The Cleburne Sunflower - a photo on Flickriver

            This is a composite/HDR photo of the Sun corona during the Total Solar Eclipse as seen in the Cleburne, TX, USA on 8th April 2024. I've never heard of the city, until the weather forecasts started to converge on the eclipse morning and exposing a clear sky patch within the path of the totality. We traveled at early morning, and were sad to find out that the cloud cover was 100%. It was not before the 11am when the situation started to improve, and it was a final call to move. Glad, we didn't move at all and stayed.

For me and my brother it was the very first totality in our lives, we've seen the eclipse o 1999, which in Poland was a partial. Looking at numerous resources on how to shot the totality I wanted to try to get the corona image, as it was within the reach of my gear. 

I used following exposures: 1/2000, 1/800, 1/640, 1/400, 1/320, 1/250, 1/200, 1/100, 1/80, 1/50, 1/25, 1/8 and 1/4 contributing at different levels to the final image. Stacked and processed with Pixelmator Pro. Lens was 70-200mm F2.8 at F4 and ISO100, attached to D850, roughly tracked with SkyAdventurer Pro. Now I know, that I should have used F5.6 or even F6.3 aperture (well, still having bracketed shots of all range, plenty frames to choose from), and should have attached the TC2.0... but I'm gonna improve this over the next eclipses to come! I decided not to change anything during the totality, and enjoy those 3 minutes, clicking blindly on a remote in my hand :D

Taken on: April 8, 2024

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/4.0, 1/5000 sec, 200mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Lens:	70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	1/5000 sec
Focal Length:	200mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-4/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Pixelmator Pro 3.4.1
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