Old school vs. New school power generation

BoblyBill · Jan 15, 2007

I've been photographing a lot of wind power driven machines lately... here's a small serries on the two... I'm hoping that here shortly that I would like to get both of these into the same picture. The first two on a day that I used 1600 iso because I had forgotten to change it back to 100 iso (stupid noob).

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myopia · Jan 15, 2007

5 + 7 are cool. great blue tone.

BoblyBill · Jan 15, 2007

Wow... that's the fastest that I have ever seen someone give a reply... Thanks a whole lot...

Ab$olut · Jan 15, 2007

very nice even though its 1600iso I cannot see much noise?

scrutiny1 · Jan 15, 2007

Cool series.

It's like...meaningful, dude?

BoblyBill · Jan 15, 2007

Ab$olut said:
very nice even though its 1600iso I cannot see much noise?

Noise Ninja 2.0 took care of that for the most part... I had to work on the first two to keep the sharpness but it helps that they are only 500x333. The modern ones were shot at 100 ISO... It was funny cause when I was shooting the first two I was very surprised that that I was shooting a 1/4000 shutter speed and like a 22 aperature.:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: That was the first time the I was maxing out the shutter speed and aperature on the other side of the spectum.:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

nealjpage · Jan 16, 2007

Where are the bullet holes in the Aeromotor? I've never seen one without them before :lol:

LaFoto · Jan 16, 2007

It would not surprise me if any of those companies who would want to advertise their new technologies might want to advertise with your photo 4 here!

The sky colour is nicest in the last, I think.

BoblyBill · Jan 16, 2007

none of you guys mind that I cut off the tips of the blades on two of them? Cause that drives me crazy... I had a hard time timing it right... I was freezing and did not have a wider lens the get the whole thing... Those blades are 100 ft. (about 20 m) long, and at the tips they were traveling about 300 mi/hr. (for you people using km... that's about 493 km/hr if I remember my conversion right).

LaFoto · Jan 16, 2007

Well, I like 4 and 7 best of your modern windmill photos, anyway, so I guess those two with the cropped off wings did not make it into my Top Two for a reason

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BoblyBill · Jan 16, 2007

LaFoto said:
Well, I like 4 and 7 best of your modern windmill photos, anyway, so I guess those two with the cropped off wings did not make it into my Top Two for a reason ... ....!!!

They would be mine if I didn't cut out the tips

... I'll go back some day with a wider lens... Maybe at sunset... When it's not -10 F. I had to keep the shutter speed really high cause I was shaking so bad...

(Ghastly) Krueger · Jan 16, 2007

Great series, Bill, uh Chris uhm...
No. 4 is abso-freakin'-lutely cool.
No. 5 is also very good, but yes, you should try to reshoot and get the blades complete... would improve it a lot.