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\u2018The Shadow Between\u2019 by Angel Fux. Not only does it capture the total solar eclipse, but also the transition from day to night, ending in the Perseid meteor shower.<\/p>\n \u2018The Shadow Between\u2019 by Angel Fux. Not only does it capture the total solar eclipse, but also the transition from day to night, ending in the Perseid meteor shower.<\/p>\n
A photographer spent the past two years dreaming of a special image of the total solar eclipse<\/a> that took place in Spain this summer. She has finally completed her masterful work. <\/p>\n Angel Fux not only spent months preparing technically for the ambitious project, but she also spent an estimated 15 hours in photo-editing software perfecting the image. <\/p>\n She calls it The Shadow Between. It\u2019s a composite image of multiple panoramas that Fux captured on top of a mountain called Pico Gilbo in Ria\u00f1o, Spain, on August 12. <\/p>\n \u201cI had never seen nor captured a total solar eclipse, but I\u2019ve been more and more drawn to celestial phenomena<\/a> and depicting them in a creative way over the years,\u201d Fux tells PetaPixel. <\/p>\n \u201cSo this eclipse became very important to me. Around a year prior to the event, I started looking for a landscape that I felt drawn to (mountains) and that was in Spain on the path of totality.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I saw this location and saw it aligned with the eclipse, I was over the moon and knew this would be where the project would take place. So I had the vision of this image for over a year before it came to fruition,\u201d she adds. <\/p>\n The image doesn\u2019t just show the path of the eclipse, but it also captures the passage of time. Day turns into night, sunset turns into twilight, the sky makes way for the stars. But achieving this effect was exceptionally complicated. <\/p>\n Writing on her website<\/a>, Fux explains that once she had picked her location in the mountains, which involved scrambling to the summit, she embarked on making the ambitious image that she herself calls a \u201ccreative interpretation\u201d of the solar eclipse. <\/p>\n Fux used a Nikon Z8<\/a> with a 400mm lens attached to capture the close-up sequence of the eclipse, while another setup was capturing the wider environment. \u201cWe were also filming the eclipse at 600mm at the same time,\u201d she adds. <\/p>\n The \u201cwe\u201d that Fux refers to is filmmaker Prince Berkoh, who was making a short film with her. In collaboration with Nikon, the pair created a deeply evocative piece that touches on exactly what a solar eclipse means and, more widely, what humanity\u2019s place is in the Universe. <\/p>\n \u201cThe sky has always been the one thing too large to ignore, and too precise to be accidental,\u201d Fux says in the video above. \u201cStars that return on schedule, planets that trace the same arc year after year, and a Moon that fits perfectly over a Sun 400 times its size. That alignment has never stopped feeling like a message.\u201d <\/p>\n As well as shooting the solar eclipse, Fux also shot the landscape continuously, creating seven panoramas that became the foundation of the final artwork. The panoramas capture the sweeping vista through the evening, continuing into darkness, and eventually the following morning. <\/p>\n The solar eclipse also happened to coincide with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower; shooting stars and bright galaxies are visible on the right-hand side of the image. <\/p>\n A Mammoth Post-Processing Job<\/p>\n After capturing all of her image data, it was time for Fux to begin the editing process. <\/p>\n \u201cCombining seven panoramas captured under radically different light turned into one of the most complicated post-processing exercises I\u2019ve ever undertaken,\u201d says Fux. <\/p>\n Her first plan was to stack the individual panels into Photoshop, align them, and eventually stitch them together in PTGui. But it was that latter part that tripped her up. \u201cI struggled to get the first panorama to stitch exactly the way I wanted,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n Fux then tried the opposite approach: she stitched each of the seven panoramas independently, then tried to align the seven completed panoramas on top of each other in Photoshop.<\/p>\n But that also didn\u2019t work well enough because each independent panorama stitch introduced slightly different projection, distortion, and positioning.<\/p>\n Breakthrough<\/p>\n So Fux did something outside of the box: instead of making seven individual panoramas and then blending them, she constructed a new panorama using panels from different moments of the day.<\/p>\n \u201cEffectively, I was asking the panorama software to stitch photographs that were progressively moving through completely different colors and illumination,\u201d she explains, noting that she didn\u2019t think it would work. <\/p>\n \u201cSome frames were captured before sunset. Others were moving towards darkness. Others belonged to completely different light altogether.\u201d <\/p>\n Against all odds, it worked. And now Fux had a starting point to start aggressively masking in Photoshop. <\/p>\n \u201cThe challenge wasn\u2019t simply to hide seams between photographs,\u201d she says. \u201cI was trying to make radically different states of light and color coexist inside one coherent landscape.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cI wanted the viewer to be able to move through the image and feel that something was changing \u2014 to recognize that the landscape at one side doesn\u2019t belong to quite the same moment as the landscape at the other \u2014 without the photograph breaking apart into seven separate sections.\u201d <\/p>\n Masks were refined, transitions were rebuilt, color relationships in neighboring sections were changed, and tweaks had to be made to the alignments to complete the showpiece. <\/p>\n The Shadow Between is available as a limited edition print<\/a> from Fux\u2019s website. More of Fux\u2019s work can be found on her website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n Image creditsPhotographs by Angel Fux<\/p>\n \n\tAffiliate Disclosure![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790791570_341_maxresdefault.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe final image captures the transformation of time, light, and color across an landscape experiencing an eclipse.<\/p>\n
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