Maurice Bakley was chaperoning an eclipse watch party at his son\u2019s elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, when he took this photograph. As he had arrived early to fit his iPhone to a tripod to capture a time-lapse of the event (with the help of a monocular and\u00a0a\u00a0solar filter), he reached for his iPad for this shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys in the photo, one of whom is my son, are part of a\u00a0tight group of friends. They\u2019ve known each other since kindergarten\u00a0through their bilingual Spanish immersion school,\u201d Bakley says. \u201cThey were\u00a0eight and nine years old at the time, and none of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the kids were sitting cross-legged on\u00a0the ground, Bakley made sure to get down\u00a0to\u00a0their level for\u00a0this shot. \u201cA top-down angle wouldn\u2019t have conveyed the same\u00a0intimacy,\u201d he says. \u201cI approach mobile photography in the same way that I used to approach SLR photography, which includes being intentional in both the capture and the edit.\u201d<\/p>\n
When editing, Bakley applied a\u00a0film-like colour\u00a0grading, and a touch of blur to the background to focus attention on the boys. He\u00a0also opted for a\u00a0square crop. \u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t crop in that way often,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it suited this composition, lending a\u00a0more timeless, nostalgic feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maurice Bakley was chaperoning an eclipse watch party at his son\u2019s elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-917105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}