Eclipse

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Last edited Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:26 PM - Edit history (2)

We drove up to my in-laws in Sheridan, Oregon (10 hours up I-5) for the eclipse. We had totality for a little over a minute. Being the well prepared guy that I am I neglected to bring a filter for my camera, and I missed shots as the moon moved across the sun. My longest lens was a 50-100mm Sigma, so I had to rely on cropping to get the larger images.

Anywayyy.....

A quick shot as the eclipse approached totality (not that you could tell without a filter) and the sky began to darken:




My in-laws have yellowjackets (lots of fruit trees) and as the sky began to darken these guys began to set down:




Got a couple of shots at totality:





Also got a shot of the Diamond Effect as the period of totality began to pass:






I took the tripod, but didn't use it; it was a balance between trying to get some images, while also enjoying the overall experience. We could see some of the brighter stars, and the temperature dropped several degrees during totality. All in all, a very cool experience.

[rzemanfl]

1. Wonderful pictures. n/t

[Adsos Letter]

19. Thank you. n/t

[hlthe2b]

2. Gorgeous--including the yellow jacket (my sometime nemesis)

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To this eye, you didn't need that other lens.

[Adsos Letter]

20. LOL

Thank you.

[KT2000]

3. great pics!

[Adsos Letter]

21. Thanks.

Luck, more than anything.

[longship]

4. Nice! R&K nt

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22. Thanks! n/t

[lunasun]

5. Awesome ! I agree a very cool experience. I am happy I took time off for a short travel to see it

[Adsos Letter]

23. It was worth the drive from the SF Bay Area.

Including the execrable traffic going home!

[lunasun]

29. Yes a slow crawl back but with big satisfied smiles on all our faces.

[onit2day]

6. Your pics made my experience better. My camera

kept saying this card write protected and wouldn't let me take pictures, so didn't want to miss the event I just set camera down. Byut man the patterns on the ground from the trees were unique. There's a movable lever on the card. I moved it back down and camera (Nikon coolpix) worked fine after that. Your diamond effects pic is awesome. Thanks for posting

[Adsos Letter]

24. I wish your card had worked!

I kept alternating between taking photos and wanting to just sit and enjoy the experience.

[spike jones]

7. My son, family, and friends drove to eastern Oregon for the eclipse.

He said that it was totally worth the trip, and that the difference between a total eclipse and a partial eclipse is like the difference between night and day, and that nothing in his lifetime is likely to eclipse this experience.

[Adsos Letter]

25. It was pretty amazing.

When it slid into totality it really changed things up.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Beautiful. nt

[Adsos Letter]

26. It was.

Thank you.

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

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27. Thanks, Solly.

[Permanut]

10. Nicely done, Adsos Letter..

I was just down the road about 40 miles from you in Lincoln City. Great shots of a once in a lifetime event.

[Adsos Letter]

28. I started over toward Lincoln City the day before the eclipse, just to visit the coast.

Got sidetracked at some place called Going Green Grande Ronde. Things are a little hazy after that.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. Beautiful pics!

Are you a professional photographer? Those are outstanding!

I wish I could have seen the totality; we had 81% coverage where I live. It was still stunning, though.

[Adsos Letter]

30. Nope, not a Pro by any stretch.

Just like taking photos.

[montana_hazeleyes]

12. Great pics Adsos Letter.

I especially love the first and last ones. And the yellow jacket thinking, well, time to hunker down for the night!

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31. It was...eerie...to see the critters responding to the change in light and temperature.

And whatever else they were reacting to.

Thank you.

[CanonRay]

13. Saw it in Monticello, Oregon

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32. .

[2naSalit]

14. Spectacular!

I had a very different experience but an awesome one along the Yellowstone River. Thank you for sharing! These are the first pics I've seen since I got back to town!

Oh yeah.... OOOooh!! Awe!

2na

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33. Thanks, 2naSalit!

[Equinox Moon]

15. Wow! You know what you are doing.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing the eye candy!

[Adsos Letter]

34. More luck than anything.

Thanks for the compliment.

[LeftInTX]

16. Great pics!!!!

I like the first one because it shows how bright the sun actually is just before totality. Without a filter, it still looks round and it is still bright as heck!

We only had 60%. I have a cell phone and a $50 Nikon Cool Pix. I cut one of those paper eclipse glasses and stuck it over the cell phone lens. At first my pics weren't turning out. (Sun was still coming out disc shaped)
I then turned on the auto flash and got my crescent pics. (Doesn't make sense, but it worked)

I could never get a filter over my real camera, so I gave up on it.

[Adsos Letter]

35. Yes!

I had the eclipse glasses; put em on, sun was only a sliver, popped em off, sun still seemed normal (the sky was beginning to turn).

I simply forgot to order a filter. Thought about trying to shoot through my brother-in-law's welding helmet, but decided it would be too much hassle.

[Danmel]

17. We drove down from the New York metro region

To Columbia SC, where my husband has family. We have some nice pictures but I have yet to master posting pictures on this site.
We brought down our telescope with a solar filter. Everyone was lining up to look through our telescope. Our daughter has a little Fuji 📷 that uses instant film and she took pictures of a number of kids with the 🔭.

Totality was truly awe inspiring. The sky darkening, the quality of the light, which was so interesting. It looked like the sky looks with polarized lend-lease a bit dark and very high def.
At totality, hundreds of people cheered and took off their 👓. We saw Mars and Venus at 2:40 in the afternoon.
It was an incredible experience.
2024 will include Rochester NY, where my son went to college. We plan on driving up (quite a bit closer than Columbia and cooler too) and making a pilgramige to Wegmans!!!

[Adsos Letter]

36. We also saw planets and stars.

It really was awesome when it slid into totality. I wish I has remembered to bring a filter so that I could capture some images during the partial stages.

Let me know if you want help posting images; I use Flickr, and it is very simple.

[Delphinus]

18. These are amazing!

My husband and I drove a long way (to Tennessee) to be part of this for a very special reason - and I didn't take any pictures. Yours are wonderful. Thank you for taking them!

[Adsos Letter]

37. You are welcome.

I'm glad you enjoyed them.

[krispos42]

38. Very nice pics!

I'm pissed becauseI was in Carbondale, IL for it and this big puffy cloud moved in right before totality.

Those pics look SO COOL!!!

[Adsos Letter]

39. I wish you hadn't missed it!

My primary motivation to drive 10 hours to our viewing spot was because my wife really wanted to see it. It turned out to be a lot more interesting than I had expected.

[chaplain_M]

40. Nice photos! Love the tree silhouettes!

We viewed from Woodburn, OR. Shot a few frames through one side of my eclipse glasses, the blasted away during totality. The night before, I read the camera manual to learn how to set for multi-shot auto bracketing (something I never thought I'd use, and can't imagine using again!). The short exposures were very dramatic; the long ones were a little bit overexposed, BUT showed the planet Mercury!

[Adsos Letter]

41. Thank you. I would love to see your images!

This is a very friendly group, and we love it when people post their stuff. It is a lot of fun to see what others are doing, and posting images is pretty straightforward.

And by the way...welcome to DU, and the Photo Group!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. These are wonderful, my dear Adsos Letter!

Thanks for sharing, and for your story about the trip itself. Very cool reading!

[Adsos Letter]

43. Thanks, CaliforniaPeggy!

The eclipse was way cool; being part of the Great California Migration South crush, not so much.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. Yeah, I sure hear that! We have never been in such a traffic jam like that. GACK! n/t