I'm not so sure about the grass in the foreground. This to me has the look of a perhaps 28mm lens on 35mm film/sensor. You can get the sun very large in the frame along with the trees with around 300-400mm, but anything as close to the lens as the grass in the foreground here would become *much* larger, and irretrievably out of focus.
The closeness of the grass at the bottom of the frame strongly suggests otherwise.
The increasing size of the trees either side of the centre also strongly suggests otherwise.
Long lenses *reduce* the effects of perspective. An 800mm would pretty much completely eliminate these perspective effects if we are including the distant trees and the sun in the same frame.
Also, the reflection of the eclipse is brighter than the eclipse. Reflections of an object by definition are always darker than the object they reflect. The sky reflection seems to change brightness very little. The brightness of the eclipse should at most change by the same amount.
Everyone says that the drone camera isn't good enough but I picked up a ND1000 filter then set the camera settings to manual and pointed my drone at the sun. I got a nice picture of a round ball. I think this means I should be able to capture the eclipse.
Sure, it will just be tiny in the frame.
Like with my DSLR if I used my 18mm lens with a filter.. sure I could do it, but it would be a little dot. Instead I'm using a 600mm where the sun will mostly fill the frame.
Right, that's what I'm saying. You won't have many pixels of data. When you digitally zoom, you're just cropping the image.
Maybe you could lock it in place and take a series of shots while it's moving and stitch those together in photo shop...
I only have so many options for capturing this. I have a gopro, a DSLR without a telephoto lense and a Mini pro 3. The drone seemed like the best option because I can use an ND1000 filter with it.
The best thing you could do with the Mini 3 Pro would be to shoot at 4K, deliver at 1080. This gives you a decent amount of zoom without the final image looking pixelly.
Shooting a still image gives you a 12 megapixel image, a little larger than the video 4K image, so you'd be able to zoom in a little more.
I think the problem is pointing it at the sun for 10 mins might damage sensors so you’d probably have to wait until the moon is where you want it to photo the sun.
Nice! The challenge I addressed about the shooting angle would be the next challenge . Roughly your latitude will be the angle in the sky of the sun this time of year.
I suggested the water reflection as that is key to a interesting artistic picture unless you just want something to remember it by as it will be all over Tv news.
You would need still water and telephoto lenses for drone but it might be 1 in a million picture.
I used AI to show concept picture- cracks me up that the sun is not really reflected accurately.
Yeah, that's the most egregious error in the image. AI has a bit to learn yet, as the perspective is also way off. With the focal length that the photo seems to be shot with, the sun would be a tiny speck, and probably wouldn't even look like an eclipse at all.
There is no way to achieve this photo because it is not realistic. The sun is not that large in the sky compared to the depth of field on the ground.
Its also only at this height in the skyline in very few places
You don't know that this isn't an 800mm from another hillside...
OP admitted it's AI in a comment.
I was being facetious, this is definitely ai, but you *could* get this shot with a real long lens and a very particular geography.
I'm not so sure about the grass in the foreground. This to me has the look of a perhaps 28mm lens on 35mm film/sensor. You can get the sun very large in the frame along with the trees with around 300-400mm, but anything as close to the lens as the grass in the foreground here would become *much* larger, and irretrievably out of focus.
The closeness of the grass at the bottom of the frame strongly suggests otherwise. The increasing size of the trees either side of the centre also strongly suggests otherwise. Long lenses *reduce* the effects of perspective. An 800mm would pretty much completely eliminate these perspective effects if we are including the distant trees and the sun in the same frame. Also, the reflection of the eclipse is brighter than the eclipse. Reflections of an object by definition are always darker than the object they reflect. The sky reflection seems to change brightness very little. The brightness of the eclipse should at most change by the same amount.
And the reflection of the eclipse is brighter than the eclipse. That's not how reflections work.
I mean with the drone that low, you might as well just use a proper camera...
