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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Can anyone explain the streaks in the picture?Question: Can anyone explain the streaks in the picture!? If you look closely, it can't possibly be reflection since reflected light travels in a straight line!. It can't be movement because the rest of the picture is crystal clear!. It wasn't real smoke and I saw nothing but the console in the view finder!.
It was taken with a digital Canon camera!. The lines converge and diverge so it can't be anything I know of and it was a very fast shot so it couldn't be a bug!. Any ideas!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It is possesed by the speed devil and you will'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. LOL!. No idea but it look's cool I would say!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I'm not 100% positive, but I believe your light source moved during the picture!. Where you driving while this was taken, or was someone holding a flash light!? Probably just a wobbly hand, or a bump in the road and passing street lights would cause this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Where's the picture!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Try posting a picture and maybe we can help!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It seriously looks like movement to me!. Do you have a sunroof!?Www@QuestionHome@Com what picture!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Your shutter speed was "slow" allowing the reflected light from the chrome to smear, just as in time exposures where you see head lights and tail lights of cars making the curvy smears of light in some winding road pictures, often at night!. In the case of the cars, it is them moving, while in your case, it was the camera!. You used the flash but had the camera's setting set to something other than "flash" and while the camera's electronic flash went off, making for a proper exposure, the shutter remained open longer than was necessary!. You may have had the camera set (maybe accidental) to a landscape or scenery mode!. There are a few other settings in many digital cameras that would allow for this to happen, including M and having the flash hood up and a shutter speed set low, like 1/30th or less, of a second!. The flash illuminates the area but the shutter remains open to capture ambient light which in this case caused the light smears as you moved the camera before it's shutter could close!. If used correctly it can be a very good artsi fartsi way to take 'some' images of the world around you!. Stop action but with a hint of movement!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Just doing some educated guessing here!. You obviously had the flash on!. However, it may be set to a fill flash mode!. In other words, the camera is actually exposing for ambient light but the flash is also firing to "fill in" shadows!. This is a normal procedure for outdoor daylight shots to put some light on the face of a person!. The streaks are just the glare on the console and streaking due to camera movement!. Remember, the camera exposed for the ambient light, which means it set a slower shutter speed!. Then the flash fired also!. The streaks were caused by camera movement, (and it only takes a TINY amount of movement), while the flash "froze" the remainder of the photo to keep it sharp!. Another term for this is dragging the shutter!. With an SLR camera the shutter can be set to about 1/30 to allow in more ambient light, while at the same time setting the flash to fire to help freeze movement!. It looks to me like your camera, (a point and shoot I am assuming), just kind of did this on it's own under these circumstances!. Could be wrong on this, but this is what it looks like to me!.!.!.!.!. or maybe you do have ghosts!!! :-) steveWww@QuestionHome@Com |