Here in Southern California, we’ll be getting a 69 percent eclipse at 10:21 am tomorrow. So I figured I should take out my camera and practice today, just to see how hard it really is. And it turns out that all this solar filter stuff is nonsense! I just pointed my camera at the sky and pushed the shutter:
![](https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blog_sun_2017_08_17.jpg)
I could barely even see the sun behind all the clouds. What’s all the fuss about?