Pyroclastic posted:

I'm generally a photography newbie, and I'm trying to process the pics I took of the eclipse. It's...not going well.

I made my own solar filter using legit filter sheets, and got decent results with a 70d, 300mm zoom lens, a tripod leaking grease, a remote shutter cable, and a beeping interval timer on my phone. I took a picture every minute from contact to contact, with some exposure changeups during totality. Next time, tracking mount and CHDK!

I had to manually track the sun with the tripod mount, and I was concerned with the sun being in frame every shot, not being centered. I assumed it would be child's play to align everything, since there's nothing in the shots but the sun.

This has not proven to be the case. I've tried things like stack aligning in Photoshop (7 day trial!) or control points in Hugin, but nothing's working. I started to resort to a 4.4 gigabyte PSB file with over 200 layers, just manually dragging each layer and masking out most of the black to get rid of extra pixels, but it's a slow process.
I'm sure there's a way to do this mostly automatically, but I haven't found anything on my level that works.