Battle In The Heavens

[Mad Aussie]

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 ...

[Hillbillygirl]

That is so cool MA. Really like these.

[Bambi]

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

[Iguanasan]

Very cool, MA. Nicely captured.

[Marko]

Yup dig the coolness factor here!

[Realist]

Very nicely done!

[Matt K.]

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

[Mad Aussie]

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.

[Matt K.]

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

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 ...

[Mad Aussie]

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 ...

True enough!