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Preparing for the solar eclipse

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August 5, 2017

Sunrise over the Empire State Building in NYC. Photo by Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan at Pier C Park, Hoboken, New Jersey.

Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan wrote in early August:

With just weeks left for the Great American Eclipse, I decided to shoot the sunrise sequence using my solar filter. During the eclipse, I’ll likewise be focusing on doing a wide-angle and telephoto composite. The foreground was taken before the sunrise to get a silhouette of the Empire State Building in New York City. The remaining solar disc imaging was done using my solar filter.

Canon 5D Mark III, Canon EF 100-400 mm F4.5-5.6 L Lens

Exposures:
Foreground – 220mm @ ISO 100, F8.0, 1/800s
Sun sequence: 220mm @ ISO 640, F8.0, 1/320s spaced 2 minutes 30 seconds apart

Solar Filter: Thousand Oaks Filter

Thank you, Gowri!

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