Introduction

Today, rather than shooting through AR/MR headsets, I pointed my camera skyward toward the Solar Eclipse. They were forecasting a lot of cloud cover in the Dallas area, and it looked bad less than two hours before the eclipse was to start. But then, as the eclipse neared, the clouds mostly parted so I could get some good pictures between the times when clouds moved by.

But the sun was still behind a cloud as it was about time for the total eclipse. Fortunately, a few moments into the totality, the clouds moved out of the way.

All the images were cropped without any scaling. To see them in full size, you can click on any image.

During the eclipse, I took pictures between the times when the clouds were blocking the view. At one point, not long after totality, there was a fairly dark low cloud and some light wispy clouds. They blocked enough sunlight that I could take pictures without the sun filter, yet I could still see the eclipse. The clouds had an interesting effect. It looked like a shot of a crescent moon through the clouds.

Photography Info

For the camera people in the audience, the pictures were taken with a Canon R5 (45MP) camera with an RF 100-500mm lens at 500mm with a 1.4x teleconverter (netting 700mm). That is about half what it would take to get the full sun and corona to fill the frame, so all the pictures below are cropped (except for the last picture with the cloud cover). Most of the pictures were shot on a tripod with a “geared head” (the same one I use to line up the camera to shoot through AR and MR headset), so once I had the sun lined up in the camera’s LCD display, I only had to turn a couple of knobs occasionally. Except during totality and a few shots when the clouds were blocking, I used a sun filter (Silver-black polymer). All shots were taken with exposure bracketing (3 shots at different exposures).