Posts Made By: James Brown

Jim Brown said:

Hi Gang:

We must have passed a dozen MAGA billboards on ranches! They take their politics seriously up here in cattle country. These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

Roland Christen said:

From Casper Wyoming, shot with 130GDX Starfire refractor, by Marj Christen, processed by me, 5 shots @ 1/250 second and 3 shots @ 1/100 second layered in Photoshop, Sony NEX7 camera. We had thin high altitude cloud that appeared just as totality occurred. Although it obscured the outermost corona, it added some faint rainbow colors to the corona and especially to the diamond ring.

This is my first attempt at combining some Jpegs. I will eventually process the Raws which should produce better dynamic range.

Rolando