The morning of March 20th 2015 dawned reasonably clear as I drove down the A55 to the North Wales coast to capture, in as many ways as possible, the partial solar eclipse that was due to occur between 8.30 and 10.30am.
Part of my master plan was to take a few hundred still images looking out over Colwyn Bay from the promenade at Rhos-on-Sea, to make this time lapse video of the tide coming in while the landscape darkened and then lightened again during the eclipse.
Well my plan mostly worked, with the tide racing in up the beach and over the jetty in a most satisfactory fashion, but unfortunately the clear skies that I had earlier on didn't last, and by the time the eclipse was in its final phase the clouds had moved in and it was effectively game over till 2026!
Still, it is possible to see the sun in its state of maximum eclipse (around 90% where I was viewing it from) and the whole scene growing darker as the light fades - the only problem is that the light levels never really increase again thanks to the cloud.
Oh well, half of an eclipse is better than none!
Filename - solar eclipse 02 720p v2.mp4
Camera - Canon EOS 5D
Lens 17-40mm zoom @ 20mm
Exposure - 0.8 sec @ f16, ISO100
Capture interval - 15 secs
Location - Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 27 seconds at 25 frames per second.
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