Battle In The Heavens

Last week Australia was lucky enough to have an early morning total eclipse of the sun by the moon.

In our region though the eclipse was not total ... and I forgot about it and it was well into it before I realised and started shooting ...

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That is so cool MA. Really like these.

this is really interesting! I love the repetition within the images.

Very cool, MA. Nicely captured. :thumbup:

Yup dig the coolness factor here!

Very nicely done!

Interesting indeed ... what kind of filter did you use for this one?

Thanks people :)

The repetition was caused by the fact I was shooting directly at the sun so the reflections are caused by the glass elements within the 400mm lens. The sheer brightness kept the image soft. If I used a higher aperture it eliminated the reflections and just looked like a white ball with a crescent cut out of it. I could have made that in photoshop.

Matt ... I screwed on an ND4, an ND8, and a CP ... apart from that it's out of camera.

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Originally Posted by Mad Aussie

I screwed on an ND4, an ND8, and a CP ... apart from that it's out of camera.

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Wow, kinda what I thought, actually, I thought you might have used a 10 stop filter, with the reflections and all ... multiple layers of filters could have given you easily more reflections ...

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Originally Posted by Matt K.

Wow, kinda what I thought, actually, I thought you might have used a 10 stop filter, with the reflections and all ... multiple layers of filters could have given you easily more reflections ...

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True enough!