1y ago

That's No Moon

Male Eastern Screech-Owl in the moonlight. Seriously, only moonlight, 2.5 second exposure. Dane County, WI 2024-04-23, 3:00 am.

How does anyone in Wisconsin sleep if that's the moon at 3am??? 😧

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That's nuts! I wonder if it was a full moon or if Wisconsin is just like that
- Exactly! I saw the picture and thought it was an ok pic, but then I read the caption and that really elevated it to something impressive. This one may be a little more superbphotographer!
  
  Now I need to see if that's a community here lol (I almost wrote subreddit lmao)
Wait, this was a moonlight picture!? That's nuts. I would need super blackout shades, I'm super light sensitive.
Also a great photo.
- Username checks out 😜
  I didn't know you could get that much light even with a longer exposure. I don't know much about photography, but it sounded impressive to me.
  
  Well yes. There's a reason I'm just tired all the time lol.
  But yeah, even with night vision or whatever equivalent it is this is close to pretty much being a day time picture. There's none of the usual night picture markers.
Beautiful
- I think the lighting lends a nice smoothing filter style effect to the owl. It looks extra soft.

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