How My Eclipse Went & A Baily's Beads Tutorial [Advanced]
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- I share my experience chasing and witnessing the April 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. I then share a tutorial on making a composite image of the different stages of the 'Baily's Beads' phenomenon at C2/C3. This tutorial is semi-advanced and is done completely with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop using lots of layers and layer masks.
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Contents
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0:00 Where am I going? TX? VT?
1:12 SNOW!!?
2:31 The Farm
3:16 Shadow Bands
3:58 Totality!
5:15 My Photography Setups
7:06 TUTORIAL STARTS HERE
10:12 Adobe Camera Raw
18:44 Organizing the 21 layers
27:00 My Manual 'HDR' Process
42:10 Dealing with the Reflection
43:53 Final Touch-ups
49:40 Patreon / End Credits
Great video as always. I am going to join your Patreon members to further support your great work.
I was also going to Dallas from Boston and like you looking at the weather I changed plans and looking north, Newport, VT looked like a good place to be. I ended up visiting on the Saturday before and met the good people at Kingdom Brewing who set me up in their field for Monday and I enjoyed photographing the eclipse from there. Look forward to learning more from you on ways to process the ~250 raw files. Thanks for all you do Nico!
This is an excellent resource, and it's given me multiple ideas of what to do with my eclipse photos at only the halfway mark.
So glad it was helpful! Thanks for the donation - much appreciated. Cheers, Nico
Seeing that specific solar prominence with the naked eye was something I was not expecting at all. I thought that was something only cameras were able to pick up but that thing was massive when it popped out on the second half of totality!
I agree, we were all yelling "look at the prominences"! We saw two, then as the moon shifted, we saw the other two. It was absolutely nuts.
Yeah that was a mind blowing experience. I think it helped that this eclipse was so high up in the sky.
I agree .. i saw it and was like wait what .. pulled out binoculars to see it better "in person"
Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thanks so much for the donation- I appreciate it!! Cheers, Nico
Great stuff Nico! Thanks for your dedication to the tutorial. This 2024 eclipse was my first "intentional" eclipse and even as a newbie, got some great shots. You "practice your routine" videos certainly guided me along the way in the 2 weeks prior to the event. I had a good script as well as the Solar Eclipse Timer app. We were in Ohio with some great weather and a great 4 minute totality.
Been waiting for your next eclipse processing video, and can't tell you how helpful this is. Many thanks!!
Straightforward (in hindsight!), but essential tutorial. Thank you!
Glad to hear! Thanks for the donation - very much appreciated. Cheers, Nico
Great series of shots! We had only a partial solar eclipse here but still, it was a fun and unique experience to photograph. Thanks to one of your tips posted earlier made aligning my camera with the Sun so much easier using the downspout clip purchased from Home Depot. Hope one day you will show how to properly align the Nomad Star tracker without Polaris.
This is amazing Nico, thank you
Great job catching the beads! I only have a couple of shots of beads of it because I forgot to pull my filter at the beginning on time because I got distracted by the eclipse!
In 2017, I got so distracted by the eclipse, I forgot to do LOTS of things. This time I was a little bit better, I remembered to look through my binoculars, which was really cool.
Turned out really cool! Well done bro 👍👍
Crazy to see snow there--i was way down "south" in burlington, vt and it was like springtime...Thanks for the vid!
Just when I thought I was done processing my data! 😄 Thanks for this - I learn something new and valuable about Photoshop every time I watch your processing tutorials!
I will be using this very soon! I was able to get approximately 300 images during TSE during 3:51 in southern Indiana. Like you said, being there is more better than watching it on videos, but the images still mean something to those who wanted to be there but couldn't. I've been showing mine to friends at home in the 99% zone and they love them. Your prep videos were very helpful!
I was in downtown Dallas and things cleared up about 25min prior to totality..that southern prominence was dazzling and looked like a brilliant ruby. Shadow bands on the pavement were obvious just prior to C2 and after C3. An amazing experience, my first total solar eclipse!❤😂
Excellent video and I can't thank you enough for this! I went to Indiana and also shot with the R5 and RF 800 F/11. my pictures pretty much look exactly like yours, same big green blob and everything so I think it is the lens or it could be light scattered from the high clouds but I think it's probably more from the lens. anyway, this tutorial is super helpful and very specific to me, I'm glad you also had clear skies and success, definitely the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed!
