On Apr 26, 2024, at 16:23, yeldahtron <keith_hadley@...> wrote:

Finally got around to looking at the shots I took of totality.? ?I didn't expect much because I was determined *not* to use my camera during the event; I wanted to ensure I saw it, so I was intentionally unprepared.? Still, I couldn't help grabbing my camera during totality.? ?I fired off a hand-held shot, chimped it and could see I had the wrong ISO setting and was not bracketing exposure.? I started fooling with my camera for several precious seconds of totality when I thought: WTF am I doing?? I slammed a -3 EV exposure compensation into the settings and took this final photo on a prayer.?

It doesn't quite capture the detail I saw, but it's not a bad memento.

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 4:59 p.m., Greg & Pauline Schneider

<gas@...> wrote:

Hey, for a shoot-from-the-hip shot, that looks damn good. ?It’s a great image of the corona and a prominence. ?Nothing wrong with that pic.

GAS

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On Apr 26, 2024, at 16:23, yeldahtron <keith_hadley@...> wrote:

Finally got around to looking at the shots I took of totality.? ?I didn't expect much because I was determined *not* to use my camera during the event; I wanted to ensure I saw it, so I was intentionally unprepared.? Still, I couldn't help grabbing my camera during totality.? ?I fired off a hand-held shot, chimped it and could see I had the wrong ISO setting and was not bracketing exposure.? I started fooling with my camera for several precious seconds of totality when I thought: WTF am I doing?? I slammed a -3 EV exposure compensation into the settings and took this final photo on a prayer.?

It doesn't quite capture the detail I saw, but it's not a bad memento.