energie

[george013]

Wind energie, ready to connect. With converting lines.



George

PS.
Picasa doesn't show the exif anymore. For those who wants to know
D700
ISO 200
1/30
f20
35mm
stiff neck

[NorthernFocus]

Very interesting comp. And the sense of motion. Nicely done.

[Ziggy]

Wind turbine? Like the POV.

[Shadowman]

Nice concept.

[Dave Humphries]

Good POV George - just a shame about the photo-sensor (or whatever it is).

While it does add foreground interest and hence depth to the image, I think the seam in the tower achieves that.

If mine, I'd be tempted to try a version with it cloned out.

Or go back and re-shoot another day when the wind is from a different direction so you can get the shot without it (from another side). That said, ideally you'd also want the wispy cloud to be in rough alignment with the blades, as here.

HTH, Dave

[george013]

Good POV George - just a shame about the photo-sensor (or whatever it is).

While it does add foreground interest and hence depth to the image, I think the seam in the tower achieves that.

If mine, I'd be tempted to try a version with it cloned out.

Or go back and re-shoot another day when the wind is from a different direction so you can get the shot without it (from another side). That said, ideally you'd also want the wispy cloud to be in rough alignment with the blades, as here.

HTH, Dave

That's a distribution or connection box. I don't know the english word for it. That's why "ready to connect". To me it's the essential part of the image. Wind, long shutterspeed, and enrgie, the distribution box.
I also made several images with high shutterspeed. I was more interested in the shape of the wings.

George

[IzzieK]

You meant that is already off the ground? Is this the reason for the stiff neck in your EXIF...Very funny George...

[bnnrcn]

Nice image I too would clone the black thing if it wasn't an important part of the system.

[george013]

I don't know why so many people are keen on cloning. I try to be a photographer, not a painter.
In many photo competitions cloning is a first degree crime. World Press Photo has removed nominated photo's when they found out cloning was used. As a photographer I registrate.
George

[Dave Humphries]

I don't know why so many people are keen on cloning. I try to be a photographer, not a painter.
In many photo competitions cloning is a first degree crime. World Press Photo has removed nominated photo's when they found out cloning was used. As a photographer I registrate.

Well George, I think it all depends upon the purpose of the image and the sensibilities of the photographer.

If you don't want to clone, then don't. That's your choice, which you have now enlightened us with.

As you acknowledge, painters often do it, so why not photographers now the tools are so easily available to us.

Others, myself included, adopt a more practical approach to our photography.

Sure; If the image is supposed to be a documentary image, cloning has no place.
Same goes for any competition entry where the rules forbid it.

If the image is intended to be art, on almost any level, then surely cloning is as valid as any other technique applied at the time of exposure or in post processing.

If some small aspect of the captured scene 'spoils' an otherwise beautiful composition, why not do something about it?
At time of capture that might involve removing a piece of litter.

Tell me, and be honest; if a bird had flown through that shot (above or below the blades!) just as the shutter released, what would you have done about it?
Shoot again if you noticed at the time?
Delete the shot if you hadn't and only had the one exposure?
Clone it out?

Just my thoughts, Dave


PS: I'm pretty certain that junction box thingy has nothing to do with extracting power from the wind turbine, so I do not see it as an essential part of the structure (and hence image), but if you do, that's fine.

[george013]

Tell me, and be honest; if a bird had flown through that shot (above or below the blades!) just as the shutter released, what would you have done about it?
Shoot again if you noticed at the time?
Delete the shot if you hadn't and only had the one exposure?
Clone it out?

I probably would have loved it. A bird fits perfectly in that environment.
When shooting in the street I often wait for somebody coming in the frame.

PS: I'm pretty certain that junction box thingy has nothing to do with extracting power from the wind turbine, so I do not see it as an essential part of the structure (and hence image), but if you do, that's fine.

I'm pretty certain too. But it is a junction box as used in houses. Sometime there is something in it, fuses, switch or what ever they like.

George