Tell her she's a party pooper and not understanding of the true needs of
an artist. That should calm her down. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/7/2012 3:25 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> I had some success Saturday evening. The shot I've been trying for
> years to get remains unshot. There were low clouds to the east and to
> the west. The sun disappeared about 10 minutes before sunset, so I
> lost the direct sunlight on my subject (a wind turbine). Also, for my
> desired shot, I had to be miles away from it. The moon didn't start
> coming through the clouds until about 25 minutes after moonrise.
>
> I will be doing an extensive write-up about this on www.zone-10.com,
> but in a nutshell here is what happened:
>
> 1. I used TPE to plot out my time and location for the intercept point
> for the moonrise. Based on the plot lines, I figured out seven
> possible locations.
>
> 2. As evening approached, we drove to the farthest desired spot and
> found that the terrain (rolling hills of Iowa) proved to be quite the
> problem. Backing up to the south east, I found that almost all of the
> shooting locations were not going to work. Finally, I found one, but
> had to drive up to a farmhouse on the top of a hill. No answer when I
> knocked on the door, but figured I'll take my liberties anyway, and
> talk myself out of the business end of a shotgun. No shotgun appeared,
> but neither did the moon.
>
> 3. As the moon rose above my subject and was still hidden, there was
> no reason to stay there. So, the idea then is to pursue alternative
> compositions. As the moon is rising, you need to get closer to the
> subject. So, off we go to the other crossings as defined by TPE,
> taking into account that as the moon is rising, I'm having to move a
> little more to the east.
>
> 4. Finally, we end up at the closest interesection to the wind
> turbine. We set there for a few minutes and the moon finally starts to
> shine through the clouds. I grab the camera/tripod and head on off
> down the road getting a composition.
>
> 5. While I'm trotting down the road, the sherriff stops to check on my
> wife, who is sitting in the car, but I had accidently parked next to
> the stopsign of some remote country road. Go figure. Anyway, while she
> is dealing with him, I'm photographing the moon.
>
> 6. As the moon was rising, I had to keep moving quickly to the east
> along the road. I'd take a couple shots and then relocate about fifty
> feet, shoot a couple and relocate... I did this until the moon cleared
> the tower. Show over.
>
> End result? I got two pictures that are quite satisfactory, and a
> couple hundred duds. That's the nature of photographing things that
> move in very bad light. A few of you who are FB friends have already
> seen tiny versions of these pictures.
>
> The moral of the story is to always have a primary location and a set
> of backup locations to shoot from. If you are photographing a subject
> with the moonrise coming up behind it, start out at your farthest
> point and work closer.
>
> SWMBO wasn't too pleased about the police episode.
>
> AG
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