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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Chasing Shadows

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  October 12, 2017 astrophotography, photography, travel photography
This is the one shot I had all my camera settings tailored to capture. Most of the other photographers around me thought I was crazy for trying to shoot an eclipse at f/32. I did it because I wanted an image of the last rays of Sun before being completely covered by the Moon; that moment you realize this is going to be very different than a partial eclipse, that feeling that made everyone in the path of the total eclipse go "oooh". It's not really how your eye sees it in that moment in time, but I think it illustrates exactly how you remember it later on.

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The first time I saw a total solar eclipse was in Romania in 1999. My home was in an area with something like 98% partial coverage. We didn’t have internet at home back then, so I couldn’t easily look up what the difference between 98% and totality really was. I almost stayed at home. Luckily, on … Continue reading

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