Total Solar Eclipse - Basic Processing Tutorial
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- Hope everyone had CLEAR SKIES today for the Eclipse!
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Here's a few tips for processing your eclipse photos with Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop.
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We had clouds in Houston, but my dad called me just before totality since he had clear skies at his house 100 miles south of Dallas. I got to listen to his excitement over the phone and that was the best present ever for him. I already saw the 2017 eclipse when we drove 700 miles to Hopkinsville KY. Now it was his turn
My dad and I drove from Houston to about 100 miles south of Dallas, incidentally. I was very happy to share the moment with him! We were in Gatesville! It was indeed very exciting!
I got to travel to Dallas and got to get good photos from Levy Event Plaza. The clouds cleared about 1 hr. before the first contact. We knew it was going to be a matter of luck. We were blessed to see it from start to finish. I'm so happy for your dad who got to see it.
I drove over 2000 miles with my 88 year old dad. Awesome road trip and nearly 3 minutes of totality. It was such a thrill, we are considering flying for 2026. - Cheers
Your Total Solar Eclipse videos allowed me to get exactly what I wanted on April 8th. Thank you for making it one of the greatest days of my life.
I second this. Got lucky with the clouds and was able to get great photos
I third this! Such an amazing experience.
I drove to Arkansas for clear skies and got some great photos. First time shooting an eclipse! Totality was INSANE!!
Arkansas lucked out big time 😊
@@NatarajanGanesan For sure!!
I drove some odd 5 or 6 hours to waco expecting complete cloud cover and my truck to break down somewhere along the way but we made it nonetheless and the few clouds there didn't cover the sun. Second eclipse and I managed to accidentally take the pictures right so I can stack them as well. I feel incredibly lucky
@@TeaMollie11 Nice!! This was my second eclipse as well, but first photographing it. I’ll be stacking as well for the first time! Same, feel really grateful how well the shots came out and getting to experience it again 🙏🏼 Now I want to be an eclipse chaser and photograph them all!!
@@DavidToback I got mine all put together and my only complaint is some kind of glare around the entire moon that makes it harder to see detail in the corona and im hoping i can fix that
I went up to Pittsburg NH to see this thing. I have no words....it was beautiful, stunning, unreal, amazing. Everything about eclipse day was perfect for me. I managed to get the Dimond Ring and a SOLAR FLARE! TWO SOLAR FLARES!
My wife and I ended up in Pittsburg as well! (At the school.) I got great shots of the entire thing. Was so awesome.
I was just above Pittsburg NH too. At the last lake right before the Canadian border crossing. Blew my mind.
i got really lucky this time and managed to live only 5 minutes away from totality! my whole family drove to an open lot and watched it with some friends. truely a lifechanging experience
Travelled 14 hours round trip from central MA to Pittsburg NH. Watched your videos prior and as a first time seeing/photographing totality I got some INSANE photos. Diamond Ring, Baileys, Prominences, Inner Corona and some Mid corona, and even managed to get a little earthshine! Was such an unreal experience and I now understand how it can be addicting. I am in Eclipse withdrawal.
My wife and I ended up in Pittsburg as well! (At the school.) I got great shots of the entire thing. Was so awesome.
@@snymat_68 was at back lake beach. Bout 50-60 people there so it was a little more calm. Didn’t see much of the 360 twilight but looked awesome over the frozen lake.
@Cogoss21 Were you at the last lake before the Canadian border crossing? I think it was called the Third Conneticut Lake? If so I was there too. I was one of the guys right by the shore line. Perfect backdrop with the snow and frozen lake to our west.
Nico, I simply cannot thank you enough! I've watched this entire series multiple times, and your advice and guidance was (and continues to be) priceless. I planned my trip early, I set up my equipment properly, I made my own solar filters, I had the right software to run my camera, and I knew what I was doing because I practiced. And ALL of that was because of your advice and your knowledge. Thank you for sharing! On top of that, I was wonderfully lucky and now have some amazing photos to show for it. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Same here. I followed every advice and ended up with pretty good pictures. Thanks Nico for being a great mentor!
