well you know we do live in an age right now where everything is pretty much documented or posted on social media so many of you might be hoping to get a perfect picture of today's Eclipse but just like your eyes you need to protect your camera or your smartphone as well CBS News Philadelphia's Jasmine pay is at unique photo in Old City right now with more on how to capture the best picture today without hurting your eyes or your camera for that matter hi there Jasmine good morning Natasha that'
s right we've been talking all morning about the import of not looking directly at the solar eclipse and if you want to capture that moment and save it for later this is the perfect place to figure out how to do that now we're at Unique Photo here in Old City as you mentioned and joining me Alexander Sweetwood the president here now Alexander has this really cool setup that pretty much goes through every way we could possibly see the eclipse and capture that moment so first we want to go with th
e smart phone since that's what most people will probably be using to capture it and you have a little demonstration first tell us how how exactly people can do that and why it's so important for them to remember to not look directly at the sun while taking that picture thank you very much yeah I mentioned that to you multiple times I don't want anyone looking directly at the Sun and that's why solar eclipse glasses which are are very simple that are ISO certified will block essentially all of t
he light coming through so if you put those glasses on in a situation where there is no sun uh you'll see it so this is a pretty good indicator of how to how to see uh what's going on here with the Sun as the sun comes through through uh the glasses pretty much will block pretty much will block that light so um that's where we're really looking at it now people using a smartphone to take pictures of the solo Eclipse I recommend taking pictures of their family and friends uh watching the eclipse
but if you're going to use your phone do not look directly the Sun and you can attempt to do it with your phone and on an iPhone the best results you're going to achieve are by holding the phone up blocking the Sun and if you tap on the phone once you see a little square you then want to push and hold on that square until you get like an autofocus Auto exposure lock we did it on your phone it wasn't long enough you do it safely right and then of course don't forget the glasses so you can attempt
to put the glasses over the lens of the camera and there's multiple lenses on a lot of the cameras so you want to make sure you're using the correct lens okay prior to doing that okay great and we will definitely get more into that in our 9:30 half hour on CBS News Philadelphia streaming but as as Alexander mentioned there is a way to do this correctly as far as capturing that moment whether on your iPhone or we as we have coming up on a camera so Natasha I'll send it back to you in the studio
all right for now good advice thank thank you Jasmine there are several places that you can go to watch today's Eclipse Morris AR burum in Chestnut Hill is hosting an event the Philadelphia Independence Visitor Center also inviting folks to view the eclipse at top the Liberty View Terrace and Villanova University is hosting an oncampus viewing party we've got more events and more information go to our website CBS philadelphia.com
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