative to our position. Any recommendations for app/sites to help plan that? Ok cool, we've used Stellarium before for astro planning, does PhotoPills have more features? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autpops Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hello Autumn and Nate, love both of your work and thanks for doing this AMA. I've never photographed a solar eclipse before. How do you plan for an event like this - do you pick a location in the path, based on the landscapes, weather? We looked for a more remote location, partly to avoid crowds and partly to have more of an opportunity to include a wider landscape in the shot too. We'll be in Texas, so hopefully weather will cooperate! Weather is definitely the most difficult thing to predict when hoping to photograph an eclipse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 My partner and I will be in a national park near Mazatlan and want to get a zoomed shot of the eclipse with some foreground (e.g. between rock formations). Obviously this requires knowing exactly where the sun will be in the sky relative to our position. Any recommendations for app/sites to help plan that? I haven't used Stellarium, but PhotoPills has every feature I could ever imagine and then several more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapse, are you planning a landscape timelapse or "just" a solar timelapse? Am I right in thinking if it's a landscape timelapse there would be a LOT of blending? Each partial eclipse image would have to be blended with the totality foreground? Is that totally a manual process or is there a nifty tool that would do that? I wouldn't blend any! I think it would be cool to do a landscape timelapse that shows the foreground going from full sun to totality and back again and if you blend the foreground then you'd lose all that change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapse, are you planning a landscape timelapse or "just" a solar timelapse? Am I right in thinking if it's a landscape timelapse there would be a LOT of blending? Each partial eclipse image would have to be blended with the totality foreground? Is that totally a manual process or is there a nifty tool that would do that? But we're going to be using an equatorial mount to do a close-up timelapse of just the sun itself since the foreground where we're going to be in Texas isn't suuuuuuper interesting haha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hello Autumn and Nate, love both of your work and thanks for doing this AMA. I've never photographed a solar eclipse before. How do you plan for an event like this - do you pick a location in the path, based on the landscapes, weather? Hi Karthz! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Bradford Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapse, are you planning a landscape timelapse or "just" a solar timelapse? Am I right in thinking if it's a landscape timelapse there would be a LOT of blending? Each partial eclipse image would have to be blended with the totality foreground? Is that totally a manual process or is there a nifty tool that would do that? OOOO!!! I didn't even think of it that way! I was thinking about using the filter the whole time, but it WOULD be so cool to show the effect of totality! I'll be MC'ing an event in Maine so that would capture that whole feel! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 For your timelapse, are you planning a landscape timelapse or "just" a solar timelapse? Am I right in thinking if it's a landscape timelapse there would be a LOT of blending? Each partial eclipse image would have to be blended with the totality foreground? Is that totally a manual process or is there a nifty tool that would do that? The solar filter is really only necessary if you're shooting up close on the sun, but if you're shooting the entire scene (at say, 16mm) then the sun won't be intense enough to need a filter. It'll be more like a standard daytime timelapse in terms of camera damage (basically none) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha-jessica-a Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 Another question from socials: How do you deal with clouds on special eclipse events? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateintheWild Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Another question from socials: How do you deal with clouds on special eclipse events? Sadly that's just the name of the game with nature photography. Sometimes the weather cooperates and sometimes it doesn't. If it's cloudy I will deal with it by pouting and feeling sad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autpops Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Quote Another question from socials: How do you deal with clouds on special eclipse events? Get really sad haha. But it can turn out to be REALLY cool in the end if the clouds are thin enough in spots. We photographed and filmed the annular solar eclipse that just happened this past October and I think the clouds ended up giving it a more ethereal, unique feel! You can see the video here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywalterphoto Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Could you elaborate on your shooting process while using an equatorial mount? i.e. using guiding software or manually adjusting your setting as it progresses? Awesome! I had saw during your stories for the annular eclipse that you guys picked up an EQ mount and started playing with my azimuth mount crossing my fingers that it would work. Then my spouse surprised me with an EQ for this eclipse! Crossing my fingers for clear weather now! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveagee Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 this might be more of an astro photography question, but how do you get your stars (or moon/sun) so sharp? Once we're dealing with infinity as a focal length I have a lot of focus issues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganhaysphoto Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Another question from socials: How do you deal with clouds on special eclipse events? Honestly I love that video more than anyone's stuff from last year because of the clouds :) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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