I’ve never seen a solar eclipse photo that portrays the actual magnitude of the event. It’s the exact opposite of photographing the milky way. Milky way photos alway enhance what the naked eye can see.
No pictures come close to an eclipse.
The moon is so black. The sky is neon purple. The sun’s corona looks like electricity fighting the to escape a black hole. And it’s HUGE in the sky. You can’t take your eyes off of it. The pics with black sky and the corona exploding around the moon are impressive, but this is not what your eye sees.
1.) This picture is the closest I’ve captured what I remember seeing with my bare eyes. (300mm 1/320 f/5.6 iso 5000)
2.) The second is what it feels like to see an eclipse - the chaos of the moment. It’s daylight minutes before totality. Seconds before totality it’s an eerie and unsettling dusk with full shadows. Then the sun is swallowed and it’s night in the space of a snap. This eclipse I didn’t use a tripod. I didn’t have any hope our cloud cover would break. But it did, and I flailed settings back and forth to capture what I could. (70mm 4/5 f/10 iso100)
3.) This is the most standard eclipse shot. The solar event could be clearly seen with your naked eye. (300mm 1/2000 f/11 iso 6400).
4.) The lead up through the clouds. They say not to point your camera at the sun before totality, but with the clouds providing cover, I risked it. (300mm 1/100 f/32 iso 100).
5.) I wish I did this on purpose. I just was flailing settings and got something cool. (300m 2.5 seconds f/32 iso 100) #eclipse #eclectic_shotz
Wk 3: Black and white @52frames
Kind of a cop out this week with trees in consecutive weeks. The dull winter overcast sky this weekend made this an easy get - everything looks black and white this weekend. #52frames_blackandwhite
Wk 2: A new technique @52frames
Intentional Camera Movement - let’s slow down the shutter, move to see what happens. After some trial and error, I arrived at a zoom out movement at 1/6. The trick I found was to start rotating the zoom before releasing the shutter; just keep zooming out slow and steady. These are trees in my front yard during golden hour. The sunlight through the trees blurs like a star field, or it feels like you fell out of the tree. Either way it’s an interesting effect. #52frames_anewtechnique #abstract
Dude came in hot on a phone call and flipped out...I didn’t realize it was a Taken type situation. I still don’t know this guy, a def didn’t know he had a daughter till he started threatening me in her name. Wowzas. I hope he’s cool today. He’s still not gonna get a session @thebarronstudios - but that sample does go pretty hard. And I do love my @teenageengineering PO33 #recordingstudio
52frames_selfportrait - 2023 was a very difficult year. Part of making 2024 better is a focus on routine creations. 52 frames is an exercise in creating. Every week a new topic. Every week you compose one photograph. The “every week” is the tough part. The goal isn’t a masterpiece. It’s the repetition. I last participated with 52 frames in 2019 and really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to stretching these creative muscles and dusting off the old camera. And I’m looking forward to a better 2024. #52frames_selfportrait
A note my 93 yr old Nana made me write, big so she can read it, and remember who she’s rooting for at the Grammys. @tobenwigwe@recordingacademy
I’m so pumped to hear “AND THE NOMINEES ARE” followed by a song the Barron Studios team of engineers heard first, and then the camera pans over to an artist we’ve been recording since before 2015 over YouTube beats.
@barronstudios has been blessed to be the recording/mixing/mastering home of the musical part of Tobe’s vision.
Congrats Tobe!
Congrats to the entire team you’ve assembled. Good luck tomorrow. We know this is just the start. This is not even peak Nwigwe.
Carlo, from @teenageengineering choir, serenaded our dogs before dinner time this evening. I think Apollo (little dog) and Kolaches (big dog) really appreciated it. Early Xmas present from Ashley. It’s ridiculous. I can’t wait to hook the OP-Z up to him.
