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Photo by Libby Mullican, Mill Valley High School (Shawnee, Kansas) Kathy Hill Habiger, MJE, adviser, Mill Valley High School (Shawnee, Kansas) It’s hard to plan for something no one has ever experienced. We decided early on not to worry about photographing the actual eclipse. We left that to the professionals. We decided to extend our coverage beyond our high school to nearby elementary schools to have more photo opportunities and to showcase how the district was using the eclipse as a learning opportunity. We also tried to anticipate the camera settings for each point during the viewing. For example, it was supposed to be nearly night during totality so that was tricky to plan for.

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Photographing the 2024 eclipse

I covered my first eclipse in 1984 working for a local paper in Austin, Texas. I didn’t have a 300mm… Read more »