why do my pictures look like this
Jun 16, 2014 19:30:37 #
What is the excessive light on the right side and bottom from, it is a Nikon cookpix s6300. Nikon calls is smear I thnk and says it is from excessive light on the lens but in this picture I do not think that is what caused this, anyone have any ideas about this?
Jun 16, 2014 19:42:27 #
I've never heard it called "smear" before. Lens flare would be more correct, Ellen. If the sun is able to directly shine on the front of your lens as you shoot, it will "go in" and "bounce around" inside your lens, degrading your image. The sun would NOT have to appear in your photo, just be able to shine on the front of the lens. Some people will use a lens-shade or lens-hood on their lens to combat this, or you can just shade the camera with your free hand as you shoot.
Jun 16, 2014 20:01:50 #
thanks, I am trying to think where the sun was, it was after noon the sun would have been past zenith on the way down, I was facing West I think in this picture, so why is the what ever it is, on the right side, since the sun would have been about in front of me somewhere, but with all the trees, how could sun do what you suggested? I am not sure but I sure don't always notice this is happening until I see it taken, sometimes I move around a little different angle will make it go away, other times I simply take a picture this is completely not good because it is all over it, very annoying and relative new thing it seems to me I must have been lucky before?
Jun 16, 2014 20:50:06 #
It look like the sun was on your right side at about 2 O'clock to you, and pretty high on the sky. Danilo Mentioned, I will also add in that it could also have a ting of water vapors, bouncing off the rays of the sun.
Jun 16, 2014 21:43:38 #
That would be about right timing wise, but could it really have shined that brightly to basically blur the image like that I have no idea what I should have done to avoid it!
Jun 17, 2014 07:29:28 #
Not that it blur them, it was the rare reflection anf your angle to it. I bet you ten minuets on one side or the other from the time you took the photo It wouldn't have happen.
Jun 17, 2014 10:45:05 #
Think of it this way, Ellen: You're in a dark room and someone comes in with a flashlight, it helps you to see things in the room. But then they shine it right in your eyes and everything's helter-skelter!.
You can predict when this will happen! With your camera hanging around your neck, if you can hold your hand up somewhere in front of you and make a shadow on the camera, you may encounter "lens flare". As I mentioned earlier, I will occasionally use my hand to shield the camera from the sun (outside of the picture area). Or sometimes you can get someone to do it for you as you shoot (offer them an Oreo cookie, or something).
When the sun "gets into your lens" like that, we call in non-image-forming-light, and must be avoided at all costs. The only light we want in our lens is the light reflecting from our subject! You must also be wary of a bright reflection from a car bumper, or windshield...the culprit is not always direct sun!
Ain't photography wonderful? :thumbup: :thumbup: Don't forget the Oreos!
You can predict when this will happen! With your camera hanging around your neck, if you can hold your hand up somewhere in front of you and make a shadow on the camera, you may encounter "lens flare". As I mentioned earlier, I will occasionally use my hand to shield the camera from the sun (outside of the picture area). Or sometimes you can get someone to do it for you as you shoot (offer them an Oreo cookie, or something).
When the sun "gets into your lens" like that, we call in non-image-forming-light, and must be avoided at all costs. The only light we want in our lens is the light reflecting from our subject! You must also be wary of a bright reflection from a car bumper, or windshield...the culprit is not always direct sun!
Ain't photography wonderful? :thumbup: :thumbup: Don't forget the Oreos!
Jun 17, 2014 10:46:34 #
But it happens so often and I can't for the life of me figure how to always notice it and move the camera to a different angle which sometimes will result in not getting the picture I want, this one was what I wanted, if I had moved it would not have been that picture, as to waiting, usually not an option I am on the move with my camera all the time.Thanks for trying to help maybe I will send it to nikon help and see if the can say anything useful, thanks again.
Jun 17, 2014 12:33:15 #
I have a question, were these in the Photo, or is it some kind of reflection. Lower right corner.
If not not mistaken, that has a plastic lens in the front. If it is that could be adding to you frustration.
If not not mistaken, that has a plastic lens in the front. If it is that could be adding to you frustration.
Jun 17, 2014 19:14:22 #
Mmm I have it in my hand, sometimes attached to my wrist, how do I tell I have this kind of light I really don't notice it until I look at the picture, and then it is too late!
Jun 17, 2014 19:32:18 #
I don't think I understand, I think the lense is glass,no I don't think the discoloration, white stuff what ever it is, was in the picture when I took it, I don't think is spray from the falls, it is almost certainly light!
Jun 17, 2014 19:39:24 #
YOu think that could be your hand, blocking part of the lens. I would have that kind of effect.
Jun 18, 2014 15:09:07 #
ellenb1964 wrote:
Mmm I have it in my hand, sometimes attached to my wrist....
If you carry it with your palm over the lens, condensation from the perspiration from your palm could cover parts of the lens, and it would have the sneaky habit of evaporating fairly quickly (so it would be gone when you check your lens for spray etc). Alternatively you might have condensation inside the lens that moves around and becomes visible only in certain situations.
Jun 18, 2014 17:24:35 #
No I don't carry it like that, it is on my wrist by the carry strap and I hold it at the ready, I am just about sure that I rarely have sweaty palm anyway, but the fact that near water the humidity is high and might be somehow responsible for this affect, is not impossible, and I am not sure the affect of humidity in the air and the sun at a certain angle, we are having high humidity everywhere this year I would send another really really bad picture with this problem but here doesn't seem to be a way to do that at this point, it was taken the other night after a rain, with the sun shining very brightly behind clouds and it nearly obliterated the picture.
Jun 18, 2014 17:26:33 #
I saw the rabbit as I came out the door and didn't see until later what the sun had done!
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