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| Solar eclipse 2015: On Friday, everyone will screw up photographing the sun | |
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| Between 8.25am and 10.41am on Friday, London will experience a solar eclipse. By 10.52 your news feeds will be flooded with really bad photography of it. | Between 8.25am and 10.41am on Friday, London will experience a solar eclipse. By 10.52 your news feeds will be flooded with really bad photography of it. |
| We're used to seeing world events from every possible angle now thanks to social media, but this time smartphones are going to come up short. | We're used to seeing world events from every possible angle now thanks to social media, but this time smartphones are going to come up short. |
| While their cameras have improved hugely in recent years they still can't handle the Sun properly, making it appear in photos as a white blob with bleeding light and too much lens flare. | While their cameras have improved hugely in recent years they still can't handle the Sun properly, making it appear in photos as a white blob with bleeding light and too much lens flare. |
| The fact that it's impossible to capture a defined edge to the star except at sunset makes it very hard to shoot an eclipse, where these lines are everything. | The fact that it's impossible to capture a defined edge to the star except at sunset makes it very hard to shoot an eclipse, where these lines are everything. |
| Attempts to capture the front and tail end of the eclipse will probably end in disaster, while the mid-eclipse might just about make for a decent photo, particularly if you're in an area where the eclipse is at the highest coverage. | Attempts to capture the front and tail end of the eclipse will probably end in disaster, while the mid-eclipse might just about make for a decent photo, particularly if you're in an area where the eclipse is at the highest coverage. |
| Moreover people could end up damaging the lenses in their cameras on Friday, as they're not designed to be pointed directly at sunlight. | Moreover people could end up damaging the lenses in their cameras on Friday, as they're not designed to be pointed directly at sunlight. |
| There is a way around this however (postage time permitting), with solar filters available online that limit the amount of light that goes through the lens, protecting the camera from the bright light. | There is a way around this however (postage time permitting), with solar filters available online that limit the amount of light that goes through the lens, protecting the camera from the bright light. |
| It's also worth lowering the amount of light that the camera takes in if possible in settings – there's more on that and other tips for getting a remotely Facebookable photo of the eclipse here. | It's also worth lowering the amount of light that the camera takes in if possible in settings – there's more on that and other tips for getting a remotely Facebookable photo of the eclipse here. |