Windy Day

[Michael Lloyd]

Windy Day

1Ds MKIII manual
TS-E24mm f3.5L II with about 8 stops of ND filter

ISO 50
1/6 sec f8

[Paul Lagasi]

You know I've always wanted to try this, every time I pass one of these wind turbines....good work, you can almost get a sense of motion in the clouds and wings...nice capture

[Cheryl Slechta]

Michael, I think the perspective works great to show just how massive these turbines are. I love the sense of motion in the clouds and blades. B&W works perfectly for the capture.

[Michael Lloyd]

Paul- I have one of these taken at night. It was lit be a 1/4 - 1/2 moon. It suffers a little from pointing a wide angle lens up. If I can post it I will. Once I started playing around with ND filters I knew I would try shooting one during the day. I'll probably try again. Sometimes they just yell out - Shoot me! I took a number of different shots at different shutter speeds. 1/6th was at the faster end and it had enough detail that I liked it the best.

Cheryl- Thank you. Converting to B&W definitely helped this image

Here's the night shot. I actually planned this shot for during a trip to Bosque. It was taken sometime around or after midnight in the middle of nothing but wind turbines. I was so focused on getting the shot that I almost ran out of fuel before I got to town and found and open gas station. When I pulled up to the turbine the low fuel warning went off. I figured that I may as well take the shot and worry about fuel when I left. And boy did I worry about fuel when I left! The image suffers from "wide angle pointed up perspective disease" and I have another that I shot in portrait mode so the top isn't cut off but I like the way this one shows all of the background turbines

[Maureen Allen]

Both images are wonderful Michael, but I'm particularly struck by the second one with the expanse of wind turbines and the soft glow on the horizon. I remember flying over miles of these and watching them out the window on my way to Denver a couple of years ago. Amazing.

[Michael Lloyd]

Thank you Maureen. You should hear them. Each time a blade comes around it makes a very distinctive sound. Especially when you are standing directly under it.

[denise ippolito]

Michael, I like the second one also, the additional wind turbines and the added interest near the horizon add to this. I may have liked to have seen more of the blades.