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Hi James, Thanks for the link! My photographer is taking a nap right now, but I will be sure to go over it with her. We lost and found our camera over the past couple of days (slow-growing panic was threatening) and it was so bittersweet to receive our new 70-300 IS II USM lens and have not the camera to attach it to! But now they are connected and Naomi is starting to experiment with it. Now we just hope to receive our solar lens paper before we planned to leave on the trip! We planned to leave Friday after Reese gets off work, so that we can drive partway, stay with relatives in Ohio and continue the rest of the journey on Saturday. I do advise traveling most or all of the way on Saturday because of that predicted bad traffic. We were going to stay with friends in Tennessee for Saturday and Sunday nights, but now we have contacted a church just 15 minutes from our planned viewing site in Fairview, KY, so that we can stay as close as possible and have plenty of time to drive to the site! I am trying to add 2 hours to any drive, even the 15-minute one! You never know when you will have a flat tire, blown head gasket, etc. 🙂 The tracking says it will arrive on or before 8 pm on Friday. I may see if I can get Fed-Ex to hold it and allow us to pick it up at their facility Friday at our convenience. However, the last time I tried that (it happened to be when we were expecting the camera last January before a wedding!) it delayed the delivery an extra day. We don’t want THAT! All the solar lenses are sold out or jacked up with price gouging, so we will attempt to make our own “hood” out of the solar paper and some black PVC or something, that we can slip over the camera lens. If anyone has advice on how to do that, please sing out! I bought a regular lens cover that I thought of trying to attach the solar paper to, and then just screw it onto the end of the lens. Does anyone have any thoughts about that? The edges might be messy, but with 300 mm, the sun should be well within the edges of the shot and any glue or tape could be cropped out?
Solar eclipse – WOW! Even on YouTube it was amazing. For those who went, the rest of us are looking forward to a full report with pictures.
Yes! I didn’t get to see one bit of it, so I’m anxiously waiting to see other’s pictures, please post! 🙂
It wasn’t total where I live, and I didn’t shoot it. But I’m looking forward to seeing some pictures here! 🙂
@Jamesstaddon? I know you were taking pictures, I saw you. 🙂
Oh there’s so much I want to share about this incredible experience! It was a lot of fun to travel down with the Parfitts and photograph and experience the entire event with friends down there in North Carolina.
For starters, you can see some of the best photos from the eclipse at http://www.lenspiration.photos/eclipse
There’s so much I would do differently next time! The collage showing the different phases of the eclipse was only possible due to the Parfitts forethought in buying the solar filter film ahead of time (and generosity in letting us other photographers use some of their leftovers!), and the “super advanced” Photoshop merging technique worked really well for the HDR merge allowing you to see in a single photo the incredible dynamic range of light that was still surrounding totality.
I’m dying to see the photos from all of you guys! Did you capture anything you liked? Can you share them here?
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