What happened to these images of a running deer?
Jan 10, 2021 10:10:35 #
DoriguzziPA wrote:
Come on now - we all know the truth here! The deer is being beamed up to the Enterprise!
Jan 10, 2021 10:11:35 #
Hydro47
Loc: NW Indiana
Thank you for all the help here. I am in AF-C and using 51 points. But just now I picked up my camera and I see that I have accidently knocked the focal point lock to the off position. I normally lock the AF on the center position. Just now it was three to the right and two down from center. That's the second time I've found the lock off. Must be happening when I pick the camera up off the passenger seat of the truck. I have two D7100s and have never had the lock knocked off. Low shutter speed was set earlier in the day when it was real cloudy. I came upon these deer unexpectedly and just shot what was set earlier. These four frames are in sequence. Three of them shot in the same second and one in the next. I was traveling south shooting toward the east. Mid afternoon would have the sun behind the camera and shadows would show up in the direction I am aiming.
Jan 10, 2021 10:30:51 #
Jan 10, 2021 10:43:41 #
Was it raining a bit? It looks exactly as if a droplet of rain landed on your lens as you were shooting, and the droplet itself acted as a lens, magnifying distant shrubbery overlaying the image of the deer with the secondary magnified image.
Jan 10, 2021 11:00:33 #
jerryc41 wrote:
This a rather rare condition. The deer is phasing into a parallel universe. I've seen that happen only once before - after a considerable amount of drinking.
This phasing explains why you cannot find something, even though you knew you left it on the table, etc. Things phase out, and then they phase back. I wind up buying replacements, rather than waiting for the item to return.
This phasing explains why you cannot find something, even though you knew you left it on the table, etc. Things phase out, and then they phase back. I wind up buying replacements, rather than waiting for the item to return.
Then the item returns....& you then have 2 of them!
Jan 10, 2021 11:06:58 #
Tea8 wrote:
Well I suppose that used to be called a double exp... (show quote)
Looks as though you took these through a window and it is the reflection off the glass as you moved the camera to follow the deer
Jan 10, 2021 11:14:39 #
tdozier3 wrote:
Looks as though you took these through a window and it is the reflection off the glass as you moved the camera to follow the deer
If that were the case, much more of the image than just the deer would have likely been overlaid with the brush background.
Jan 10, 2021 11:26:08 #
CO wrote:
That's exactly what it is. Those shadows are also being cast on the ground in places.
That's exactly what it is. Those shadows are also being cast on the ground in places.If they are shadows, why do they only show in irregular shaped and disconnected areas? I would go more with the corrupted card.
Jan 10, 2021 11:42:40 #
I'm stuck on why the shadows would be cast on the deer and ground but the deer has no shadow at all.
the shadows are very well defined and seem lighter on their tops, shadows don't do that
did i see 1/1/2021 on there? was your camera hung over?
the shadows are very well defined and seem lighter on their tops, shadows don't do that
did i see 1/1/2021 on there? was your camera hung over?
Jan 10, 2021 11:48:32 #
Jan 10, 2021 11:50:29 #
CO wrote:
Those same branch shadows can also be seen in parts of the field. I think there was a bright sky behind you that was casting light and shadows from branches. It's not very noticeable on the field because the snow is bright and overpowers other light sources. The deer is darker and the sky and branch shadows are more visible on the deer.
I don't think that it can be a shadow, it almost has to be a reflection, look at the color in the branches in this enlargement, shadows don't show color.
Jan 10, 2021 11:51:26 #
One idea is a reflection off a window. I don't see that the OP has commented on this question in the replies.
I'd also consider the effect being caused by mis-applied editing. The final image where the deer's cloaking transformation seems nearly complete, the EXIF reports LR classic v9. What did the image look like direct from the camera, i.e, the import step, and what does the edit history of this image show?
BTW, LR classic should be reporting v10.1 now in January 2021.
I'd also consider the effect being caused by mis-applied editing. The final image where the deer's cloaking transformation seems nearly complete, the EXIF reports LR classic v9. What did the image look like direct from the camera, i.e, the import step, and what does the edit history of this image show?
BTW, LR classic should be reporting v10.1 now in January 2021.
Jan 10, 2021 12:00:50 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
If they are shadows, why do they only show in irregular shaped and disconnected areas? I would go more with the corrupted card.
It is possible that the author is putting all of us to a test. He/She may well have created this composite and presented it to us as a puzzle to be solved. If that is so, then here is my explanation:
1. The author created four versions of bracken over lapping a running deer.
2.He/She layered them, changing the settings on each photo to show more and more of the lower layer.
3. He/She then isolated and copied each of the four images on four slightly different views of the same background, to give the impression of a panning camera.
Interesting series at any rate.
This explains the lack of shadow from the deer. It was never in the background images at all.
Jan 10, 2021 12:02:20 #
Hydro47 wrote:
I shoot lots of pictures of wildlife near my home in Indiana...Can anyone explain to me what happened here?
That's an interesting and mysterious visual phenomenon, for sure!
Hydro47, CO, Traveller_Jeff, and Longshadow all have interesting theories, and after studying the downloads I'll add my couple of pennies to the discussion.
I believe that they are reflected shadows, but shadows made by reflected light off of the snow/ice covering the field stubble. And that they are shadows of that stubble projected onto the deer, and not shadows of surrounding trees. Possibly aided or caused by the lens effect of frost or water droplets on that stubble.
Marshall
Jan 10, 2021 12:10:53 #
Traveller_Jeff wrote:
If that were the case, much more of the image than just the deer would have likely been overlaid with the brush background.
Not necessarily
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