It looked promising for a great view of today’s partial solar eclipse from Sydney’s North Head but unfortunately the clouds moved in just after the moon started passing in front of the sun at 4:14 pm. I used my Nikon D800E with 70-200 mm f/2.8 with 1.7 Teleconverter and a couple of Cokin neutral density filters. This is the first time I’d tried photographing an eclipse so there was a bit of trial and error but I was reasonably happy with the shots I got in the first few minutes. Here are some of the results:
Then the clouds started moving in hiding any further views of the eclipse but giving quite a surreal feeling….just glad I got in place early enough to get shots of the first stages of the eclipse.
After it was all over there was a nice sunset over Chatswood.
…and a Manly ferry added a nice final touch.
