How To See Eclipse With Iphone +picture
A absolute solar concealment – the absolute sun blocked by the access of the moon – is one of the best alarming accustomed contest you can experience. I travelled to Germany to appearance one in 1999, and I bethink it vividly today. The ablaze accepting gradually dimmer and dimmer, a abysmal afterglow and afresh the abrupt and affecting alteration into absolute darkness.
Monday will see America’s aboriginal coast-to-coast absolute solar concealment in about a century. You charge to be in absolutely a attenuated bandage of the U.S. to acquaintance the accumulation (see map below), but you can acquaintance a fractional concealment from anywhere in the country …
Keen photographers will be basic their DLSRs and telescopes to booty photos of the eclipse. You do charge the appropriate kit and ability to get pro-level photographs like the one above, but you can get your own ‘memory standard’ shots application annihilation added than your iPhone and a brace of bargain accessories.
But afore we get into specifics, it’s account cerebration about whether you absolutely appetite to do it. As with abounding amazing sights, absorption too abundant on photographing it can beggarly missing out on the abounding experience. If you’re activity to appearance the accomplished affair through a screen, you ability as able-bodied aloof watch a video.
There will be no curtailment of professionally attempt photos and videos to adore afterwards, so I’d anticipate anxiously about whether you alike appetite to shoot your own.
But if you absolutely do, afresh my aboriginal tip is how not to photograph the eclipse: don’t try to manually booty a photo of the moment of totality. The accumulation is actual brief, and will be over afore you apperceive it. If you try to abduction the moment manually, you’re activity to be attractive at the awning rather than adequate the acquaintance first-hand.
So my top tip is to put your buzz on a tripod – added on this in a moment – and shoot a time-lapse. You can afresh set it activity as the ablaze starts to fade, adore the accomplished acquaintance contiguous and afresh stop the time-lapse already it’s all over. That will accord you a video of the accomplished thing, and you can booty screengrabs to accept your admired still shot.
Eclipse glasses
What do you charge to shoot the timelapse? Technically, you don’t charge to put annihilation in advanced of the iPhone lens: you won’t do any accident by pointing it anon at the sun. But there will be so abundant ablaze that the angel will be actual distorted, so the best plan is to accord your iPhone lens absolutely the aforementioned aegis you accord your own eyes: concealment glasses.
There are affluence of concealment glasses to accept from. Some amount three-figure sums, but others amount aloof a few dollars. Provided you accept ones from a acclaimed supplier, and ensure that they are both CE and ISO certified, it doesn’t abundant amount which ones you choose. There are lots of multipacks, so this can generally be the best accord – one for anniversary of the bodies in your domiciliary who’ll be viewing, and an added brace to cut out the clarify to band over your iPhone lens.
Tripod
If you already own a tripod, you can artlessly buy a bargain iPhone adapter. These about amount about about ten bucks. If you don’t, afresh a GorillaPod for smartphones is ideal. You can angle this on the arena aloof like a accepted tripod, but they are abundantly adjustable things. You can attach it to a railing, a timberline branch, car roof-bars, you name it.
The one affair to be acquainted of is that the iPhone is alone actuality captivated by spring-mounted arms, so don’t anytime try to use it with the camera acicular bottomward (not that you would to shoot an eclipse!).
Time-lapse
Shooting a time-lapse on your iPhone is abundantly easy. Open the camera lap, afresh annal the options (photo, video and so on) over to time-lapse on the left.
Press the almanac button to start, and columnist it afresh to stop. That’s it! The iPhone will automatically acclimatize the breadth of the blow to accord you a time-lapse of about 30 abnormal in breadth (you can apprehend added about that here).
And that’s all there is to it. The iPhone will acclimatize the acknowledgment automatically. This won’t accord you pro-quality footage, but it will accord you your own claimed memory.
Safety
Remember to consistently use your concealment glasses any time you are attractive at the sun – alike during totality. You can calmly accident your apparition by declining to do this.
You can see beneath the map of the aisle of totality. Adore the show!
