Wild Crepuscular Light
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The reason I posted is that this very picture was a hot point
of discussion during a class last weekend.
Two other students took a similar pictures at the same time the
weekend before and experienced the same result. I instructed
them not to participate to the debate until the time was right.
— "There is a halo!" many said immediately on the other
students pictures. "That could only be poor masking…"
many agreed. Of those 9 students, only one suggested I
put up my take on the screen… there was a silence. Is
that a halo? ask the girl.
students pictures. "That could only be poor masking…"
many agreed. Of those 9 students, only one suggested I
put up my take on the screen… there was a silence. Is
that a halo? ask the girl.
"Than… it can't be a halo…" someone said… " he will not pre-
sent a shot like that" — "he" meaning me. When they all gave
up, I put this SOOC on the screen…
Now, can you explain that halo? … or is it something else?
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The reason I posted is that this very picture was a hot point
of discussion during a class last weekend.
Two other student took a similar pictures at the same time the
weekend before and experienced the same result. I instructed
them not to participate to the debate until the time was right.
— "There is a halo!" many said immediately on the other
students pictures. "That could only be poor masking…"
many agreed. Of those 9 students, only one suggested I
put up my take on the screen… there was a silence. Is
that a halo? ask the girl.
"Than… it can't be a halo…" someone said… " he will not pre-
sent a shot like that" — "he" meaning me. When they all gave
up, I put this SOOC on the screen…
Now, can you explain that halo? … or is it something else?
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How very odd....for once I am lost for words.
Got some nice bunnies in the shot.
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A retired Canadian bush pilot got the right explanation
and experienced it with a Snowy Owl in the Arctic too
like my first experience but with a Polar Bear.
Anyone else has an explanation???
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- my suggestion, Daniel, is (lens) diffraction caused by the strong back-lit subject
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- my suggestion, Daniel, is (lens) diffraction caused by the strong back-lit subject
Correct, Russ, it is caused by the strong backlit situation
but has nothing to do with the characteristics of the lens.
… something more exotic…
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I’d say possible refraction from the feathers.
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All I see is a great picture in beautiful twilight lighting.
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Thank you Sir… but dragonfly, like others, is seeing
something and interprets it as a halo…
Yes, that is the visual effect of it but not the cause and
certainly not a lousy PP masking work..
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This IMO does not look like Crepuscular light, reason I say that is the light/halo is not the source of light and certainly not "rays", to compare the term to animation/3D we would call it volumetric light, i.e Crepuscular (the Latin meaning of twilight), example:- light rays seen at twilight trough trees in mist/fog/dust/whatever, the contrast between light and dark. I do not know the cause of the halo around the duck, I would expect rim light but not the forward facing glow, oddly I have taken many photos of Aylesbury's in low light, often back-lit by the afternoon sun as they sit bank side on ponds and lakes and have never seen anything like that. It certainly makes the image "unique" but not something that I am a fan of.
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I was puzzled too the first time… on slide film. Like you, I couldn't
explain it.
That is the reason of that thread; the set of special conditions
that will create such effect… not the bird itself, of course not.
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