My Transit of Venus Photos

More than a month later (previous post), 

mainly because I just recently realized I haven't done this yet, 

I am finally posting my Transit of Venus photos.

But who cares...

... as long as they are here.

 

My photographs were taken on the countryside outside 

Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico on a sunny and hot day.

I used a Nikkor 300mm zoom telephoto on my Nikon,

a tripod, a IF shutter trigger and a Meade solar filter sheet,

adapted to a simple UV filter.

I pretty much cut a circle of the 58mm diameter of the filter (less actually),

and removed the cap that holds the glass in place,

placed the solar filter circle on it and put the cap back on

to hold it up, behind the UV filter glass.

 

Then it was pointing at the Sun and having fun. 

I am so glad I witnessed it because it will only happen again

on my next life...

We stayed until the light was no longer producing good photos with

the filter and the clouds started to show up.

So here they are.

There are a lot of them and it took me forever to process them

in Lightroom (I shoot in RAW).

You can see them all in my Picasa Album or my Facebook Album.

 I want to thank Marcela and Diana for taking me outside the city,

to a good place to do this!

It was awesome!

I was trying the new video editing inside Photoshop CS6
and I needed a subject, so I chose to use the photos
I took of the Transit of Venus back in June.
I am a noob when it comes to making
slideshow video but I wanted to try it out.

Listening to: Game of Thrones Score - Finale 
 Reading: George R. R. Martin - Game of Thrones    
Playing: World of Warcraft   
Watching: True Blood + Vampire Diaries + 
Game of Thrones + Castle + House
Eating: Tomato soup
Drinking: Coke
 Quote: "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, 
you must first create the universe." 
(Carl Sagan)