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Windmill Cutting Cheese

Windmill Cutting Cheese
Windmill Cutting Cheese

Windmill Cutting Cheese

It’s a Moon Monday ! as this posts.

Narrowly avoiding disaster, I talked the Windmill from cutting into that cheese… Save the moon yet again. GOOD thing I’m standing up wind..👀

“Sneaky Pete”the Windmill here provides a perspective regardless of his intent to photo-bomb this moon capture. I have no control over his actions. He just likes the attention. He and his bigger older brother “Re Pete” live and work here on ranch. They seem to work their way into my landscapes way higher than the statistical average compared to other ranch creatures. 😜😜😀 Windmill Weekday Windmill Junkies Unite : 🤘

Photographic Musings:

Manual Mode Phobia: (You know who you are) ….📸

Close / Far perspectives are a complex photographic challenge for all of you. An automatic setting on your camera is not going to do this image.

I’ve gone through the basics a few times and will entertain questions below for photographic solutions to your working on manual mode aversion. (Kind of like fear of swimming). You just have to jump in and turn that top dial to M. Then you figure out which control wheel controls each of the three settings you change in manual mode. ISO (Camera Sensitivity), f-stop (size of the aperture/pupil in the lens), finally Shutter Speed.

You only need to understand those three things to run on Manual mode. Their relationship to each other and how messing with one, requires you to mess with the others a tad to compensate the amount of light coming into the camera. Your riding a three way light teeter totter trying to balance those settings.

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana Borderlands (Wyotana)

Windmill Cutting Cheese

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Moon Leaning in for a Haircut

Moon Leaning in for a Haircut
Moon Leaning in for a Haircut

In a rare moment of personal grooming, I caught the Moon Leaning in for a Trim on “Sneaky Petes” rapidly spinning blades. Talk about cutting cheese!!📸

Photographers notes: I’m illuminating “Sneaky Pete” the photobombing Windmill with the LED lightbar of my UTV. It was pitch black out but for the lightly veiled moon. The blur is both Wyotana wind and long exposure time. Only a veiled moon will work for this kind of shot. An un-encumbered moon is too bright for our cameras limited dynamic range to resolve the difference. Also, distance from the terrestrial object is your friend. This is a 200 yards out shot on the windmill…a bit further for the moon… Park Rig and start walking back and turn up your fstop for focal depth lolol. Tripod…

If your new to my “world”…. “Sneaky Pete” is a years long narrative of mine. He’s quite the fellow/character and his brother windmill here on the ranch….”Re Pete” are both always photobombing my landscapes. I have no control over their actions but I snuck up on “Sneaky” for this one 🤣 His second job as a barber and all that …… He’s (wait for it) ………….. “Moonlighting” for this job 😎

Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.