Very helpful video. I must admit that I prefer the results of the two leading, simpler methods as the last image, while fun, doesn't look anything like the eclipse that so mesmerized and moved us in the moment. I love the images that just slightly enhance what we saw and don't look like a painting. Will be using those suggested sliders!
Thank you Nico!!! I was in Conway, AR. We had clear skies and i got it all!!! The prominences, the diamond ring on both sides, the corona....it went better than i imagined it would.
I was close by in Morrilton!
@@DavidToback awesome! I get to start my drive back to NC in about an hour, around 7. Nothing like a 14 hour drive to remind you how great airline travel is, lol. Hope you had good views of the eclipse. Based on the forecast, i was nervous all the way till about 10am, lol.
@@kevinashley478 Oh man, that's a long drive, but worth it! Group of friends from Orlando RV'd and met me in Dallas. We were going to go somewhere in Texas but chased clear skies. We got 100% clear skies, it was incredible. My drive back to TX was only 7hrs, they had about 16 or so. Won't rule out flying next time but having the ability to drive to clear skies is great! We're thinking of going international next time!
Releasing this right now is such a good idea. Well played, here I am needing it!
Hope you found a clear sky Nico! Got a pretty good, only lightly cloudy sky up in northern VT. Your tutorials were invaluable in photographing it today!
So. 13:20 Basically the "duplicate layer, blur, subtract process" is creating the high pass frequency separation of the image. The 'difference layer' appears to be the high frequencies separated out of the 'layer 0' image.
Yep, good description
I got so many phenomenal images of the eclipse in Texas. I'm glad I kept up with satellite imagery, found a perfect opening in the sky, almost had me worried I would miss it!
Can I ask you what you used for satellite imagery? I was stuck in place after organizing a trip for multiple people, and we had views of the partial phases between breaks in the clouds, but they completely obscured totality for us. I'm not complaining, but next time I might not try to organize a group, so that I can stay nimble.
@@jasonkip I just used much of the resources talked of amongst astro/eclipse photographers.
College of DuPage, Windy, NWS GOES, and whatever local information I could gather on the weather services here. There was some people reporting on weather patterns along the path of totality which really helped a lot. I kept track of the forecast for the surrounding areas as well. I saw an opening and took my chances, thankfully it went well.
Cool! I saw full solar eclipse in 2014, but then I didn't even had the idea that I'll try astrophotography and had no idea what it exactly is. Now I have to wait for next solar eclipse.
Very nice! More fun than I had today driving thru it in western KY with headlights on :)
I’ve have been following you for some time. Many of your techniques I have incorporated in my Milky Way edits. This is my second total solar eclipse to photograph. My first was the 2017. This time I had more experience, more equipment and more knowledge thanks to you. I was staked out for the week in Leakey Texas west of San Antonio on a ranch. But watching cloud prediction models I was apprehensive. Early Sunday morning I was getting apprehensive. At 8 am we packed up our tear drop camper and moved 500 miles to Arkansas at Lake Dardanelle State Park in the Ozarks. Conditions were perfect
My sd card corrupted when there was about 1/3 of the eclipse left and I removed my glasses during totality but panicked when I couldn’t see the sun before I realized I forgot to take off my solar filter… not exactly a pro, wish me luck trying to recover my pictures lmao. Hope your photos turned out!
Yes, happy eclipse day Nico. Thanks for all your work and motivating me personally to take on this once an a life time event. Perfect timing and tutorial as I now have some data to edit.
Can you show me how to remove the clouds so I can see the eclipse??? 😂 Got snuffed by clouds in NY today...
Same here drove all around and no openings😢. Maybe photoshop could do that now April 1st update 😂
This is awesome! Can't wait to try these techniques!
Used my solar filter made with your design outside Bloomington IN yesterday! Great experience, THANK YOU!
This was my first time seeing an eclipse, it was beautifully amazing.
Thank you for your guidance in this eclipse series. The weather wasn’t great but I was able to get good looks from C1 through totality. After that the clouds took over. But I happy with what I got given the weather.
