how to capture something like this?

hi folks...
so i was looking at a different web site at some pics - called "eyegasms"
and ran across a pic by a photographer named clinton melander
who caught the stages of the solar eclipse over horseshoe bend
and i was wondering how one would go about such a shot....
would this have an intervolumeter shooting and then do some sort of tone mapping?
can this be done for the moon, too?

I read a little blurb about the picture by the photographer here:
http://500px.com/photo​/8724278

but I am not sure i understand. He merged series of pics from two cameras using lenses of different focal lengths? thanks for help understanding....

ceriltheblade wrote in post #15170823
hi folks...
so i was looking at a different web site at some pics - called "eyegasms"
and ran across a pic by a photographer named clinton melander
who caught the stages of the solar eclipse over horseshoe bend
and i was wondering how one would go about such a shot....
would this have an intervolumeter shooting and then do some sort of tone mapping?
can this be done for the moon, too?

I read a little blurb about the picture by the photographer here:
http://500px.com/photo​/8724278

but I am not sure i understand. He merged series of pics from two cameras using lenses of different focal lengths? thanks for help understanding....

cool pic, in the comment section he describes how he got the shot (s)

ceriltheblade wrote in post #15170823
but I am not sure i understand. He merged series of pics from two cameras using lenses of different focal lengths? thanks for help understanding....

It sounds like he took a series of images for the panorama of the canyon, and then, with a different camera and lens, took the series images of the sun through the eclipse. At the end, he took the photos of the eclipse and layered them onto the panorama of the canyon.

hth

dude. i guess i was having a bad reading day....
layers.....what a concept (dripping sarcasm)
i guess it was just a clasic example of brain fart on my part.

thanks all.....

but i thought it was a cool picture anyway.....

ceriltheblade wrote in post #15172310
dude. i guess i was having a bad reading day....
layers.....what a concept (dripping sarcasm)
i guess it was just a clasic example of brain fart on my part.

thanks all.....

but i thought it was a cool picture anyway.....

You should have seen my failure at reading comprehension the other day with a client. I somehow dropped the "1" from "16 dozen," and didn't make enough stuffers. Oops!

It was, indeed, a cool picture, too!

So that's what a 1.78GB (320 megapixel) picture looks like. My 7 years old notebook would probably take a day to open the file, assuming that it doesn't crash. It's an awesome picture!

That is a great product, we are a creative bunch aren't we?