HOW TO TAKE GREAT PICTURES OF THE SOLAR ECLIPSE, EVEN WITH YOUR PHONE
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This summer, the sun and moon are going to tango in a way America hasn’t seen perhaps in your lifetime. On August 21, the United States will get its first total eclipse of the sun since 1979, 38 years ago. Or four years longer than when we got our last total eclipse of the heart.
People are already making serious travel plans for the solar eclipse to get underneath the line of totality, where the eclipse will be the darkest for the longest, but you’ll be able to see at least a partial eclipse all over the country. And since this is America’s first total eclipse since the advent of social media, having the best dang Instagram of the event is obviously a top priority.
Getting a decent snapshot of the freakin’ sun presents some special challenges — considering you shouldn’t even be watching it without special glasses. So we talked to professional photographer and Nikon ambassador Lucas Gilman, and he gave us some tips on how to get the best pictures of 2017’s total solar eclipse.
