What caused that cloudy band thrugh this photo.
Dec 16, 2019 11:39:21 #
Dec 16, 2019 11:45:13 #
katatl wrote:
It was a cloudy day; no direct sunlight. I was using a Canon Powershot G7x.
I say some sort of smear on the lens (it's too defined for a glare). Maybe a cracked filter?
Dec 16, 2019 11:56:46 #
speters wrote:
That would be easy to test (take another shot) or confirm by inspection of the camera. Maybe a cracked filter?
Katati, is it on just this one picture or several? Can you see anything on the front of your lens? Looks a bit like a very close airborne element such as spider silk.
Dec 16, 2019 11:59:11 #
I’m sure it’s a smudge on the lens. Clean it off. enough light coming from the side that it would have lit that. I doubt you would have a filter on that kind of a camera ?
Dec 16, 2019 12:11:39 #
Dec 16, 2019 12:41:45 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
That would be easy to test (take another shot) or confirm by inspection of the camera.
Katati, is it on just this one picture or several? Can you see anything on the front of your lens? Looks a bit like a very close airborne element such as spider silk.
Katati, is it on just this one picture or several? Can you see anything on the front of your lens? Looks a bit like a very close airborne element such as spider silk.
It was only on that shot. Here's are pics taken right after the cloudy one. One is looking back down the trail, showing where I was standing when I took the offending photo. I was past the tree on the right and there is really nothing there for a spider silk to hang from. (And believe me, I was as far away from the edge as I could get and still get the pic.)
Dec 16, 2019 12:42:41 #
Nicholas DeSciose wrote:
I’m sure it’s a smudge on the lens. Clean it off. enough light coming from the side that it would have lit that. I doubt you would have a filter on that kind of a camera ?
No filter and no smudge. The blur doesn't show on any photos taken at the same time.
Dec 16, 2019 12:43:28 #
gwytlutlu wrote:
trail guardians moving to get out of the photo?
I'm going with your explanation. Maybe they were jumping into the shot.
Dec 16, 2019 13:57:27 #
katatl wrote:
I have seen long strands of spider silk floating around, nowhere near trees etc.It was only on that shot. Here's are pics taken right after the cloudy one. One is looking back down the trail, showing where I was standing when I took the offending photo. I was past the tree on the right and there is really nothing there for a spider silk to hang from. (And believe me, I was as far away from the edge as I could get and still get the pic.)
But OK, now I am going with one of your own hairs unmoored
Dec 17, 2019 06:16:37 #
Judging by photo #3, you were practically in the clouds at that elevation. I wonder if that's a sun pillar that formed.
Dec 17, 2019 06:40:53 #
AZNikon
Loc: Mesa, AZ
CO wrote:
Judging by photo #3, you were practically in the clouds at that elevation. I wonder if that's a sun pillar that formed.
I think you've got something with this idea.
Dec 17, 2019 06:41:30 #
Hamltnblue
Loc: Springfield PA
Looks like a hair or similar might have been on the lens.
I wouldn’t worry about it if it’s gone
I wouldn’t worry about it if it’s gone
Dec 17, 2019 07:42:55 #
"Beam me up, Scotty."
I think it had something to do with the light, as mentioned in CO's post.
I think it had something to do with the light, as mentioned in CO's post.
Dec 17, 2019 09:42:04 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
I have seen long strands of spider silk floating around, nowhere near trees etc.
But OK, now I am going with one of your own hairs unmoored
But OK, now I am going with one of your own hairs unmoored
That was exactly my thought when I first looked at the picture: a loose hair.
Reminded me of some photos my Dad took many, many years ago: his subject and himself separated by chicken wire. Photos taken with a lens a few inches from the wire showed the wire just like that blurred streak. In photos taken with the lens right against the wire, the wire had disappeared altogether.
Dad gave me an explanation for that, but hey, I was a teenager then, I don't recall the reason!
Dec 17, 2019 10:03:55 #
mflowe
Loc: Port Deposit, MD
katatl wrote:
It was a cloudy day; no direct sunlight. I was using a Canon Powershot G7x.
It's a crepuscular ray. I've had a singular one show up once in a while when the sun is overhead.
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