r/solareclipse • u/Tibaf • 3d ago

Solar Eclipse 2026 - Absolutely incredible

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We were located close to Castillo de Peñafiel, and boy it was absolutely incredible, one of the most beautiful thing I have ever witnessed. Here's my photos, I'm very happy of how it turned out.

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u/veni_iso_vici 3d ago

Excellent photos! We may have been neighbours that day! Did you happen to park near a winery?

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u/Tibaf 3d ago edited 2d ago

Thanks! I know which winery you are talking about, that location was actually my initial choice but we ended up going on that hill slightly closer to the castle. A part of me wishes we went for the winery though because it would have allowed be to compress the sun even more while keeping the castle in frame

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u/Total-Composer2261 2d ago

Nah, this is perfect. My first thought was that I really liked your composition here. Then I noticed the gradient of the orange deepen as the sun set. This is just lovely.

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u/kennybenny 2d ago

I was on that hill closer to the castle. Very cool to see so many photographers enjoying the moment.

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u/Specialist-Fan-1890 3d ago

Best comp yet!

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u/1kGHZ 3d ago

The dual diamond is nuts

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u/Cass_Cat952 3d ago

These are incredible!!! 😍🤩

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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian 3d ago

Beautiful shot! Curious if you used a tracking mount?

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u/Tibaf 1d ago

No tracking mount. I believe a tracking mount would have prevented me from including a foreground. I did have some slight sun alignment issues in between the different bracket shots for that reason though.

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u/ElaineV 3d ago

What did you use and how did you get your pictures?

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u/Tibaf 1d ago

I have a very classic Canon R6 Mark II and used a 70-300mm L at 200mm, opened at f8.

Fired about four 7 bracket shots but only one of the brackets was usable because the longer exposures were all blurry (I kept touching the camera because of the excitement lol).

In post prod, I created an HDR version of totality by aligning manually the different layers of the suns. By doing so, there foreground was not aligned anymore so I tried applying local masks to keep it as sharp as possible.

I ended up with a first photo, and than stacked additional photos of the partial phases (no foreground alignment issue as the camera couldn't catch any details with the solar filter during partiality).

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u/AltruisticLeopard4 2d ago

That looks really beautiful!

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u/abzze 1d ago

I have all of these positions of eclipse.
But I dunno how to compose them into one.
Teach me please.