Here are some general guidelines for taking successful smartphone photos of the solar eclipse.
Tips for taking a successful photograph with a smartphone
- Use a tripod or rest your smartphone on a stable surface to avoid shaking.
- Make manual adjustments. Focus on the eclipse by tapping the image on the screen and darkening or lightening the exposure. Do not rely on your smartphone's autofocus.
- On iOS cameras, a sun icon will appear after you tap an object. This is the exposure slider. On Android cameras, the exposure setting can be found after tapping the gear icon.
- NASA says zooming in with your smartphone will not alter the resolution of your shot. For a higher resolution shot, you will need telephoto lenses to clip directly over the existing smartphone lens.
Safety issues
- NASA suggests using a pair of ISO-Certified sun-viewing glasses to cover the camera lens of your smartphone.
- Smartphones were not meant for sun and moon photography because the camera lenses are very small.
- Using optical filters to photograph the eclipse when you are not on the path of totality is risky.
- Without a filter, the sun will appear like a blob of light with pixelated edges in your photograph.
- According to NASA, the best way to protect your camera while pointing it at the sun is to cover the lens with a solar filter. If you photograph the solar disk without a filter, you will see nothing but sensor blooming.
- Blooming happens when a large amount of light gets focused to a single point on your camera's image sensor. For example, when you take a photo of a supermoon with your smartphone, it will come out as a bright glowing orb floating against a black sky.
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