What happened to these images of a running deer? (Page 5): Its a cool effect! One could do that with lovely details and shadows with layer masks, etc., and enter it in a photo contest.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Its a cool effect! One could do that with lovely details and shadows with layer masks, etc., and enter it in a photo contest. Happy accidents...

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

No one needs the NEF. To export an 'original' JPEG, just go into the History view of the Develop module for the final image, click the step identified as "Import" at the timestamp of the import. This will undo changes made to clarity, contrast and other changes that LR wrote into the EXIF that indicate at least some editing of the image.

Then, export an full-resolution version of the JPEG. The current 1000-pixel wide version really prevents any assessment of the details, inviting the wild guesses presented so far.

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

Just for the record, I saw the "overlayed branches " on the last picture when I looked through the pictures while they were stiil on my camera. No editing at all. Of course this is on a very small screen. The other thing that just went through my mind with all the talk about windows is this...I was holding a camera with a 70-300 lens protruding out the open drivers side window of my truck. I see no chance for reflections there, but I was panning left to right to follow the deer. This would move the camera closer to the windshield with each progressive picture. Also, there are trees close to the road on the passenger side of my truck. If the passenger window was causing this, why does it only show up on the deers body?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Hydro47 wrote:

Just for the record, I saw the "overlayed bra... (show quote)

See the steps above. A full resolution, unedited image is worth more than 1,000 words and 42 crazy guesses.

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

Tree shadows! Or the deer have camo tattoos!

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

I've never done this before so I may have screwed it up. I went and loaded the same image from my backup on the other hard drive into LR and exported at full size. I had to enter 6000 X 4000 for size on export screen

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frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Hydro47 wrote:

I've never done this before so I may have screwed it up. I went and loaded the same image from my backup on the other hard drive into LR and exported at full size. I had to enter 6000 X 4000 for size on export screen

Is that high weeds between you and the deer, and you focused on some of the weeds. I've done that. And the deer looks a little out of focus to me.

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

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.

...or could be the Alien Predators pet deer...

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

Here's a screenshot of the pic in Nikon View NX showing focus point. I wasn't swinging as fast as the deer was running. Again, I posted 4 pictures and this "overlay " shows on 2 of them. There were actually 12 seperate frames in this burst and only the last two show the abnomaly.

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Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Hydro47 wrote:

I shoot lots of pictures of wildlife near my home in Indiana. I shot a burst of a deer about mid afternoon on Jan 7th. The first two frames attached here look pretty normal. The next two look like ??? Like the deer is fading from sight and there is what looks like branches or shadows of branches overlayed on the deer. These four frames were a sequential part of a burst from my D7200. BBF, ISO 800, f8,1/800. Can anyone explain to me what happened here?

Excluding post editing or any errors in the system, this is the only logical explanation i can come up with.

For some reason there was a glass pane to your right side and as you pan it was included in the frame.
The glass was reflecting what was to your right which were branches and a snow bank(or white sky)
This was superimposed over the photo but only very visible in the deer body because it was darker
The full path of the reflection being approximately the same distance from the deer appear sharp in the photo.

Or that you were shooting through a glass panel and during the first photos, the deer was on the shadow of your own reflection and then as you pan, it came out the shadow hence what was reflected behind you got superimposed on the deer.

Further support that this was caused by a reflection thru glass is this; How would it be possible to have a sharp shadow of the trees but the the deer itself cast none?

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speedmaster Loc: Kendall, FL

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.

nailed it !

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

Again, the window was fully open. If it had not been, I couldn't have held a 70-300 lens up to it without bending backwards

Brokenland

it almost looks as if you're taking these shots from indoors/inside the car etc as you're getting a reflection from the window. However, you could also get this reflection using inferior extension tubes or filters. In as Deer blind with plexiglass window? there's your refection.

CO

Hydro47 wrote:

Just for the record, I saw the "overlayed bra... (show quote)

Is it possible that the rear view mirror on the driver's side was reflecting the sky and branches onto the front element of the lens?

The sky and branches can also be seen on the ground in places on the lower portion in one of the photos

Toment Loc: FL, IL

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.

HA HA