rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I think you've managed to capture a very fast deer. In fact, so fast that you managed to capture the deer as its mass transitions to energy.

I'd send these photos to Fermi Labs in Batavia, Il, and see if any of the physicists there have any interest.
--Bob

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Looks like the F stop somehow changed.
Note the focus on the trees in the rear in each picture.

Traveller_Jeff

Read my attempt at an explanation below. This may have been a test of our forensic skills.

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

Conditions that day were no precipitation. Window on the drivers side of my pickup was fully open when I shot. I obviously don't know what happened but if it was a drop on the lens, why did it only affect two frames out of about ten shots in the burst. My first thought looking at the picture in Lightroom was "Cool. That looks just like Mossy Oak Vertigo camo pattern". Memory card is a 64GB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC with maybe 10000 images on it's lifetime. Card is formatted in camera each time I download pictures. Usually 100 plus pics up to maybe 200 pics between downloads.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I'll guess just anomaly in the image save.

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

I have not posted much here. I attempted to post the raw images but apparently I can't do that. According to exif data, f stop and shutter speed were identical on all shots in the string. I'll gladly send the ,NEF files to anyone who'd like to see SOOC. I shoot raw only.
Just for the record, I'm running Lightroom on Windows 7 Professional on a desktop. LR won't update to latest version due to win 7 or so I was told when I attempted to update

sirvive Loc: South Louisiana

I agree with those who have suggested a reflection from the vehicle glass. The reflection from the lower right quadrant of the window starts to show as the camera is panned farthest to the right. The reflection is seen on the forground below the deer and on the darker (less exposed) deer.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

It looks like it could be reflections off of glass.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

It has to be, no one commented on the enlargement I posted so I will do so again but this time even bigger, if you download it and take a look you will see natural coloring in the branches on the deer, shadows don't do that but reflections do. I think the reason they are so prominent on the deer is because they don't show so well against a snowy background, I am thinking he had his window up and those trees are actually somewhere near his truck, that the reflection is not coming from the trees seen in the image.

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gener202002

This is just bizarre. At first I thought I had a possible explanation, but on continued examination I realized my explanation cannot be correct. Then I thought about the reflection explanations, but I have a problem with that as well as I will articulate in a minute.

My first thought was about how cameras are capturing photographs in a faster and faster time sequence, and I thought maybe this particular camera was shooting frames faster than the computer can process them, and one picture was bleeding into another before the computer processed them. But this cannot be the case as the images on the deer are not indicative of anything else in the immediate environment. So it is capturing images from some distance away from the deer.

That same realization is why I cannot fully accept the reflection idea. If it is a reflection, what is being reflected? The trees are in the background, and the background is too far away for tree branches to be reflected in this way.

The images on the deer are consistent with the overall scene of the photo. But the tree branches on the photo are images highly unlikely to be anywhere near the deer. The camera cannot be "seeing through the deer" as the images on the other side of the deer are not fully compatible with those images.

Now, one more strange thing. While the first two images do match for the most part, there is some very slight discoloration of the deer from photo one to two. It is not very noticeable, but the argument can be made. Not that it is not the same deer. It is, just with very slight modifications. The third image shows snow and branches on only the mid section of the deer. At least for the most part. In the fourth image, the deer seems to be disappearing, but even if quantum physics says that is possible, what is behind the deer is not consistent with the ground overall. That can't be the case.

Would be cool if these images could be sent to physicists and/or photoshop experts to see their analysis.

Dan De Ment Loc: Central Illinois

I would have to agree. Shadows seem to have interrupted the image.

Shoeless_Photographer Loc: Lexington

Beenthere

This might be a stupid answer, but I have recently been made aware of the necessity of using the fastest SD card your camera is capable of using. It may be, and I'm only speculating here, that slow processing capability may be overlapping your images. The other possibility is that there is something electronically amiss causing less that proper processing within the camera's electronics?? I suggest contacting a good tech service source (Nikon support) as they may have seen this before?

rfbeams Loc: Stanwood, Washington

Do you erase images or format your card after downloading your images?

CO

I see what you are saying about the natural coloring in the branches on the deer. That's very puzzling. A shadow would most likely be black.

It's not easy to see, but bright areas and branches can be seen on the ground in places also. That's why I thought it was from the sun behind the photographer. I thought it was similar to the effect created by using a gobo with a studio light in a studio setting.