I was almost going to change batteries while I was shooting but I'm glad I didn't because if you shut The camera off it resets the focus, one of the downfalls of focus by wire I suppose.
My rf 100-500 kept losing focus after 30-60 seconds so my diamond ring and prominence photos are slightly out of focus. Early during the eclipse I would shut my r5 off between photos and would refocus after turning it on. Maybe that was an issue? I had it on manual everything including focus and had the zoom ring tightened. Got decent shots but not as sharp as I hoped. Appreciate advice.
great to see you again Nico, lovely video. It was clouded out here in Buffalo mostly but we had some spaces in the clouds and right before totality clouds cleared a little it was beautiful.
excellent !!
thanks for the tutorial. I've used your videos to help me prepare for this event. Just a idea/tip by the way for cleaning up the parts of the corona the "bled" into the disks of previous parts of the sequence ... rather than paint with a brush couldn't you just select the entire disc area of the impacted part and then fill that selection on the mask of the encroaching corona? Unless you intentionally wanted to retain some corona crossover
Really helpful video!
Great video!! How much time span was there between each shot?
I had my SeeStar but when I set up the clouds were so dense I focused on the still frame camera and lens…Canon T7i full spectrum with UV/IR cut clop-in, and NIkkor 180 ED/AIS with 201 2X telextender. I really wanted to capture the video of the photosphere like you did!🎉
Awesome Nico! Very informative and outstanding photos. I was not too far from you in Derby Line, Vermont. I got to ask you why is that large prominence at the 8:30 position instead of near the bottom, like 6:30 position of a clock? Was your camera tilted?
Rotated yes, because it was on an equatorial tracker and I had no control over rotation the way I mounted it
@@NebulaPhotos thank you for responding. I learned something new today. Very interesting.
@@NebulaPhotosI stopped about 21 minutes into your video and asked you that question. As I am continuing to watch now, you answered my question around the 23:30 mark. Silly me! Lol😂 I want to get a tracker someday to take to either the 2026 and/or 2027 eclipses. Thanks again Nico!
Wow. We weren't too far from one another. We went to Burlington VT. I decided last minute to use my 500mm RF lens swapping out an 800mm F11. I did not have a tracker, which made my decision for the 500mm a safe one for the first eclipse I was going to capture. Next time I may go for my 800mm at F11 or f16 for Bailey's beads. Cool to see the results of the 800mm
I spent the day in the parking lot of a Love's truck stop outside Upper Sandusky, Ohio - about an eighth of a mile away from dead-center of the Path of Totality, and an easy 3-hour drive from my home in Michigan (where they *only* got 96% of the Big Show). There were barely a dozen of us there to see the eclipse, and conditions were about 9-out-of-10 - 70-ish degrees, low humidity (always a pleasure in the Great Lakes Basin), and a mostly clear sky with just a thin, wispy layer of high-altitude cirrus & cirrostratus clouds that the Sun burned through as if they weren't there. We got the full four minutes, and I got around 70-80 CR2 shots that stacked together amazingly well (Canon 5DmkII, Canon 300mm f/4-5.6 lens, el-cheapo mylar solar filter from B&H which, as it turns out, was made from Thousand Oaks' film). I made it a point to get to the Path this time, as this will most likely be the last total eclipse I'll be alive for... Or at least, the last one I'll be able to travel to see, at any rate.
The old saying is correct; that last 1% between 99% coverage and Totality makes all the difference in the Universe. It was an amazing experience; mere nerds can never express...
Awesome video, will you be doing one on the diamond ring?
Amazing video, Nico! I have a quick question for you (or anyone who can help). My beads and prominences weren't focused on my best rig, but I've enhanced them on Topaz Sharpen for some definition. Would it work if I put the images through Topaz to remove the blurriness and process them using your tutorial? I am just not sure if that will work overall.
Nice.
Yeey🎉Finally👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Really nice edit.. are you going to do an indepth stacked corona as well?
