Re: Gallery: Annular Eclipse, 2012 May
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 3:26 am
Annular Eclipse Over Zion Canyon
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Copyright: Scott Tucker Finally had a chance to really go through my annular eclipse photos and have one in particular I'm quite happy with. We drove from Tucson, AZ, to Zion National Park, Utah. The hope was to have some fantastic foreground scenery. I calculated using Google Earth that there was a location in the park where we would get annularity right above some great cliffs and peaks. We heard later that park rangers were turning people away at the gates because there was nowhere in the park where the cliffs wouldn't block the sun that late in the day. Which was generally true, but we managed to find the one magic spot! It was on a hairpin turn just below the 1.1-mile-long tunnel coming in from the east entrance. The tunnel was closed the next afternoon due to a fire and all traffic was blocked from the road we were on. So glad that didn't happen the day of the eclipse! All in all, an amazing event in an amazing place.
The image here is a composite of 8 exposures of different exposure times all shot in quick succession. Details below.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II
Focal Length: 34mm
F-stop: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter Speeds: 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 unfiltered, plus 1/125 filtered (from 7:38:09 to 7:38:58 PM MDT)
Processing: Unfiltered images were averaged in MaxIm DL, then stretched using digital development processing to compress the tonal range. Then lots of Photoshop magic!
Larger version
Thanks for checking it out!
Scott Tucker
http://www.darkskyimages.com
Copyright: Scott Tucker Finally had a chance to really go through my annular eclipse photos and have one in particular I'm quite happy with. We drove from Tucson, AZ, to Zion National Park, Utah. The hope was to have some fantastic foreground scenery. I calculated using Google Earth that there was a location in the park where we would get annularity right above some great cliffs and peaks. We heard later that park rangers were turning people away at the gates because there was nowhere in the park where the cliffs wouldn't block the sun that late in the day. Which was generally true, but we managed to find the one magic spot! It was on a hairpin turn just below the 1.1-mile-long tunnel coming in from the east entrance. The tunnel was closed the next afternoon due to a fire and all traffic was blocked from the road we were on. So glad that didn't happen the day of the eclipse! All in all, an amazing event in an amazing place.
The image here is a composite of 8 exposures of different exposure times all shot in quick succession. Details below.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II
Focal Length: 34mm
F-stop: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter Speeds: 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 unfiltered, plus 1/125 filtered (from 7:38:09 to 7:38:58 PM MDT)
Processing: Unfiltered images were averaged in MaxIm DL, then stretched using digital development processing to compress the tonal range. Then lots of Photoshop magic!
Larger version
Thanks for checking it out!
Scott Tucker
