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| 8:20 pm. Setting sun - Sony Cybershot DSC H300 no filter |
I live in
Independence, Oregon, U.S.A. We are dead center in the line of
totality for the full solar eclipse on 21st August, 2017.
This is both good and bad. Good is that I don’t have to leave home
to see it. Bad is that we will be inundated with masses of people
coming from everywhere else. Oregon is expecting over 1 million
visitors. This is a potential nightmare. Travel will be impossible
and most of us locals plan to hunker down and weather through it.
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| 8:20 pm. Sunset through a glass ball w/ Canon Rebel T5 | |
And when it comes…
I will be ready!
I put in for the day
off from work (applied months ago) and ordered special filters
online. I got a B+W 100E ND (neutral density) 3.0 1000X Coated filter
for my Canon Rebel EOS T5. I ordered it from B&H Photo. I
have ordered items from them before and they are reputable with
quality product. I also bought a sheet of filter film from Amazon to
make my own filters for my Sony Cybershot or any other camera I want
to use.
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| 8:11 pm Canon Rebel T5 w/ND filter |
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| 8:12 pm Canon Rebel T5 w/ND filter not sure if white specks are stars or dust. |
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| 8:12 pm Canon Rebel T5 w/ND filter red spot is light of sun bouncing inside lens |
Yesterday, I got out
the filter and looking through it, I could see more than I thought I
should be able to. I was afraid I had ordered the wrong one. This is
bad because it is too late to get another. Supplies are non-existent
and/or astronomical in price.
Today, I put it on
my camera to try it out. Good news! It works just fine. I plan to
practice with it several times in the next couple weeks so to be
ready for the big event.
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| 8:13 pm Canon Rebel T5 w/ND filter This time looks yellow |
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| 8:16 pm Canon Rebel T5 w/ND filter I looked behind me and the wonderful red was reflecting in the window on the house behind me. |
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Right now, the
Willamette Valley (and much of the Pacific Northwest) is full of
smoke from wildfires in Oregon, Montana, and has drifted from as far
away as Canada.
This makes for some
spectacular sunrises and sunsets. It even makes the moon more
beautiful than she already is.
Today’s post is of
my images I took today of the setting sun. Some with the filter…
some without. See the image captions for details.
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| 8:23 pm Canon Rebel T5 polarizing filter (I keep on lens standard) |
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| 8:24 pm Canon Rebel T5 polarizing filter |
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| 8:24 pm Canon Rebel T5 polarizing filter If you look closely, there is a faint streak of red. It is the last light of the setting sun. |
And one last image... the moon was watching from behind the trees...
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| 8:29 pm Canon Rebel T5 polarizing filter |
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