I’m going to try, but not sure when. I tried to get it done for this one and wasn’t fully happy with my method/result. So I’ll keep tinkering
Thanks this is great! Looking forward to hearing about the other rigs as well. So is the RF 800 a good choice for a total eclipse? Or is there something else you would recommend?
There are many good choices. It depends on what else you will be using. I'd only suggest the RF 800 if you are using a star tracker and full frame camera. The green reflection artifacts were a little annoying, but considering how compact and light the RF 800 is, I'd definitely consider using it again if traveling light.
Very nice! Did you take video of specific phases of the eclipse?
I did with the Seestar and DWARF, but somewhat haphazardly as I was juggling lots of things. I also had that wide video I showed going for the whole thing.
I’d like to try motion and feature amplification on my cell phone videos to enhance shadow bands!
I got lucky from where I set my camera up that I could see the shadow bands in my video. I had to process it a lot to barely bring it out and I didn't hold the camera long enough on it as I wanted to capture the totality transition but it is there. ua-cam.com/video/BU_lTmixudk/v-deo.html
Awesome! Thanks for sharing the clip
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I wonder how many eclipse videos have Dr Telepun's voice in them?
For the manual HDR (masking) process, my inclination would have been to put the layers in opposite order so that the sun/beads are on top, then proms, then corona. That way if the color selection process for the corona or proms selects any of the bead portion, it would just get covered by the bead layer above it. And if any portion of the proms gets selected by the corona, it would get covered by being above.
Is my intuition wrong and this would actually make it more difficult? Perhaps there would be dark lines at the edges? I guess I'll have to experiment.
Please experiment and report back. In my experimentation having corona on top for blending creates the most natural effect. But like anything in Photoshop, there are many ways to go about it.
@@NebulaPhotos I trust that you are right. I'm pretty inexperienced with photoshop and my "intuition" is often wrong. I will definitely experiment though and see what it's like.
Thanks for this great tutorial! I was in Maine for the eclipse. Weather was unbelievable! I laughed when you asked if the number of set-ups you had was overkill. I had 2 imaging rigs, tripod mounted binoculars, and an H-alpha visual set-up. My family thought I was crazy; I can only imagine what they'd think if I had more :)
Nico are you going to review the Askar 71 Flat Field?
Perhaps. I’ll look into it
Hi Nico. Really helpful video - thanks! I've tried using your method but have a problem with the ACR part. After making the changes to exposure etc, when I click 'Done' it saves the XMP files. BUT, when I open the raw file in Photoshop from the Photoshop-Open command it opens the original un-modified file and doesn't apply the XMP changes. Anyone any ideas why? To apply the changes, I have to click 'Open' in ACR which opens the file in Photoshop with the changes. I can work around this, but it doesn't work the way it seems to on your machine. I'm using the latest version of PS and Windows. Any help appreciated
I don't think I ever used the File->Open... command. I was using File->Scripts...->Load Files into Stack... after editing the Raw files in ACR. Maybe that's the difference? If not, as you found, the workaround would be just to open them all in ACR, selecting all, and clicking Open. Each will open in it's own PS Document so it's a bit more copy-pasting that way.
Yes sorry I should've been clearer. I get the same result using File>scripts. On this basis I'm not really sure what the 'done' does, as it doesn't seem to apply changes unless I use the ACR 'Open' method. Very odd.
But yes. The work around works, it's just more work.
Thanks for your reply though, appreciated. Keep making your grest content!
Can you not just delete the XMP files to reset all settings for the selected images after saving the changes to your stack PSD file?
Yes, you can. The reason I didn't show that is I'm always worried about someone accidentally deleting the RAW files. :)
@@NebulaPhotos okay, that makes sense. I'm not familiar with PS yet (coming from Affinity Photo but playing around with the Adobe stuff as I have a running subscription for LRTimelapse anyway.. But that's why I asked. Thanks for the quick reply.
Maybe that green was from high thin clouds
That’s a good theory. I can see in the video and my widefield results that they were all around
I want to go to southern Spain in 2027.
second lol
Could you talk a bit more about animal behavior. Dis you make any specific observations?
Other than the cows moving right before and after totality, I also saw a dog on the farm stand motionless in the field staring into the distance for about 15 minutes after totality. I was trying to record birdsong, but I think it was a little too early in the year for that.