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Solar Eclipse 2012 (Partial) with homemade pinhole camera + HDR
This is one of several shots that I took of the Solar Eclipse today (only partial in my area w/ partial cloud cover as well) -- I think it's my favorite of the group. It was taken using a homemade pinhole viewer that I threw together with LOTS of rubber bands, an old FD lens, an old extender for the old FD lens, three tripods, bubble wrap, 2 manilla folders, a paper towel, the tripod collar hijacked from my 100-400 lens, some very old & dirty & scratched filters, a clipboard--what am I forgetting? (seriously, I used all that crap to make the camera--no joke)
I combined three shots into an HDR image (the 'photographic paper'--a sheet of plain white copy paper--was pretty grainy and dull. The HDR helped.)
Hopefully this is the correct forum for this type of image/gear??
And, yes, it's weird, but I am much more pleased with the result than I thought I'd be. I can post the rest if anyone is interested.
Last edited by Celeste Painter; 05-20-2012 at 10:21 PM.
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Celeste, wow! Congratulations on being so innovative. I like the reddish glow and the curves from the pinhole. Good work
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Celeste, Welcome to OOTB. Very cool effect and I applaud your camera making! Nice job. I would love more info on how you get the photo onto paper and actually construct the camera ( you can include details in this post if you would like to share). AND YES, I would love to see more images. I can't wait till your next post!
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I'm impressed with what you did to put the camera together in addition to the image you created. The clouds turned out to be a great asset, and I also like the blue sweeps on the right.
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Very cool eclipse image, Celeste, and way take advantage of the opportunity and put something together on the fly like that. Look forward to seeing more.
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Hi Celeste and welcome! This is very impressive and i would love to see more of your work!
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Thanks everyone. I tried to post another image but I can't -- perhaps it's my membership (or lack thereof).
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Dennis Bishop
and I also like the blue sweeps on the right.
The blue on the right is actually the mount from the FD extender. You can see the grooves on the dial if you look closely. It's a bit of a giveaway of how I built the system. The idea for the setup came from this: http://spaceweather.com/sunspots/doityourself.html I added a collar around the lens to block light, and a couple of tripods so I wouldn't have to hold four things at one time while focusing, tracking, shooting (all while not looking at the sun). Just imagine a piece of copy paper attached to a clipboard as the film plane from a regular camera and using whatever digital camera you have on hand to grab that image.
btw: funny side story. My little sister told me that in Phoenix, a television news personality advised: "Don't look directly at the sun. The only way you can safely view the eclipse is through a telescope." - got a bit of a laugh out of that. Hopefully no one took the advice and ended up with deep-fried retina.
