What caused that cloudy band thrugh this photo (Page 2): Yes indeed! This is a ray of light coming through a cloud. After a storm these can be very effective in pictures.

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Yes indeed! This is a ray of light coming through a cloud. After a storm these can be very effective in pictures.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

katatl wrote:

It was a cloudy day; no direct sunlight. I was using a Canon Powershot G7x.

Looks like it may have been an odd internal reflection off the shutter. The "blur's" angle is diagonal from corner to corner but the blur is missing from each corner. The blur is exact the same thickness the full length where it occurs. It looks like the shutter speed might have been about 1/500 or maybe faster. It seems the only logic possibility given no other shots before or after displays the issue.

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

wdross wrote:

Looks like it may have been an odd internal reflection off the shutter. The "blur's" angle is diagonal from corner to corner but the blur is missing from each corner. The blur is exact the same thickness the full length where it occurs. It looks like the shutter speed might have been about 1/500 or maybe faster. It seems the only logic possibility given no other shots before or after displays the issue.

That's a possibility or reflection on one of the internal lens elements. When I said it was a crepuscular ray I only meant that it was coming from the sun overhead, not something on the lens or something in front of the lens.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

mflowe wrote:

That's a possibility or reflection on one of the internal lens elements. When I said it was a crepuscular ray I only meant that it was coming from the sun overhead, not something on the lens or something in front of the lens.

I agree. At first I thought Linda's thoughts might be accurate, but I could not explain the missing blur for the corners for something on or in front of the lens. Just one of those weird internal reflection that seem to occur very rarely (thank God!).