Blogging from Arlington, MA and beyond
It’s not that it was all in my eyes and stuff. It wasn’t. But here’s the deal: I had a polarizer on and that means that I didn’t have the lens shade on, as it won’t fit around my polarizer holder. While I was looking through the viewfinder composing the shot, I couldn’t really see any impacts from shooting fairly directly at the sun. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t there.
In the case of the analysis I’m doing here, the subject matter (and discriminating criteria for the camera) is shooting interior photographs of home movie theatres. And I’m not talking about a plasma screen and HiDef cable either. I’m talking serious, high-end home theatres that cost between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. With that in mind, let’s go back over the top three criteria and get some commentary.
As I’ve obsessed about before, taking photos of the moon is hard enough under normal circumstances. Let me tell you a bit about what I was up against for these pictures as we reach totality.