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I was taking pictures tonight of the horizon with the stars, the fireflies, occasional distant fireworks and finally the kids with sparklers.
Here is a shot of the horizon taken from the back of my house. The yellow glow you see that comes from the bottom left into the middle of the pic is a street light from in front of my house. There are houses on the next intersecting street over, but that street is about a block and a half away from my house to the right. As you may be able to see, the fireflies show up as flecks of lime green. The stars are obviously in the sky as silver/white specks. Behind my house is a line of edging bricks (approx 25 feet from the back of my house) then about fifty yards of green grass with a line of trees beyond that. Behind the line of trees/bushes is a corn field. The nearest road is a mile past the beginning of the field. You can also see the shadow of my work shed off to the left.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... C_1669.jpg
This picture was taken after the last box of sparklers was lit and burned out. It resembles the last seconds of a hot sparkler wire. If you look closely, you can even see a white hot spark before it fizzles.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... C_1689.jpg
What I don't understand, however, is WHO is holding the sparkler? My son held the last of the sparklers, yet he's not even a faint mist in the picture. WTF? Where'd he go? Why isn't he in the picture, too?
Here's a picture of both kids where my daughter's sparkler burns out, but you can still see her and my son both. I understand there's still light coming from my son's sparkler, which helps light her up a bit, but I would've thought in the other picture there would've been *some* faint sign of him being in the picture and I'm just not seeing it.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... C_1680.jpg
I can only assume the mystery picture is the remnants of a sparkler, but I'm still at a loss as to where my son went in the picture.
Also...as a side note (and you may be able to see it in the first picture), shortly before we were done with the sparklers, I was trying to get a shot of the horizon with the stars and distant fireworks (we're talking MILES and miles and miles away)....the three of us were looking toward the field and saw a large (at least the length of a car and twice as wide) mist/fog of light. It wasn't spotlight bright, but it was still quite visible. We all three saw it at the same time and all said "What is THAT?!" I tried looking around, thinking maybe it was somehow car headlights shining on it, but there's no way it could've been, as any car headlights would've been blocked by trees and houses. The light vanished for a few seconds, then came back brighter and spread farther to the right from inside the corn field over to the grassy field behind the house next to us. It then completely disappeared. Again, there were no cars present, but even if they had been, the houses and trees would've created odd shadows and/or blocked it altogether in spots. I'm at a loss.
(BTW, if you CLICK on the link following the photo, you'll be taken to a larger version of the picture shown so you can look more closely.
Thanks for any help!
Mel
Posted : 05/07/2008 6:09 am
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Oh..the pictures were taken between 10 and 10:30 pm tonight. I am just fortunate to have killer night-vision on my camera and I was using a tripod. Absolutely *NO* flash was used in ANY of these pictures.
Also....
Here is are links to view the first picture with a little bit different contrast.
The whole picture: http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... ixedit.jpg
The cropped version:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... itcrop.jpg
The cropped version with the area in question circled:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... circle.jpg
Now, keep in mind, the brightness of the light in this picture isn't as bright as it got when we saw it. We just happened to capture it here shortly before we saw it with our naked eyes.
Posted : 05/07/2008 6:13 am
Oh..the pictures were taken between 10 and 10:30 pm tonight. I am just fortunate to have killer night-vision on my camera and I was using a tripod. Absolutely *NO* flash was used in ANY of these pictures.
Also....
Here is are links to view the first picture with a little bit different contrast.
The whole picture: http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... ixedit.jpg
The cropped version:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... itcrop.jpgThe cropped version with the area in question circled:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/ ... circle.jpgNow, keep in mind, the brightness of the light in this picture isn't as bright as it got when we saw it. We just happened to capture it here shortly before we saw it with our naked eyes.
Hey Mel...dang..i was gonna say on the shot of the kids maybe the camera moved until you mentioned a tripod....ima at a loss to why your one son is blurred and the other kid is just fine in pic..very weird
The sparkler one missing your son is also weird, sure he is not behind anything,,or may ran after he waved the sparkler..if he is indeed there wow....i know abit about camera, what about the shutter speed? probably not tho....hmm great pics tho all he same..im sure someone will be able to answer your questions..by the way cool backyard..and nice family 😁
xoxo
Posted : 05/07/2008 9:41 pm
Is the canera automatic?
Posted : 05/07/2008 11:10 pm
Mel...i looked at the larger shot...is that not your son just barely halfway up the pic on the right side..i see what looks like someone in a white shirt walking away..i think back may be turned but not sure..
Posted : 05/07/2008 11:15 pm
I amped up the gamma and thee does appear to be a shape where you son should be. It's faint mist but it looks like there's two legs.
Posted : 06/07/2008 1:27 am
I amped up the gamma and thee does appear to be a shape where you son should be. It's faint mist but it looks like there's two legs.
good work bk!
Posted : 07/07/2008 7:41 pm
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Mel...i looked at the larger shot...is that not your son just barely halfway up the pic on the right side..i see what looks like someone in a white shirt walking away..i think back may be turned but not sure..
The white spot you see, I think, may be the built up gray brick wall on the right side of my yard.
The shutter speed was set to automatically figure what it needed to be in "nightscape". I didn't look to see exact settings, it's whatever pops up. 🙂
I amped up the gamma and thee does appear to be a shape where you son should be. It's faint mist but it looks like there's two legs.
The camera is very automatic, although I did have the focus set to manual (it fumbles with nightscape vision a bit as far as focus goes, so I adjusted that).
I'm *SO* glad you were able to get the picture to do that...it truly had me baffled..I figured it was probably a sparkler remnant, but I just had NO clue where my son went!! Every other picture we took that night had at least a glimpse of a shadow at some point, but I just couldn't see anything!! Thank you for nailing this down for me!!
Posted : 08/07/2008 12:36 am
I amped up the gamma and thee does appear to be a shape where you son should be. It's faint mist but it looks like there's two legs.
🙂 wow BK great work..i can see the legs faintly also now... mystery solved...
xoxoxo
train
Posted : 08/07/2008 12:50 pm
Glad to have been of some help.
🙂
Posted : 08/07/2008 4:10 pm
Slightly off-topic...
Can I just say that the scenery surrounding your home is beautiful!
Posted : 09/07/2008 11:40 pm
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Slightly off-topic...
Can I just say that the scenery surrounding your home is beautiful!
Aww...thank you very much!
Posted : 10/07/2008 3:55 am