Interesting picture I took

[MesquiteMan]

Here is an interesting picture I took a while back. It is a picture of the windmill in my back yard. The catch is, the windmill was moving slowly and the "sun" in the pic is actually the moon. It was taken late one night with my Sony DSC H5 (not a DSLR) on a tripod.

 

[MesquiteMan]

Here is a pic of the moon, what I was originally after just for the heck of it.

Oh, and a pic of the back of my house at night.

 

[Dalecamino]

Great pictures Curtis. I like that camera :wink:

 

[Hosspen]

Those are great pictures Curtis!
I can't believe it, but even the moon is bigger out there in Texas : )
We don't have many real windmills around here, I guess that's why they are so interesting to us easterners. Maybe someday...we'll start using wind energy a lot more.

 

[TBCbushings]

How did you get the pic of the moon like that? I have been trying to take one like that but have not been able to.
Thanks,
Brian

 

[PaulDoug]

Great pictures, and I specially the wind mill. Believe it or not I took a picture of a wind mill just last Thursday. Mine is the other kind of wind mill. There are hundreds of these around here.

 

[Tanner]

A lot of good memories that picture brought back to me. Dug a hunting pit next to one off the reserve on my uncles farm. My cousin says he'll never tear that old windmill down. It was also a safe secluded area to take my wife when we were dating...to look at the moon and stars.

 

[bking0217]

Dang, Curtis. Even your photos are awesome.

 

[Akula]

The windmill pic is very cool Bud

 

[bitshird]

Nice photogrags Curtis!!!

 

[Padre]

That photo is a prize winner Curtis. And the moon pic is totally awesome.

Your house looks beautiful at night.....peaceful. How does it look in the day?

 

[Ligget]

Isin`t it facinating that your American moon looks just like our UK moon! LOL :biggrin::biggrin:

Great pictures Curtis, anyone who wants to photograph the moon should read this HERE.

 

[MesquiteMan]

But Mark, my moon photo has not been touched up in any way other than to crop! Of course his is nicer but hey, this was a first try with a fairly inexpensive camera.

 

[moke]

How did you get the pic of the moon like that? I have been trying to take one like that but have not been able to.
Thanks,
Brian

Brian---
When photographing the moon most people think because it is dark out, you need a long exposure, just remember the moon is sunlit...
Hope this helps...
Moke

 

[sbwertz]

When fuji 400 film first came out (back in the dark ages) I was given a roll by my local camera shop to evaluate. We were going out to San Xavier Mission on a photo shoot. We were packing up when I realized I had forgotten to shoot the 400. I loaded it up, but it was almost dark. We had a big full moon, so I decided to see just what the film could do. Set up the tripod and took some time exposures of the mission. By then it was completely dark.

Got home and developed the film, but didn't print it. Several weeks later I had a little solution left in my color print machine that I wanted to use up, so I grabbed the fuji stuff and printed it.

When it came out of the developer, I was upset to see that I had grabbed the wrong negatives. These were daylight pictures, and the lens must have been dirty because there were spots all over the blue sky. I wasn't until I was retouching out all the spots that I realized the shadows were all wrong. It was the fuji 400 film, shot by the full moon, and I was busily retouching out all the stars!

 

[ctubbs]

Curtis, your photo rivals what we shot in 63/65 with the new 12.5 inch reflector telescope at the university. full moons are hard to get detail on except for the rays and they only show up on the full moon. The great photos of the "full moon" that we see published are really composits of the first quarter and third quarter spliced together. Next time you get a chance to look at a photo of the full moon that does not show the rays around Tyco, look at the shadows in the craters. Hint; they go oposite directions. That was done in pre-Photoshop days too.

Your shots are outstanding. You captured the essence of the mill with the flare of light off the spokes of the mill and the cloud detail in the sky. The windmill speaks volumes about the history of the mid and plains west. Thank you for posting them.
Charles