Your channel is one of the only select few channels, one needs.
Thank you for this. It really helped me out when editing. Take care.
Thanks Nico, excellent as always! I will be playing this as I process mine. Indiana skies were amazing yesterday!
Like a few others have mentioned, all of your eclipse prep videos helped me get exactly what I wanted out of this eclipse. My trip was super last minute but you made it possible. I was able to be completely hands off for my first time in totality and spent almost the whole four minutes and six seconds watching it with my own eyes. Thanks a ton, Nico. There's a video on my channel of my whole adventure if anyone wants to check it out!
Nico, You helped my anxiety and guided me (as well as many) through maximizing the success on an EPIC eclipse. It was absolutely unreal to experience. and to have these pictures is a highlight.
Thank you for this video, Nico! I have been searching for a method to bring out more details in my corona shot, which is already pretty great to start with. I can now enhance it with the methods shown here!
thanks for this! this was my first eclipse and got some great photos too at 400mm and 105mm, next is doing some proper HDR processing
Thanks! Every tutorial based video of yours has been of a great help and helped me process my images. Keep continuing your work.
thank you very much for your tutorial on photographing the solar eclipse; i was kind of late in preparing but your teaching has helped me being my first time in photographing this solar eclipse; with the help of SET app i was able to capture sequences of both diamond ring and Bailey’s beads at the beginning and end of totality- thank you very much; next i will learn post processing 🙏🙏🙏
We flew in to Dallas and drove up to Hot Springs , Arkansas for clear skies. Since I was traveling light I didn't bring much gear. I just used my Nikon D750 handheld with a 200mm lens and got some surprisingly good shots. This is a very helpful tutorial and I'll transfer some of your techniques to use in Affinity Pro and Luminar Neo, my primary photo processing programs.
Adding to the many thank yous. Awesome content.
That's brilliant! Thank you.
Well done, thanks of the toturial!
I went to the Adirondack mountains, had a perfect place with clear views of the southern sky, but clouds started rolling in a fee minutes before it started, was still able to get some good images as the clouds over all were thin and wispy most of the time, but the haze cause bloom and some detail loss, but my total eclipse images look like something out of a scifi movie because of how the clouds in the twilight sky made the corona and bloom look. wasnt able to get good corona images but i accidentally got beads and diamond ring while shooting like crazy and adjusting exposure, though lower resolution at 300 mm, i also got a few solar flares which i love and the progression of photos you can see it growing and looping. my biggest success though was my other camera project and why i went up in the mountains. timelapse of the moons shadow. because the clouds were uniform mostly and thin enough, i actually got the shadow from the underside of the clouds as it passed over which was way better than i had planned because the clouds are flat and the ground wasnt.
the biggest thing i was surprised with was how quickly the sky darkend and how quick it lightened back up after at totality. its amazing how little sun needs to show to get a large amount of light.
i enjoyed this experience very much and if i am able to do it again, im going to have a larger lens and a motorized mount, i want high quality images of the edge activity as i find it most interesting and dynamic
This is great, and reminds me how good you are at tutorials. I'm looking forward to your processing of the 2024 data. Please keep posting tutorials, including DSO data with your new observatory, thanks!
Thanks Nico! Great info and I really liked the blur difference technique! Can’t wait to try it out!
Cheers!
Doug
I got some really cool photos and made sure that at least some of my totality shots were in RAW format. I'm super excited to try these tips out when I get home tomorrow!
I also will have some more timelapses of it (including close up timelapse of most of the duration from partial till the end through a solar filter) on my channel in the next few days. I uploaded a short of a (unfortunately a bit noisy) close-up video of a plane flying by right during totality too!
Great tutorial. I got some good images from this. Looking forward to the advanced version 🤙🏽
Awesome pictures! We flew down to Dallas and I was lucky to get some photos of my first total solar eclipse ever despite the clouds! Your tutorials have helped me with other astrophotography shots, and now this! Pretty amazing how much information is still there even with the hazy clouds in the way, cheers!
