From Liz Crehan: This is the eclipse at 92%, the maximum for New Canaan. We had a thin film of cloud throughout most of the event, but good photos were still possible. I took this photo of the eclipse in my backyard here in New Canaan. For the photos, I used my Fuji XT2 with the Fujifilm XF 100-400mm lens and their 1.4 teleconverter. Fuji is a mirrorless system, so in DSLR language, that means my lens equated to 840mm in focal length; pretty powerful and I didn’t need to crop this photo. This photo was taken at 200 ISO, f16 and 1/80th sec. I had purchased a solar filter for the event but I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to like the results, especially knowing that we weren’t going to experience the full corona in New Canaan and would only witness 92% of a full eclipse. The clouds were moving in and out very quickly which made everything look dull and muddy and the images were too monotone. So I quickly switched the solar filter out for my neutral density filters that I’ve owned for many years. I overlapped 3 of them in a frame that connects to the top of the lens. Sure enough, I was able to work the camera more to my liking and I captured the movement of the clouds in front of the sun. I think this is partly why I got these gorgeous gradations in color; the ND filters combined with the refractions of light coming from the thin veil of cloud created a mystifying effect.
From Keith Simpson: This is a photo Bill Pollack took of the eclipse when we were watching it together on Elm Street at 3.30 pm today. Some cloud cover came over at just the right time, to filter the light enough for a good photo – and the bird came in to help.
From Stephanie Dunn Ashley: Stephanie took this after taping her eclipse glasses over her camera lens. She was at the Mianus River in Greenwich when she took this photo of the partial eclipse.
From Janice Hone: Janice’s daughter Caitlyn Hone, who is a former Sentinel Award recipient and an intern at Ivey, Barnum & O’Mara in Greenwich is a senior at St. Lawrence University. St. Lawrence, located in Canton, New York, was in the path of totality and Caitlyn was able to take this with her phone.
