We travelled with a small group to the United States to photograph the total solar eclipse on the 8th of April in 2024. I captured a photo of the so called “diamond ring effect” which happens right before and right after totality, where the sun barely peeks out from behind the sun, making the eclipsed sun look like a diamond ring. The image was taken with a Canon EOS R6, a Canon 2x extender, and an EF 300/4L lens.

We travelled with a small group to the United States to photograph the total solar eclipse on the 8th of April in 2024. I captured a high dynamic range (HDR) view of the corona surrounding the sun during the eclipse. The image is a stack of a single HDR bracket, consisting of 7 exposures of different lengths. I have several more to process. My plan is to combine all the separate HDR brackets taken during totality into one compose image, so I could pull more detail out of it, but that is still a work-in-progress.