There was some nominal (whisp-y to almost non existent) cloud cover where I was stationed. Not nearly enough to disrupt naked eye viewing, but enough to make photos less than they could be. So happy to have witnessed this event. Thanks for the tutorial, it is really helpful from what I've watched so far.
Like your session, and it opened new doors for the Nikon RAW images I took Monday near Hartland, NB
Perfect timing!
Thank you for posting this tutorial. I went back to my photos and discovered flares.
I was above Pittsburg NH for totality. For those in the area we were at the last lake right before the Canada border crossing (Third Conneticut Lake). Blew my dang mind to see this. Going to process the photos this weekend. The long/painful drive back to the hotel in Lebanon NH was worth it to see this.
We went from Canada to Austin TX to see the eclipse. On Monday morning, it was cloudy, so we drove north and found some relatively clear sky. By the time of the eclipse, the clouds rolled in again. But a minute or two into the totality, there was an opening and we saw the corona in all its glory. I managed to capture twenty or so frames with different exposure times, so this tutorial will come handy. Thank you for sharing.
😅great video Alex. I was in Quebec and got some phenomenal shots. Now I cant wait to get home and process!
I wound up in North Arkansas and it worked out great.
Thank you!!!! ❤❤❤❤
i was in the eastern townships quebec what an awesome experience
Last minute skies cleared in Dallas…still had poor transparency making long corona exposures have excess scattering but…visually stunning❤❤the thin haze is going to add a lot of scattering and noice if I push …😢
Special thanks to you Nico. I used capture eclipse on Mac and prepared well in advance. The shots I captured are stunning! I was able to let my main camera run while I captured some on a secondary camera and got to enjoy watching in person without fiddling with a camera. I hope it was clear skies for you. If you do an eclipse photo critique for all of us watching I’d be happy to submit.
8400km (5200 miles) round trip. Woke up to clouds and rain, but as luck would have it, the skies cleared.
Totality ended with a thin cloud cover but, over all didn't affect the view or most of my shots. Second diamond ring a little fuzzy, but not bad.
Made it a road trip with my 88 year old dad, and it truly was a thrill of a lifetime. Now to process all the data.
could you show how to do this on gimp
As always a great video. For RAW processing I may try Digital Photo Professional from Canon. Hopefully they give the same results. My AT60ED actually limited my exposure flexibility at ISO 100. My kit lens 75-300 would have been better. With totality in, I just froze 😂 by the sheer beauty of the spectacle. Have to see what I can get out my exposures.
Great vid - would you consider doing a short video demonstrating how you built your Bailey’s bead composite image?
When you do your follow-up video I hope you mention some ways of enhancing the prominences. There was a lot of interesting prominence detail in this eclipse.
We went to Jackson MO was beautiful
Awesome video Trevor and Ash. Great to experience it from another perspective. Fortunately I was in the path of totality and was able to capture images, but not video. Just too much to take in and try to capture at the same time.
I want one on GIMP!
we had Thhiiiiiiiccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk clouds outside of Bufffalo. But had a great time visiting with the family that gathered there
This is great. Thanks. Could you run the image through a denoise application to reduce/eliminate the noise that shows when you add clarity?
This is another great video as always, and thanks to the JWST Cosmic Cliffs a lot of us learned about your channel. A small bit of constructive feedback which I hope finds you well. The entire process of centering and radial blurring was an opportunity to explain things a bit more. The radial blur would not work at all unless the image was centered since the layer gets rotated around the central point. This would have tied the entire explanation together and made the process more cohesive. Perhaps. But what do I know, lol ! Thanks man ! Keep up the awesome work !
Great tutorial, thank you. This all works great "IF" you can get a perfect stacked alignment of the moon between shots. Even though I didn't change my focal length, or touched my focus (manual) from the start of C1, the edges never seem to match up enough to be as sharp as what you showed from yours. Perhaps limitations of equipment used (Sony A1 + 200-600 @f11)? It's close, but when stacking, it's causing issues on the edges that look bad when the "mean" is applied. I also noticed that if the centering of the moon isn't perfect for the radial blur, it also will cause an issue with the edges, but easier to correct by using a mask over the moon.
