can someone explain what happened? (Page 2): No, my husband & I were outside and took the picture.. only 3 of the many I took that night have the "extra" moon???

gayellen Loc: Arkansas

Hiskid.58 wrote:

I don't think it's lens flare. Lens flare is usually just bright with no detail, and it has the shape of your aperture. I copied it to my computer and was looking at it closer. It looks too "perfectly" round, and it has markings on it like the moon has. I think it may be a reflection of the moon on one of your elements and it exposed some how. You didn't take this through a window did you?

No, my husband & I were outside and took the picture.. only 3 of the many I took that night have the "extra" moon???

gayellen Loc: Arkansas

emmyweez wrote:

Have you had that "spot" on pictures before? It's the color of it that has me intrigued!

No, many pictures taken before of the same moon and no "extra" then 3 shots with it.. 14 pics after no second moon in those???

gayellen Loc: Arkansas

sinatraman wrote:

the more i look at your photos the more i actualy like the green dot. I being slow of brain finaly caught the shilouettes of the trees in the foreground. if you could ligten up the photos so that the shillouettes would be more distinct it would improve the impact tremendously

Here is one I took a little earlier in the evening.. How does this one look?

brucew29 Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio

The second moon image that you see in the photograph is similar to looking through a double pane window and you see two reflections of yourself... one reflection from the 1st window pane and a second reflection, usually dimmer, from the second window pane. It is similar with multi-elements lenses... a reflection from one of the multi-lens surfaces was bright enough to record a second dimmer reflection image of the moon on the photograph. This phenomena is called lens flare. Special lens coatings, which adds cost to the lens construction, can reduce this phenomena.

gayellen Loc: Arkansas

gaye mgough wrote:

sinatraman wrote:

the more i look at your photos the more i actualy like the green dot. I being slow of brain finaly caught the shilouettes of the trees in the foreground. if you could ligten up the photos so that the shillouettes would be more distinct it would improve the impact tremendously

Here is one I took a little earlier in the evening.. How does this one look?

This one is better than the last one..

emmyweez Loc: Niceville, Florida

The ones with the spot are great, try to edit the spot out and lighten the branches a tad. Great pics, love ones like these with the unexplainable floating in the foreground!!! I guess everything has a logical explanation though!

emmyweez Loc: Niceville, Florida

gaye mgough wrote:

emmyweez wrote:

Have you had that "spot" on pictures before? It's the color of it that has me intrigued!

No, many pictures taken before of the same moon and no "extra" then 3 shots with it.. 14 pics after no second moon in those???

Spooky!!!

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

starting to believe my death star theory now? its a conspiriacy man. George Lucas is in on it, star wars isn't fiction its a prophecy of things to come :lol: 8-) :idea: okay no more coffe for me, ill judst wait quietly till the men with the butterfly nets come to take me away. the shot where you can see the shilloute of the trees is much better.

mommy115 Loc: California

That certainly looks like the moon to me. Maybe it is made of green cheese just like they used to say!

raghavnk

Hiskid.58 wrote:

I don't think it's lens flare. Lens flare is usually just bright with no detail, and it has the shape of your aperture. I copied it to my computer and was looking at it closer. It looks too "perfectly" round, and it has markings on it like the moon has. I think it may be a reflection of the moon on one of your elements and it exposed some how. You didn't take this through a window did you?

There is just no question about it that it is only lens flare. Here are two examples. First one was a decent exposure of a solar eclipse on Jan 15th 2010 in South India. After several trials of reducing the exposure I got the second one.

pcmann Loc: Fort Worth, TX

I had the same thing happen when I took a pic of the moon, I removed my IR filter and it disappeared. The lens focused on the reflection of the moon and not the moon itself. Here are my before and after.

jant

just color the 2nd one one white and show nasa!

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

"Thats no moon its a space station" obi wan kenobi

photophly Loc: Old Bridge NJ

The second moon is a reflection in the lens.Most lenses are multi layered and the light caught on one as it was bounced from one to the other