This is the improved photography Podcast episode number 219.

Hey everybody and welcome back to the Improved Photography Podcast.

I'm your host, Jim Harmer, and today to give you your weekly dose of photography knowledge, I have Brent Bergherm and Connor Hibbs on the line.

Hey guys.

Hey!

Well, we are going to talk today about the Solar Eclipse eclipse traveling with photography equipment and

photographing with just one light plus the do dads of the week and no ads today I

thought it would be nice just to take an ad vacation. So we did. So let's get

let's get to the total solar eclipse of 2017. So this is several months off

but I've been hearing people talk about this for months already.

Brent, you know more about this. I'm totally dumb when it comes to astronomy stuff.

I really, I can find the Milky Way and that's it.

Yes.

So start from Basic.

Why is this such a big deal?

Because it seems like an eclipse comes around every couple of years.

Well, this is a big deal because it is going to cross the entire continental United States

and oftentimes when we have a total eclipse, it's either, it's, if it's going to cross a landmass

it might be in a fairly

unpopulated area or might even be over the ocean in fact a couple years ago

there was one in Alaska Airlines diverted a flight from

anchorage to Honolulu so they could fly in the path along with it and I was like that's so cool I would love to have been on that flight.

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