Thanks for another great video. I'm trying to build a composite photo of the Bailey's beads like you show on your website. Maybe you can do a video of that as a tutorial in the near future. Thanks again.
This was super helpful processing my corona. Mine is not as contrasty due to cirrus clouds but still excellent.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!! I’m ready to start editing my corona files. Can you briefly explain why you did not do auto alignment? One thing I want to do is process the detailed corona, but then I want the prominences layered on top. I am not sure if I will have to mask the prominences, which will be difficult, since there is not a solid line between the prominences and the background ( I’ll choose a black background for the prominence image ). I may be able to make the black color transparent, but I doubt the edges will be clean enough to prevent ringing. I am very comfortable with Lightroom, but a Photoshop novice, at best.
So, first thanks for this tutorial. You do a great job of explaining the steps. I seem to be running into trouble getting my shots lined up as there appears to be some distortion of the shape, every so slight, but enough to cause trouble to get a great alignment. Any tips?
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. My question is can you do all of this in Lightroom? I have LR but I don't see many of the options you discuss. (I was able to do a photo merge my eclipse photos into an HDR and I played around with some of the settings you demonstrated but I did not see any options for layers.) Looks like I may have to invest in Photoshop.
where did you end up? Are you still in Somerville? I lived on Winter Hill now I'm in Malden.. I took my Electric Unicycle and rode up to Greenville Maine by Moosehead.. Took the Seestar s50 on my back and just went up there there.. awesome trip, awesome experience even though the night was very cold and windy... Waiting for your next upload
Thanks for this tutorial, sinking into edit my shots now. If creating an HDR stacked image, would you still edit in Lightroom to drop blacks, up contrast, and up clarity or is that for single image editing?
It will be next week before I'll be home to process my photos. I want to have it printed on a black t-shirt and have eclipse 2024 on it.
Hey, which Lens did you used it for the images? :) Good Job done. :) 🎉
Interesting.
Good video. Could you do a video on this with your 2024 eclipse using gimp?
Hi, thank you for the detailed tutorial. Could you make one with free softwares?
Nico- I stacked a lot of images at different exposures. I have great sun rays extending out, but I am finding that I also have a very pronounced halo around the sun/moon due to the brightness of the images. How can I get rid of that but keep the exposure of the rest of everything I want to keep that is close to the sun/moon?
Did you manage to see or image the comet during totality?
Hi, could you please make a video for GIMP ?.
I got some good images of yesterday's eclipse, but some of them, especially my corona 7-shot stack, is still suffering from banding around the outside of the image. You can see the same sort of banding I'm talking about in your stacking example from this video. Is there an easy way to get rid of this banding?
i had the clearest skies for the eclipse in indiana but i had no time to set up my camera because i had to be at work 😢
Thanks Nico! That Radial Blur technique really helped my HDR of 11 images. Unfortunately I use GIMP not PS so it's a bit different. Here are the steps that worked for me:
Duplicate Original Layer
On new layer Color → Desaturate → Desaturate (rename layer Desaturate)
Duplicate Desaturate
On new layer Filters → Blur → Circular Motion Blur Center on Eclipse; Angle 10 Set Layer mode to Substract (rename layer Circular Blur)
Undo Original layer visibility
Merge Layers Desaturate/Circular Blur Set mode to Soft Light
Merge above with original layer
Adjust final layer with curves etc for desired result
Maybe this will be useful to GIMP users
I was in Fredericksburg, TX. I quickly made a decision to go 50 minutes North to Llano, and 20 minutes before Totality the skies somehow cleared up. We could see all of totality. I wonder what would've happened if I stayed.
Waco had a big clear patch that stuck around all thru it and after
Unfortunately, right as totality hit, I knocked my focus and lost everything in the sequence. do you know if it there is any way to salvage the out of focus images?
There won't be any photo processing for me this time. 🙁 I was plagued by technical problems. And every single issue was my fault for not rehearsing. (I know better! I was just lazy.)
Light leak in my camera's solar filter mount gave me reflections between the filter and lens.
