SUNSETS and SUNRISES!!!

Kettle Cove, Maine
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Partial solar eclipse on October 23, 2014. In my area it started just before sunset, and the sun set during the eclipse. Folks out west had more eclipse, but this was just grand as it was! Clouds on the horizon obscured the end of it....

First image is the minimum EV I can get from my D7000! I was using my 70-300 ED VR lens, ISO 100, 1/8000 at f:40. The blotches in the sun are not clouds on the horizon, they are sunspots. I know because a fellow member of my local club was cheating, used a telescope with solar filters.... Anyway, I was amazed, because I PHOTOGRAPHED SUNSPOTS WITH AN UNFILTERED HANDHELD dSLR!!!!!! :boogie:

BTW, I wasn't looking into the viewfinder, but holding the camera up and kind of aiming. ish. I'd peek and make sure the Bright Thing was in the frame and trip the shutter.




Second image is set as a regular sunset pic, although the eclipse is still visible if you know it's there. Rather noisy because I was still underexposed, and boosted it in post.....:angry:

 
another sunrise over DC. I used my pro cell phone to get the superior image

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