What will the solar eclipse be like in Baton Rouge on Aug21?

I'm heading to Nashville for it. Should be amazing.

I'm headed up to the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois for it.

It will be raining in BR. Book it

Damn, I'll be in KC 4 days before and Seattle 2 days after.

If you have filters (and they're cheap, you should get one) you can see the effect but with bare eyes 90% blockage doesn't look that noticeable. The Sun is just so bright that it's hard to tell.

A full eclipse is another matter. It doesn't get completely dark but the sky does get dimmer for a couple of minutes.

I've seen two annular eclipses, the one a few years ago in Bryce Canyon N.P. and (as a kid) the one in LA back in the 80's I think. My dad was driving us along Airline Hwy. looking for the right place to stop when suddenly we saw people with telescopes strung in a line along an open field, figured we were in the right place.

The scopes of course were specially equipped with filters to do solar photography. If you were to look through one you'd go blind immediately.

Damn I picked a good time to be in Kauai

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Damn I picked a good time to be in Kauai

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Unless I'm reading the map wrong, you probably won't be able to see it very well from there.

what type of filter would you need on your lens?

I'm hoping to get to SC for this one and would like to get some pics with my canon.

You want at bare minimum something that gives you 10 stops of light reduction. Something that low, I wouldn't use live view, and not take rapid fire photos, and ONLY shoot at f/22.

You want to get something more in the range of 15-20 stops for unrestricted use. If getting a filter in your size is too expensive, you can stack ND filters if you have them already to get the number you need. Unless you are going really crazy with it, vingetting won't be a problem with the focal length you will be using.

Also, be aware that the filter is ONLY for partial eclipses. You want to be stepped off for pictures in totality.

Set an alarm to warn you of the approaching horizon so you aren't looking in the viewfinder when totality begins to end.

And don't forget to smell the roses. Too many photographers forget to experience the event in trying to capture a piece of it.

I'm debating on the final details, but I think I'm only going to try for two shots: a composite mixing corona at various solar radai, and a wide angle shot showing the eclipse with a foreground element backdropped by the uniform horizon "sunset".

ETA: Stay away from infrared and alpha hydrogen spectral filters. Both are expensive, and not what you really need. Especially the hydrogen filter. You can take amazing shots with it, but you need a modified camera removing the internal infrared filter to use it