What caused that cloudy band thrugh this photo.
It was a cloudy day; no direct sunlight. I was using a Canon Powershot G7x.
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?
speters wrote:
Maybe a cracked filter?
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.
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 ?
trail guardians moving to get out of the photo?
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.
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.)
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.
gwytlutlu wrote:
trail guardians moving to get out of the photo?
I'm going with your explanation. Maybe they were jumping into the shot.
katatl wrote:
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.)
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
Judging by photo #3, you were practically in the clouds at that elevation. I wonder if that's a sun pillar that formed.
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.
Looks like a hair or similar might have been on the lens.
I wouldn’t worry about it if it’s gone
"Beam me up, Scotty."
I think it had something to do with the light, as mentioned in CO's post.
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
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!
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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