Eclipse montage – wide angle time-lapse from Brisbane

[Dennis]

It’s been riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat reading, following the escapades and adventures of the Ice In Space eclipse chasers and I’m so pleased that everyone managed to come away with something, whether photographic record or ever-lasting memories.:)

On a gloriously clear morning, I set up at Luggage Point on the N shore of the mouth of the Brisbane River, some 5 or 6kms from work, mainly for the clear E horizon.

Taken with our Canon 7D and 17-40mm lens mounted on a (fixed) tripod. I used the Canon TC-80N3 remote timer set to take an image every 5 minutes. I’d left my run a little late so all I had was a piece of Baader visual solar film taped over the lens hood and this worked quite well.

The foreground was from a separate exposure taken as I was packing up after the event and I subsequently blended the 34 frames of the path of the Sun/Moon pairing in CS6. The gradients and flares were impossible to tame unfortunately.

What is not conveyed by this montage is the foul stench from the nearby sewerage treatment plant….:sadeyes:

Cheers

Dennis

[Derek Klepp]

I like it Dennis and definitely not tainted by the smell.

[Matt Wastell]

That is awesome! Great summary!

[gregbradley]

That turned out great.

Greg.

[OICURMT]

So I guess getting your image as "Scratch and Sniff" postcard is out of the question... :rofl:

[Davros]

I really like that, well done. I was hoping to try something similar but my shots were blown out from the DSLR. Glad to see it worked for you.

[astro_south]

Nice work Dennis

I gathered similar data down at Point Halloran (nicer smell too I bet). I just need to work out how to combine them all together with the tools I have - I am sure excited to see how it turns out. I have a just past sunrise shot for my base. I also shot at 2:30 intervals, but I think you have convinced me that I should skip every other one and go with the 5 min intervals :thumbsup: I suppose, once i work out how to do it I might as well try both intervals for interest sake.

For my sun shots I used a ND400 filter and set the camera to 1/8000 and f10. I used the same lens as you (though on a full frame - so I will need some cropping to see any detail) :)

[SkyViking]

That looks great Dennis, well done. I managed a few snaps here in Auckland, but haven't yet had time to go though them.

[Deeno]

That worked really well!
Nice going

[Larryp]

Really neat!-good work.:thumbsup:

[jakob]

Well done!
I like your result.
:thumbsup:

[niko]

looks great!

[Dennis]

Thank you Derek, Matt, Greg, OIC, Mick, Rolf, Deeno, Laurie, Jakob and Niko – I appreciate your nice comments.:)

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Hi Andrew

Thanks! You are welcome to drop by over the weekend and we can punch your files through Photoshop CS6.

I opened all the Sun only shots as Layers and then set all but the last Layer to “Lighter” which magically generated the path of the partial eclipse. I then flattened the Layers and copied the Layer to the scenic shot and again set it to “Lighter” and voila – the magic of Photoshop Layers worked!:)

The only caveat is that I have a 4 or 5 year old Win XP Pro PC which often runs out of memory with CS6 and can be a tad slow, but it does get there in the end with a bit of coaxing.:)
Cheers

Dennis

[Paul Haese]

Nice lookin montage Dennis. This gives a sense of the occassion and shows what people could see from mainland capital cities.

[multiweb]

That's a very cool montage Dennis. Nicely done. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Very nice work, Dennis, and you deserve extra points for suffering for your art :thumbsup:

[astro_south]

Thanks for that spectacular offer Dennis, but I actually achieved what I wanted using 'Startrails'. I will post up the results sometime tonight.

[cometcatcher]

That looks great and I can't smell a thing! ;)

[StephenM]

Great looking montage Dennis! Looks like the weather was great in Brisbane.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Dennis]

Thank you Paul, Marc, Rick, Andrew, Kevin & Stephen, I appreciate your nice words.:)

At our local "totality” (80%), it was quite eerie as the temperature had definitely been slowly but noticeably dropping and the shore based birds became more active and flew away, in a flock, perhaps to their roost, although this part of the river mouth is tidal and the tide may simply have pushed them off the mudflats.:shrug:

The light was quite strange, not really twilight in nature, more of a spooky and surreal quality to it. I guess the full total eclipse chasers felt this even more so.:)

Cheers

Dennis