I didn't make a shade hood for the camera's display, so I mostly saw my shirt's reflection in the display when trying to align and focus. (Mental note, next time prepare a display shade, and wear a black shirt.)
It's a newer camera to me, resulting in too much fidgeting trying to find right settings.
I was overconfident in my telescope's batteries -- they died early on, and I thought I had spares but didn't -- and it wasn't worth the effort to manually track the sun. It's a Meade ETX in alt-az mode, so manual pointing is pretty rough, especially since my battery overconfidence led me to not bother making a sun finder.
My observing location wasn't well thought out and the last half of the eclipse was behind a flowering pear tree, leading to a rapid and sloppy relocation.
But, you know what?
None of that really mattered, because I had good company and we enjoyed it visually with plain ol' viewers and some views through the telescope, which I realigned every 10-15 minutes or so.
I was into visual astronomy years before I got into astrophotography and my brain still considers viewing to be the main objective (ha! pun intended) and pictures, when possible, as just a bonus.
Tempted to do an advanced processing in Pixinsight?
Do you have any plans to release a video covering editing with free software such as DarkTable, RawTherapee and or GIMP? It would be much appreciated!
Woah
Due to clouds...I wasn't able to get my focus correct....Is there a tool in LR that will help with getting a sharper image or am I stuck with what I have ?
Hi Nico, I took many different exposures times (.0025 sec, .2 sec, .6 sec, .2 sec, .6 sec, 1.3 sec, 1.6 sec) of the April 8th eclipse, can you point me to a video that educates me on how to combine these into a single image (I have both Photoshop and PixInsight)? Best Regards, Tim
Well SOMEBODY knows what we are looking for!
For those of us who don't have Photoshop (gasp!), how does one do the blur subtract step in GIMP? Doing the azimuthal blur is straightforward, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to subtract that from the non-blurred image including the 128 offset.
that's a very neat trick on the duplicated layers to bring out more details. Sadly, next total solar eclipse in Australia is 2028...
When I introduce radial blur I get a sort of cat eye effect with a deep dark cat eye in the center. If I change the radial effect up, the cat eye increases. If I change it down, the cat eye decreases but the radiant spikes also turn to burry areas.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to correct this?
I need that tutorial for earth shine haha
Hey Nico, when I am adding the radial blur, sometimes the blur is going to far in, unlike in yours where it is just the corona getting blurred. Any advice on that?
Cover with a non-blurred shot and a layer mask on top of the layer stack
Where I live...97% eclipse, so no totality. Was going to drive to sister's place near the center of totality path, but clouds killed that idea. Clouds at my place, but not socked in like she had. So, I got some interesting pictures of an eclipse with clouds crossing the face of the sun. Of course, the thickness of the clouds varied from moment to moment. I was forced to shoot aperture priority. Worked fine until the crescent got too small, then it was manual mode and bracket.
One other point of interest. Using a Sony A9 and A7Rii. Practicing the day before with clear skies, I gotta say, Auto focus works better than manual focus. Comparing pictures by looking at the sun spots....I was never able to match what Autofocus was giving me by going manual. Yes, I know every "expert" and their brothers were preaching manual focus. I prefer to test myself. However, once the clouds rolled in on the day of the eclipse, autofocus went out the window (clouds drove it nuts). I actually found manual focus easier with the clouds then without. Not sure why. Peaking color seemed more prominent. Why is that? Beats the heck out of me. So, got both camera's well focused manually, but with all the clouds, just lucky to get something kind of sharp. Sure, I missed totality, but my plan to go 200 miles to my sister's place died and I didn't have a viable option.
Have you tried using the radial blur mode on each image before combining them? Looks like you combined unsharpened images then sharpened.
Yes, saving some stuff for a more advanced tutorial
@@NebulaPhotosany idea on when the advanced tutorial will be posted? I’m eager to work on my photos. Great tips in this video!
@@Brian-es9ey Unfortunately, probably not for a while (2-3 weeks?) as I won't have time to look at my 2024 data until after NEAF later this week, and then will need time to produce the tutorial