ECLIPSE Asignation

[ic-racer]

Wow, that was fantastic. They should have that every spring.

[Michael R]

Are the Eclipse team all stunned into silence ?

Meh. Nothing particularly captivating from my perspective. Just basic mechanics.

[Drew Wiley]

I was out washing the car and didn't even notice. Only a small bite out of the sun here on the West Coast this time around. The most I've ever personally seen was around 80% - critters and shadows did begin acting strange; roosters crowed when it started getting sunnier again.

[ic-racer]

I took my eye away from the viewfinder (where the eclipse was filling the frame) and, even though the sun looked tiny, the view was magnificent, Very eerie. I can't imagine not wanting to see it in person.
The dynamic range of the transition to total is too much for film, you have to experience it yourself. Unless one is happy seeing it as a photoshopped, multilayered digital concoction on the computer screen.

[Tin Can]

I am NOT posting any Eclipse photos

We shot enough!

Shot through the paper 1000 power lenses and old DSLR

and never needed to get more than 20 ft off porch

No traffic on my space or road

No rain

Thin high clouds

ENHANCED the shots!!!

PTL

[Ron McElroy]

This eclipse was the first time I experienced totality. A wonderful thing to set and experience.

Getting there and especially coming back home was not fun. The last 16 miles from Marion, Arkansas to home took 2 hours with the majority of that getting across the Mississippi river.

[Daniel Unkefer]

We were there early (9:30 AM) at Kingwood Gardens in Mansfield. When totality elapsed, we bolted to the car, we parked right up front. Traffic was not bad coming back since we were one of first to leave.

[Conrad . Marvin]

I was at 87% with almost clear conditions and able to watch the goings on around me. A friend in Rochester told me that George Eastman’s alleged assessment that Rochester was the greatest natural outdoor darkroom (cloud cover) came true.

[Corran]

Despite forecasts of rain and heavy cloud cover, the day turned out to be 90% clear, with some wispy clouds passing occasionally.

I shot one sheet of 4x5, a 3-hour exposure with 20x ND filter, with 47mm XL. I also shot a sheet of 8x10 with completely unknown Efke IR film with a 700nm filter. No guesses on whether that'll come out.

I then shot my Nikon D800, at 14mm, at 1-minute intervals. I messed up and didn't have a filter but I ripped one of my solar glasses filters out and taped it to the rear element. Worked pretty well from what I can tell. Will stack that image up while my film is drying when I develop tonight. Looking forward to it...hope I got something worthwhile.

[Mark Sampson]

My idea was to show what an ordinary subject (my backyard) looked like under the 83% eclipse seen here in Tucson.
Of course there were high thin clouds to diffuse the effect- a loss of about 2-1/2 stops worth of light.
We shall see when I develop the film!