Total Eclipse from 1600m Altitude After years of watching…
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Total Eclipse from 1600m Altitude
After years of watching partial solar eclipses, I was finally able to witness a total eclipse from Nothern Spain last week. The forecast was looking a bit tricky- the previous few days of perfect weather was due to end, with cloud developing along the coast and pushing inland. I headed inland and drove up a steep winding road to the summit of Angliru at 1600m, arriving in the early afternoon to get ahead of the anticipated eclipse traffic. As the car park filled up and I scouted compositions, the sky remained clear and as the sun got lower in the sky, I saw the spectacular 1 minute and 49 seconds of solar eclipse.
One thing I've learned from shooting one-off events like this is that often my plan will change when I arrive at the site to shoot the image, and sure enough once I saw the stunning foreground and the distant cloud inversion, I knew I needed to shoot wider than my 480mm solar rig. So just before totality, I switched to my 70-180mm lens and shot this composition at 70mm: mountains, clouds, valley, the eclipse, and a beautiful sky, all in one image.
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After years of watching partial solar eclipses, I was finally able to witness a total eclipse from Nothern Spain last week. The forecast was looking a bit tricky- the previous few days of perfect weather was due to end, with cloud developing along the coast and pushing inland. I headed inland and drove up a steep winding road to the summit of Angliru at 1600m, arriving in the early afternoon to get ahead of the anticipated eclipse traffic. As the car park filled up and I scouted compositions, the sky remained clear and as the sun got lower in the sky, I saw the spectacular 1 minute and 49 seconds of solar eclipse.
One thing I've learned from shooting one-off events like this is that often my plan will change when I arrive at the site to shoot the image, and sure enough once I saw the stunning foreground and the distant cloud inversion, I knew I needed to shoot wider than my 480mm solar rig. So just before totality, I switched to my 70-180mm lens and shot this composition at 70mm: mountains, clouds, valley, the eclipse, and a beautiful sky, all in one image.
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