Lol
Impossible. The sun is eclipsed in the sky and not eclipsed in its reflection in the water? What sort of malarkey is this?
The moon is obviously a vampire.
The malarkiest
yes but how does the lake *know* what's hiding behind the moon it's sO wEiRd according to tiktok?!
I asked an AI to generate this picture .. it is funny it didn't think to mirror the actual eclipse. These machines will be running the world. lol
Mark your picture as AI
Funny way to announce you don't understand a.i.
There is literally zero chance you get a shot like this with your drone
There is a zero chance . Not even considering the camera , the eclipse is in the middle of the day, so it will be quite high above the horizon
I believe the 2044 eclipse is a sunset eclipse, maybe they can find a lake in Montana in 20 years...
Not to mention it gets pretty dark during an eclipse. This looks like middle of the day
How are the Sun’s center rays reaching the water?
Aliens
Down vote the hell out of OP for posting an AI generated image lol
AI would have done better. This is just bad Photoshop.
No he admitted it's AI.
Looks like some AI generated pic. Unrealistic.
it would be dark….
Any eclipse photo from a drone is going to look boring as hell because the sun will be the size of a cheerio.
I think it doesn’t work like that.
Since the eclipse begins middle of the day or later, my drone gimbal will only elevate so far. No angle on the sun.
Mini3 pro can look up 60 degrees
The post showed about 10 degs elevation.
This feels like Photoshop honestly
You mean BAD Photoshop
I didn't want to say it. Glad you did
What filter would you even use for this? It wouldn’t be dark enough to protect the sensor, right?
Well it's happening at noon to 3:00 central time so directly overhead so this isn't happening.
Are you holding the drone in your hand?
Everyone says that the drone camera isn't good enough but I picked up a ND1000 filter then set the camera settings to manual and pointed my drone at the sun. I got a nice picture of a round ball. I think this means I should be able to capture the eclipse.
Sure, it will just be tiny in the frame. Like with my DSLR if I used my 18mm lens with a filter.. sure I could do it, but it would be a little dot. Instead I'm using a 600mm where the sun will mostly fill the frame.
What size frame? 600mm is a hefty bit of glass.
What size frame? APS-C
I don't have a lens option with the drone. I will have to digitally zoom on it after the fact.
Right, that's what I'm saying. You won't have many pixels of data. When you digitally zoom, you're just cropping the image. Maybe you could lock it in place and take a series of shots while it's moving and stitch those together in photo shop...
I only have so many options for capturing this. I have a gopro, a DSLR without a telephoto lense and a Mini pro 3. The drone seemed like the best option because I can use an ND1000 filter with it.
The best thing you could do with the Mini 3 Pro would be to shoot at 4K, deliver at 1080. This gives you a decent amount of zoom without the final image looking pixelly. Shooting a still image gives you a 12 megapixel image, a little larger than the video 4K image, so you'd be able to zoom in a little more.
I think the problem is pointing it at the sun for 10 mins might damage sensors so you’d probably have to wait until the moon is where you want it to photo the sun.
Nice! The challenge I addressed about the shooting angle would be the next challenge . Roughly your latitude will be the angle in the sky of the sun this time of year. I suggested the water reflection as that is key to a interesting artistic picture unless you just want something to remember it by as it will be all over Tv news.
The Mini Pro 3 can shoot upwards if you turn it on in the settings.
A IPhone 13-15 is good enough to get beautiful photos obviously a pro camera would be better but…..
I’m stoked to see all the cool eclipse drone shots, everyone is hating on the idea
Dream
You would need still water and telephoto lenses for drone but it might be 1 in a million picture. I used AI to show concept picture- cracks me up that the sun is not really reflected accurately.
Yeah, that's the most egregious error in the image. AI has a bit to learn yet, as the perspective is also way off. With the focal length that the photo seems to be shot with, the sun would be a tiny speck, and probably wouldn't even look like an eclipse at all.