Neat! It didn't occur to me to look in to picking up a filter for my camera, idiot I, but I'm also trying to be kinda frugal with money right now until I can whack another couple hundred $$$ off our monthly outflow. Last night my wife reminded me that forest foliage can act as pinholes, so weather permitting (which isn't promising, sadly) I may do some time lapse photography with my two cameras as I bought a second timer.
Also, birds and other animals freak during solar eclipses. Sound recording in a forest might be interesting, maybe I'll use my Lumix to record video to give me an audio recording.
Yeah, you can probably dial down to ISO 100 no problem. The sun is kinda bright. :-) It's also inherently grainy, so don't be surprised if you don't get a smooth result.
Something you might want to acquire and try. First, the acquisition: an intervalometer. I bought a used Canon timer for my 6D and it's wonderful for some things, and, as mentioned above, bought a second timer so I can have both of my bodies shooting simultaneously. It opens up a world of things that you can experiment with. Second, there are web sites that will tell you when the International Space Station is transiting the sun. With a timer, you can do multiple exposures of the ISS transit, then composite them in Photoshop and get a cool series of dots of the space station across the sun....
I have a photograph and video where I caught the ISS during a night photography experiment with such a timer that I'm VERY happy about. The ISS streaks across the video about 8 seconds in from top just right of center to lower left.
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Date: 2017-08-17 03:37 pm (UTC)Also, birds and other animals freak during solar eclipses. Sound recording in a forest might be interesting, maybe I'll use my Lumix to record video to give me an audio recording.
Yeah, you can probably dial down to ISO 100 no problem. The sun is kinda bright. :-) It's also inherently grainy, so don't be surprised if you don't get a smooth result.
Something you might want to acquire and try. First, the acquisition: an intervalometer. I bought a used Canon timer for my 6D and it's wonderful for some things, and, as mentioned above, bought a second timer so I can have both of my bodies shooting simultaneously. It opens up a world of things that you can experiment with. Second, there are web sites that will tell you when the International Space Station is transiting the sun. With a timer, you can do multiple exposures of the ISS transit, then composite them in Photoshop and get a cool series of dots of the space station across the sun....
I have a photograph and video where I caught the ISS during a night photography experiment with such a timer that I'm VERY happy about. The ISS streaks across the video about 8 seconds in from top just right of center to lower left.
https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/1016098.html