First off, David and Aram, thanks for your wonderful telephoto photos of
totality. As I said earlier, I knew I could count on you for those
pictures, so I could mostly concentrate on watching my first total eclipse.
Re. my wide shot: When I spoke of "Olympus colors," I was speaking
metaphorically. :-) Like David, I only shoot Raw. Just before
totality, I set my camera to settings that I knew worked just after
sunset, figuring that the eclipse would be similar. Normally, I use a
"Sunny" setting for such conditions. That gave me the too-blue picture I
first posted, which really did seem Olympus/Fujichrome blue.
What was better? The "Shade" setting, which expected light from a
normal blue sky. This somehow displayed the more whitish metallic blue
sky that my eyes had perceived. Since I shot Raw and the color temp
settings weren't baked in, it was a simple matter to change the setting
in Capture One, tweak it a little, and all was well.
David, you asked if I saw the sunset in many directions. Indeed, I
did. Where we were didn't have a clear 360 degree view, but there were
good sectional views southeast (shown on my picture), north and west. I
saw them briefly as I spun slowly around to take them in near the
beginning of totality. And yes, I did feel the cooler breeze as we got
toward totality. I noted something else very interesting. During the
early partial phase, I noticed that the sun felt less and less warm on
the skin of my bare arms, long before I perceived any dimming of light.
Katya noticed it, too. It makes sense--I think we feel temperature
linearly, but we see light levels logarithmically.
When blown up to 100%, my eclipsed sun also has a lot of purple
fringing, which extends well into the dark moon. Capture One has an
adjustment to minimize this, but it wasn't enough. So I created a mask
and partially desaturated the moon and its outer edge. I also masked the
bottom of the photo, and the areas of sunset color, and gave each an
exposure level and color temperature that made them appear as I
remembered. A lot of work for what I initially considered a quickie
grab shot! But I'm very happy with the result.
--Peter
Hi Peter!refers to are
Glad you like the shot. I rather do, too!
Unklike Peter Klein, I only shoot raw. The "Olympus colours" he
in the in-camra jpeg processing.Telyt 400/6.8.
The thin red line (so to speak) is a direct result of using the
It is a simple achromat (cemented doublet) and so suffers form somechromatic
aberration... the purple fringing.leaves, to my
I have re-done the image, reducing the red, to compensate. This
eye, a smaller blue band. Reducing the blue, however, leaves ayellow band!
Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chance.elements and a
The red at the 1 and 3:30 (ish) o'clock positions are solar flares
(prominences). The rest is good ol' CA.
I love the lens as [a] it is incredibly light, being just two
lot of air - great for a wildlife guy to carry in the bush - [b] it isnecessity!)
incredibly sharp and optimized for wide open use (at 6.8 that's a
and because [c] it breaks into two, for easy carrying in a camerabag. But it
does suffer a little CA, which I neglected to correct the first timearound.
explain to
The corrected version is here:
http://www.furnfeather.ca/eclipse/2017_Corona-REV.html
The original is here: http://www.furnfeather.ca/eclipse/2017_Corona.html
Better?
Thanks for looking and asking! (Somebody's gotta keep me on my toes!)
David.
Hi David. I agree with Aram. That is an excellent image. Could you
me what created the thin purple ring between the dark of the moon andthe
corona of the sun? Was that a filter being used, a function of theOlympus
much like Peter referred to in his posting about taking toning downthe Oly
blue tendency, or something else? It's beautiful, but I don't whatcaused it.
becomes
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: LRflex <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2017, 10:22:35 AM EDT
Subject: [LRflex] Totality
I know, images of the eclipse are getting "old hat". But, before it
far too stale, here is my version of totality.
http://www.furnfeather.ca/eclipse/2017_Corona.html
C&C welcomed, as always.
David.
