Wide Eclipse Sequence

Well, that was an interesting experience.  I was in central Oregon for the eclipse, and probably bit off more than I could chew, photo-wise, since I'd never photographed an eclipse before.  I set up three cameras, flubbed one-and-a-half totality sequences and almost forgot to look up during the main event.  Next time I'll seek out an eclipse that offers more than just 90 seconds of totality.

But a few things came out.  One of the sequences I tried to capture was a series of wide shots to show the progression of the sun over a landscape.  It came out better than expected but still had loads of issues.  So this is "photo art" in every sense of the word.  The timing of my shots in the sequence was off, and I'm fairly certain I bumped the camera once (if not twice) when removing and replacing the solar filter.  So the sequence was out of alignment, had weird colors and the sun was even distorted a bit toward the end thanks to the lens.

So this took a fair bit of work to come up with an approximate representation of what I saw (obviously the yellowish color is in there due to the solar filter... I lessened but did not desaturate it completely).  Hopefully the long lens composites will be a bit easier to deal with.  Then I can scurry back to my wildlife photos.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 17-40mm @17mm
ISO 200
1/250th (1/8th for the base layer at totality)
f/4

Max

PS - If you're wondering how the post-eclipse experience went, I wrote about it here.  Curious if anyone else went through something similar.