10/18/2023
This is awesome! Great job!
Here is my first-ever annular eclipse picture.
https://www.adamblockphotos.com/annular-eclipse-2023.html
It is obviously a composite of images. The foreground was captured unfiltered at just the moment the Sun was peeking over this famous rock at Monument Valley, UT. Then I put a solar filter on the camera lens and captured the resulting sequence from partial eclipse to annular and back.
Some technical stuff. I used my Canon Ra and zoom lens at 24mm. This enabled me to fit the entire sequence in a single frame (I was worried it wouldn't fit!). It made for small images... but necessary to fit everything. The initial foreground shot was stopped down to get the "rays" of the sun (diffraction from the lens iris). The filtered shots were 1/1000th of a second at ISO 100.
It was a little chilly to begin the day here early in the morning in the shadow of this famous mountain. It didn't warm up either since the Sun was being covered. It was very nice at the end!
Thanks to for the inspiration. This is exactly the shot I was hoping to get having seen his version of a similar 2012 eclipse.
