How to Edit Your Total Solar Eclipse Photos

You've photographed the eclipse. Now what? Gabriel Biderman shares how to finesse the detail in your corona images in Lightroom Classic, as well as how he captured the photo in the first place.
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[@jaysonmcm5151]

Baily's beads are the bright white photons blasting through the valleys of the craters on the moon while the adjacent moon peaks block those photons creating the "beading effect" these are very brief in presentation since the moon is racing across the sun. They are seen in the time between the last of the diamond ring effect and totality just before 2nd contact. The order reverses at 3rd contact. The red prominences are Hydrogen plasma ejections.

[@BandH]

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[@briandietz8270]

Great information here, but what if your like most of us just laymen and women trying to capture some video and photographs and you end up with a bright center and corona? Is there any way to edit out these characteristics? Thank you, Brian

[@Jimmy_Cavallo]

🚨 Gabriel.. this was excellent, thank you very much. What about editing the diamond ring and Baily’s beads..?? I thought that I took multiple exposures of all of these stages because I was going to do an HDR merge in LR. I’ve never used PS

[@Max_g88]

Now on iPhone

[@djaa7]

Ooof. The red parts are just the corona, not Bailys Beads brother. The beads occur only during the time of the diamond ring, entering and exiting totality. You can't see them once total starts. The beads are the streaks of light that show the topography of the moon surface; its "mountains." I made the same error in 2017

[@capt.tommarks686]

HaHaHa... I was thinking the same thing...

[@stuartdavis798]

The red "flames" you refer to are prominences. They originate in the chromosphere and consist of material that ejected into the corona. They are caused by disturbances in the magnetic field.

[@djaa7]

@@stuartdavis798 yes. Is it wrong to say that is part of the corona?

[@stuartdavis798]

'm not a solar physicist, but, the red prominences are materials from the chromosphere that are ejected (may not be the right word) into the corona. The coronal materials have much different temperature and density properties that the prominences. And I would assume magnetic/electrical properties too. The prominences are much denser and much cooler. Hope that helped. Hope you have clear skies and enjoy the eclipse. As far as editing your photos, I've gone to two total eclipses and I used Photoshop. I'm not a talented editor and my photos looked pretty good. Remember to watch the eclipse and look around at the scenery, other people and see if you can see some stars during totality. Just Enjoy. @@djaa7

[@msmirandagirl]

@@djaa7Yup. Not part of the corona which is the sun's "atmosphere." The prominences are erupting off the sun's surface.

[@davidwatts4517]

Your 2017 candidate image and your 2024 image are the same image.

[@aholme2]

Awesome content! Small correction, the flames described in minute 6:22, they are coronal mass ejections to help you out in the next video you do on eclipses. Don't worry, even broadcasters said the same thing yesterday lol

[@traviswohlrab6194]

Not Baily's Beads and also not CMEs. Those are prominences (as described during an eclipse). Otherwise those are called filaments.

[@peterq9359]

Prominences***

[@ScottCanoni]

I had a very hard time following this and I didn't learn how to process my eclipse photos. Also, you incorrectly called the red/pink bursts as bailys beads and they are not that. Please do not spread misinformation. You should correct that.

[@jeremychurch5683]

Thank you for mentioning this, I was going to say the same thing. Not as helpful as I thought and actually contains some wrong information, kind of weird that this is put out from B&H photo. if you have somebody calling the solar flares Bailey beads instead, that's a big red flag that you shouldn't be taking advice on editing eclipse photos from that person.

[@joshfieldsphotography]

This is not a good example of what I expect from B&H. Hard to follow, kind of rambling, and the photographer is calling things by the wrong names. They are prominences, not Baily’s Beads.

[@michellehartsfield1342]

Agree, he's all over the place, I think poor planning of the video, or editing.

[@dirtywater5336]

I've seen many better tutorials than this. The fact that he didn't even mention doing an HDR in Lr to capture and retain detail in the inner corona is shameful. Bracket your images and HDR composite 2-4 images to maximize your corona detail

[@billboswell4509]

Also if you want to capture the Earth shine.