Annular Eclipse

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 20, 2012454 views18 comments

I live in Albuquerque which was a perfect location for the annular eclipse.

This image was done completely in camera using the multiple exposure functions in the Canon 5D Mark III. Zero post processing. This is simply a jpeg export from the Raw file. What a cool sight to see. Hope you enjoy the image, and hope you got to see this spectacular sight!

Canon 5D Mark III
500mm f/4

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Jeremy Cram on May 20, 2012 at 11:47 PM

wow...how cool is that!

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Comment posted by Ned Fenimore on May 20, 2012 at 11:55 PM

Amazing!

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Comment posted by Rob Graham on May 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM

Beautiful and well done, Keith. We achieved something close to the second image here in central Kansas, though the shadow was on the other side at sunset.

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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on May 21, 2012 at 12:40 AM

Keith, this is pretty cool! Nice work!

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Comment posted by Tom Kualii on May 21, 2012 at 1:25 AM

That really must have been cool to watch. Nice capture.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on May 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM

Wish we could have seen that here! Very nice work keith. Thanks for giving us a look...

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Rick Goldwasser on May 21, 2012 at 9:12 AM

Nice work here, pretty amazing!

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on May 21, 2012 at 9:21 AM

Saw it too. I was a neat sight. Did you notice how your shadow was sharp on one side and fuzzy on the other.

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Comment posted by Youssef Ismail on May 21, 2012 at 12:44 PM

Nicely done Keith. Great sequence. My only suggestion would be more room on top to balance out the bottom. Should not be hard to just add to the canvas and fill it with black.

Tony where we were, we had the view of the annularity, and our shadows were blurry on all sides during totality. It was very cool.

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on May 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM

Incredible. Simply incredible. One amazing image of a rare event.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on May 21, 2012 at 9:19 PM

Saweet!!

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Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on May 21, 2012 at 10:06 PM

Fabulous!! this is the best eclipse photo I've seen yet. Love it.

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Comment posted by Jon Daining on May 21, 2012 at 10:29 PM

Keith, this is great! I was not aware of the capability to shoot a multiple exposure like this with the new 5Dmkiii. It certainly is neat to think of this as one shot. It seems risky putting all your eggs in one basket so to speak; however, your execution appears perfect.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on May 22, 2012 at 7:49 AM

Great job on this Keith! Lucky you living in New Mexico and the clear weather as well..
Would be interesting to know how far apart these exposures are?
I made a stab at documenting the event here in Central Texas, got 2 or 3 minutes as the sun set behind come clouds.

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on May 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM

Howard asked:

Would be interesting to know how far apart these exposures are?

The exposures were all about 10 to 11 minutes apart except for the last capture (the full annular eclipse). It was about 20 minutes after the previous shot.

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Comment posted by Richard Olsen on May 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM

Keith, this is VERY COOL! That took some planning!
Well done

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on May 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM

Wonderful vision and great job putting this together with just the camera!

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Comment posted by Bill Dark on May 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM

What a beautiful series of exposures! I do wonder about the orientation of the sun here...In the northern hemisphere, it should be moving north (to the right) as it sets, instead of to the left.

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