astro.midnightTotality, before and after. These are the famous Baily’s Beads, the last breath of sunlight through the lunar mountains just before and after totality, and to be honest, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life.One of the nicest details in these eclipse images is the warm yellow color. With the Sun very low in the sky, the atmosphere naturally shifted its light toward yellow, a look I made sure to preserve as naturally as possible.This sequence was captured with my Canon RF and Canon RF 200-800mm telephoto lens at 600mm f/8, ISO 100, mounted on a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracking the Sun. To capture this level of detail and extreme dynamic range, I used two types of 7-step bracketing: one for the Baily’s Beads and another for totality. These were saved in the camera memory so that at the exact moment I could just switch modes and fire again.
