Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » The Eclipse from Kyoto

by Jeffrey Friedl Mon, May 21st, 2012 8:47am JST (11 years ago)

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Third Contact as seen in Kyoto, Japan using a filter that cuts 99,999 / 100,000 of the light -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 + 1.4X TC @ 420mm cropped — ¹/1600 sec, f/11, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Third Contact
as seen in Kyoto, Japan
using a filter that cuts ^99,999/_100,000 of the light

$Starry Night? exaggerated refractions in the clouds using a filter that cuts 3,199 / 3,200 of the light -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/$
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm cropped — ¹/250 sec, f/6.3, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Starry Night?
exaggerated refractions in the clouds
using a filter that cuts ^3,199/_3,200 of the light

We had a nice view of the annular ('ring-shaped') eclipse from Kyoto this morning. We are on the edge of the shadow's path, so the view for us was of the moon skirting the edge of the sun. We had only 100 seconds of ring. (Folks in Tokyo got five minutes.) I took a bunch of pictures, but don't know whether anything came out. Will look through them later. At the moment (an hour later), the sun still has a small bite out of it, getting smaller by the minute.

Continued here...

May	21st,	2012	A Few More Eclipse Photos from Kyoto
June	15th,	2012	A Visit to Suntory's Kyoto Beer Brewery
January	3rd,	2015	Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow

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Check your ratio on that top image 😉

Yes, the filter blocks 10x more light than actually exists. 🙂 “999,999” corrected to “99,999”, thanks. —Jeffrey

— comment by sebastien benoit on May 21st, 2012 at 9:18am JST (11 years ago) — comment permalink

I really love the second picture!!! It’s simply stunning! For what part of the world, I’m from Québec, Canada. Have a wonderful day!

— comment by Pesc on May 21st, 2012 at 9:39am JST (11 years ago) — comment permalink

That last one is my favorite of your eclipse photos. Very well done, Jeffrey.

— comment by nils on May 21st, 2012 at 10:27pm JST (11 years ago) — comment permalink