Discuss photo: Photo 1098

There were no rope lights on the porch. the orange haze is from the street lights. not sure about the green haze.

the angles are too precise. The circle and peaks are too crisp IMO. Looks like something on the lens or a particle close to it

this picture was taken in a series of random pictures one right after the other. he took a total of close to 20 on the porch in a row with only moments in between. this was the only one with these things in it. the pic right before and after are the exact same view and angle, nothing.. so i doubt it is anything on the camera. my opinion..

by no means am I doubting you. Just stating what I am feeling. I would think that if it was an entity you would also see through it, the wall or door frame. I am no expert and just questioning, the only way for me to learn

I don't know if i would call it an entity. Its just unknown.

No problem I was just trying to give more detail.

mcprs wrote:

LOL, OK, the white thingy

I have to admit this image had me stumped for a bit. My initial train of thought was that it had to be moving fairly fast because not only is it in the foreground,but if you look you can faintly see the enomoly moving into the other room and past the opening on the left.

For it to move that quickly it would have had to move at phenomenal speeds!

UNTIL!

I started looking at the EXIF data. EXIF data really tells the whole story. A few key factors to notice is that it was a flash photograph (Flash: fired) and that it was at a low F-Stop setting (3. and also and most importantly that the exposure time was 4 SECONDS.

So that means everything we're seeing in this image happened over a 4 second period of time. The program on the camera was a Creative Program of type "Night Scene". Generally those type will fire the flash over a 500ms period with a spread fire, and then keep the exposure going to get the highlight detail.

So lets look at the sequence of events:

1) The flash started firing at T-0000ms.
2) A small bug fairly fast bug was caught in front of the camera on the right, and was startled by the flash.
3) The bug started erratically flying away, perhaps hit something and then zoomed downward and into the other room.

As the bug got farther away from the flash you can see it gets dimmer and dimmer. Seems impossible until you remember that it all took place over 4 seconds. Count "1 one-thousand... 2 one-thousand"... and see how long that really is. Plenty of time for a bug to make its mad dash.

I'm not the one that took this picture but it was with my camera. My camera does have these settings but i had used it both before and after and don't remember is being put on that setting. I generally keep it on auto. I don't even know how to change the shutter speed. How could you see all that info about the picture? Where did you find the EXIF data?