{"id":93116,"date":"2019-07-04T09:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/photographer-captures-perfect-shot-of-person-holding-the-total-solar-eclipse"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:03:41","slug":"photographer-captures-perfect-shot-of-person-holding-the-total-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/photographer-captures-perfect-shot-of-person-holding-the-total-solar-eclipse","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Captures Perfect Shot of Person \u2018Holding\u2019 the Total Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photographer-captures-perfect-shot-of-person-holding-the-total-solar-eclipse3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/albertdrosphotography\/?hl=en\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Albert Dros<\/a> may have captured one of the coolest photos of yesterday\u2019s total solar eclipse in Chile. In addition to a few striking photos of a his model, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/globart_photo\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Bart Lablans<\/a>, standing next to the eclipse, he also managed to capture Bart \u201cholding\u201d it at totality. Take <em>that<\/em> clich\u00e9 Leaning Tower of Pisa photos.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was captured as part of a group organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamphototours.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Dream Photo Tours<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/natphoto.cl\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">NatPhoto<\/a>. But instead of using this rare opportunity to capture a standard photo of the eclipse, Dros tells PetaPixel that he decided to get creative. \u201cI decided to improvise a little bit on the spot and photograph a model doing some poses in front of the eclipse,\u201d he tells us. \u201cThis was possible as there was a hill nearby that fit the angle of the eclipse perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resulting images were captured using a 100-400mm lens and 1.4x teleconverter, which allowed him to compress the background sufficiently to capture \u201cboth the moon and the person at a nice size in the frame.\u201d After a little bit of additional cropping in post, here is what he ended up with:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Albert Dros may have captured one of the coolest photos of yesterday\u2019s total solar eclipse in Chile. In addition to a few striking photos of a his model, Bart Lablans, standing next to the eclipse, he also managed to capture Bart \u201cholding\u201d it at totality. Take that clich\u00e9 Leaning Tower of Pisa photos. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}