Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Tom Fox explains his camera techniques for snapping shots of the awe-inspiring celestial event.
Darkness falls on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge as the sun is covered by the moon during a solar eclipse, April 8, 2024.Editor’s note: The Dallas Morning News published many memorable photographs of the 2024 total solar eclipse in Dallas, but one image by Staff Photographer Tom Fox felt so immediately iconic that we devoted the entire front page of our April 9, 2024, print and digital editions to it. Here, we’ve asked Fox to describe what it took to get that photograph.
I say all this because I wasn’t planning to actually be at the camera to make any adjustments during the eclipse. I was assigned to photograph the scene on the adjacent Ron Kirk Pedestrian Bridge, and I would have to activate the stationary camera remotely at the time of totality. With gracious help from a newfound friend, we coordinated a test shot. Good to go.and security guard Nick Patel as I set up a 600 mm lens on a large-sensor, mirrorless camera to capture all of the detail.
Somehow it all came out, even the two wide-angle GoPro cameras I mounted on the bridge for a time-lapse.As darkness falls over downtown Dallas, people removed their glasses to observe the moon covering the sun on the Continental Bridge during a solar eclipse., Sr. Visual Journalist. Tom was part of a small team of photographers at The Dallas Morning News who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
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