I was going to photograph the Eclipse but there is not much to see, because of the fecking Irish weather

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/skygazers-await-rare-solar-eclipse-1.2146050

Its always the same here, 200 rain days in a year. Complete overcast now. Meh !

not much better here

Here's my result. LOL

Here in Poland it's only 73% and weather is... too good    It's full sunny day, no clouds at all! All I get (absolutely with using safety as filter ND big stopper) is white half sun on black background...
At this time I appreciate my luck in 2011 when got this: link
In last days it's my bestseller on SS 

Quote from: Ariene on March 20, 2015, 09:31
Here in Poland it's only 73% and weather is... too good    It's full sunny day, no clouds at all! All I get (absolutely with using safety as filter ND big stopper) is white half sun on black background...
At this time I appreciate my luck in 2011 when got this: link
In last days it's my bestseller on SS 

You're lucky. In Gdansk it is almost like in Ireland . Yep, a bit darker than on a usual cloudy day but that's all.

Quote from: Ariene on March 20, 2015, 09:31
Here in Poland it's only 73% and weather is... too good    It's full sunny day, no clouds at all! All I get (absolutely with using safety as filter ND big stopper) is white half sun on black background...
At this time I appreciate my luck in 2011 when got this: link
In last days it's my bestseller on SS 

great image

Italy: here same....ND big stopper white sun, black background....tooo bad.... should have been before in the morning....maybe in iceland they have something better

P.S. there is also an eclypse in my daily sales ahhahaha

Belgium. The sky is not transparent

Quote from: mojaric on March 20, 2015, 10:13
P.S. there is also an eclypse in my daily sales ahhahaha

Show it (image), not only talking!  Let's say, I don't believe you


Ron, thank you

Here, Ukraine, like in Poland, clear sky but at the time of the eclipse I was running and I have seen nothing.

Nice photo Ariene!

It was also very cloudy here in Varna, Bulgaria
I've prepared ND1000 filter for nothing.

I managed to get a little peek at the eclipse just before it ended

Ron, clean up the spots!   

I know,   its a quick render of a snapshot. Not planning to do anything with it.


And Of course the weather clears up AFTER the eclipse is over !!!

Quote from: Semmick Photo on March 20, 2015, 10:54
And Of course the weather clears up AFTER the eclipse is over !!!

Life!

I don't even bother postprocessing mine shots from today. But it brought me some ideas for interesting session with using photos taken today 

I managed to see it OK in Shropshire - England. Took some video's and timelapse. It went a strange bluey shadow colour although it was sunny. Reminded me of the eclipse in 1999 or whenever it was. I so want to see a 100% eclipse at some point.

Excuse the dust marks as this was a secondary camera just for fun.

Catalogue of errors for me this morning. Firstly I failed to scout a location properly and ended up in the woods with no real useful silhouette to shoot the eclipse against.

Then I set the ISO really high to shoot this image hand held with a long lens on the way:



And of course, forgot to reset it afterwards, making everything super noisy and more or less useless. Pah. My pathetic best effort:



If the only difference nowadays between amateur and professional photographers is that professional are supposed to get it right every time, then I well and truly failed that test this morning.

Voyager, all photogs I know forget to change ISO (me too). They (we) change everything in camera, but not ISO  It doesn't matter if you are young amatour or 70+ y.o. experienced pro...
Btw, very nice images you did, love it! (I'm not sure if this is good form to say: do image or only take photo?).

Quote from: Ariene on March 20, 2015, 09:31
Here in Poland it's only 73% and weather is... too good    It's full sunny day, no clouds at all! All I get (absolutely with using safety as filter ND big stopper) is white half sun on black background...
At this time I appreciate my luck in 2011 when got this: link
In last days it's my bestseller on SS 

Nice. What did you use to shoot that?

Quote from: fotoVoyager on March 20, 2015, 12:15
Catalogue of errors for me this morning. Firstly I failed to scout a location properly and ended up in the woods with no real useful silhouette to shoot the eclipse against.

Then I set the ISO really high to shoot this image hand held with a long lens on the way:



And of course, forgot to reset it afterwards, making everything super noisy and more or less useless. Pah. My pathetic best effort:



If the only difference nowadays between amateur and professional photographers is that professional are supposed to get it right every time, then I well and truly failed that test this morning.

Still, very nice.

Quote from: Mantis on March 20, 2015, 14:31
Nice. What did you use to shoot that?

Thanks The funniest thing is... that I didn't use anything! It was young photographer luck (I often miss it these days), that's it! I remember weather was not good, clouds are growing very fast when the Moment was closer... I had a lot of luck then, clouds gave me natural soft diffuser, right in the perfect moment, I catched focus on sun without watching through the viewer to not hurt my eyes, and praying to not damage camera with so much light straight into it So no filters and 100% of luck...

Quote from: Ariene on March 20, 2015, 14:43

Quote from: Mantis on March 20, 2015, 14:31
Nice. What did you use to shoot that?

Thanks The funniest thing is... that I didn't use anything! It was young photographer luck (I often miss it these days), that's it! I remember weather was not good, clouds are growing very fast when the Moment was closer... I had a lot of luck then, clouds gave me natural soft diffuser, right in the perfect moment, I catched focus on sun without watching through the viewer to not hurt my eyes, and praying to not damage camera with so much light straight into it So no filters and 100% of luck...

A little luck NEVER hurts.

Ireland is probably the only country you could look straight at it - where I was, just enough cloud to take away the brightness but still see the whole thing.

Total cloud cover in the shires - although I did notice it got colder and darker and the birds stopped singing....
.....I might have imagined that last bit or seen it in a movie though.

Quote from: Ariene on March 20, 2015, 10:21

Show it (image), not only talking!  Let's say, I don't believe you

here it is