Weird Glow

[Jason Cole]

Check this out from a Wedding I shot last weekend, any idea why the weird glow? It happenned on about 3 or 4 shots from the scene... weird eh... I quiet like it actually :-)

Any ideas why this happenned?

http://www.jasoncolephotography.com.au/POTN/WR3O0434.jpg

[spphoto]

Looks like there might be some moisture on or in the lens. Could be that there was a mist in the air too. I'm not sure though, maybe someone else has a better idea?

[Skrim17]

My first thought was moisture as well.

[coreypolis]

my vote is water on the lens. It happened to me this weekend but isn't as asthetically pleasing

[Jason Cole]

nah the lens had a hood on it and its an L-Series so its water tight, so it must be something else... also it wasnt raining then either...

[Grace]

im thinking a ghost bride coming to have her portraits done with this lovely couple.

[Grace]

haunted grass

[Grace]

steam from beneath the dress, that's a pretty steamy kiss goin on there. ;)

[CyberPet]

Still looks like "foggy" lens, or if the grass was cold and there's a mist emitting from the bride and her dress - which is hotter - in combination of high humidity.

[Jason Cole]

Yeah but if thats the case why did it only happen on about 3 or 4 shots from about 20 i took in the same location same angles and stuff... weird eh...

[jcpoulin]

I am thinking the dress had an ultra-reflective finish to it and captured the light " just right" The vail did not. The satin material did. Just my guess. I don't think water on lens would offer that defined of a pattern, nor would mist/water inside lens, and would certainly effect all shots. I certainly have never seen it but kind of cool anyways!!!

[sblais]

im thinking a ghost bride coming to have her portraits done with this lovely couple.

haunted grass

steam from beneath the dress, that's a pretty steamy kiss goin on there.

Kathy is on a roll here! :D

Here's my contribution:

- The bride was levitating and this is motion blur
- The dress was vaporizing (going from a solid to a gaseous state)

:D

[CyberPet]

Jason, because the barometer dropped... the mist disappeared after a few minutes. Sometimes mist is almost invisible for our eyes, but the camera caught it... and as it looks like it was a kind of grey day, it might have been just regular mist (or fog) that went away within minutes.

[tim]

Yeah mist/fog on the lens. Happened to a lens in my bag the other day.

[jcpoulin]

Another thought would be the long train trapping in some moisture (from grass) than evaporating under the heat of the dress. Why not on other shots...the dress may have been moved/lifted, thus releasing the water content. Was the brides' dress there layed out in that position for a while?

[gkwood]

Hey Jason you been on your holls , we have not seeen you around here for a while , anyways i guessing its steam from the grass as your such a hot photographer he he :)

[thebrewer]

perhaps a UV fabric brightner to make the dress whiter with a touch of fog in the lens or in the air?

Where these the first few of the 20 shots? did the lens adjust to the air temp for the remaining shots?

Rich

[picturecrazy]

I agree. It's ghosts. spooky!

Or maybe you are shooting by one of those quantum vortexes. I've been to one and it's just downright weird. Gravity pulls diagonally instead of downward and when I took pictures there (just snapshots with family), light was skewed in strange directions and people appeared to shrink and grow. really strange stuff.

[TeeJay]

.... or maybe Jason got his dates mixed up and this was meant for another 12 days time!


:-)

[NickSimcheck]

Jason, I'm assuming you used a little fill flash?

My theory is that the glow was produced from a combonation of the glossy/reflective dress (notice everything else in the shot isn't very reflective) and the humidity/mist/dew/etc. The dress essentially served as a reflector and in effect almost doubled the amount of light hitting the mist surrounding the immediate area.. I guess what I am getting at is this:

Professor Jason Cole, did it with The Flash Gun, in the Wollongong Field (..er room)

[sblais]

I agree. It's ghosts. spooky!

Or maybe you are shooting by one of those quantum vortexes. I've been to one and it's just downright weird. Gravity pulls diagonally instead of downward and when I took pictures there (just snapshots with family), light was skewed in strange directions and people appeared to shrink and grow. really strange stuff.

I think you are geekier than me ;) (and you take nicer picture :cry: )! What did you study in?

[picturecrazy]

I think you are geekier than me ;) (and you take nicer picture :cry: )! What did you study in?


I am totally a geek and nerd! I have a degree in Computer Science.

But I'm completely serious about the vortex thing. They DO exist and the only way to understand it is to experience one yourself. I should try to dig up some photos...

Jason, you sure you weren't by a vortex? Probably not, but curious nonetheless.

you can all stop laughing at me now... ;)

[sblais]

I am totally a geek and nerd! I have a degree in Computer Science.

But I'm completely serious about the vortex thing. They DO exist and the only way to understand it is to experience one yourself. I should try to dig up some photos...

Jason, you sure you weren't by a vortex? Probably not, but curious nonetheless.

And I thought that you were talking about theoretical physics and making a joke out of it! All this time, you actually experienced it!

My question is: what did you take before that photo shoot? TELL ME!!! :D

you can all stop laughing at me now... ;)

:lol: <== Almost done laughing ;) :lol:

[Jason Cole]

I am thinking that maybe the dress is super reflective and the shot is over eposed 1 stop.... that might be the answer here.... I really like the effect and I wish I knew exactly what it was so I could replicate it again :-)

[song4themoon]

If its fog on the lens.. why would it come out nicely just around the corner of the end of her dress? I dont believe that, must be something else. What? I dont know. Probably a ghost or so..lol... send it to the newspaper with the title "ghost captured on wedding pic" and you will be in all magazines hehe

[Grace]

you can all stop laughing at me now... ;)

all the hot girls llike geeky guys! :)

[sblais]

all the hot girls llike geeky guys! :)

Or stalk them ;)

[Grace]

waaa haaa ha ha ha ha


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[picturecrazy]

all the hot girls llike geeky guys! :)

what? Are you sure about that? LOL, you're hilarious Kathy. So where were they all throughout my school years? LOL. I swear it's cooler to be a geek now than it was 10 years ago.

And I still think Jason was shooting by a vortex. ;)

[Grace]

they didn't understand it in high school!

[Jason Cole]

BINGO!!!

The dress was a reflector and doubled the amount of light that hit - hence lighting up the mist around it... bingo.. thats the answer :-)

Thanks guys :-) I feel better now :-)

P.S. What a Vortex? Soen kind of little furry animal no doubt...

[sblais]

P.S. What a Vortex? Soen kind of little furry animal no doubt...

For a simple answer, it's a spiral shaped "flow" (it can be water, air, etc). A whirlpool, a hurricane and a tornado are all examples of vortices.

[mrslevite]

For a simple answer, it's a spiral shaped "flow" (it can be water, air, etc). A whirlpool, a hurricane and a tornado are all examples of vortices.
A vortex is one those things that sucks us into these forums and we can't get out! :p

[picturecrazy]

P.S. What a Vortex? Soen kind of little furry animal no doubt...


LOL. The kind of vortex i'm referring to is hard to describe. The laws of physics somehow get twisted at these locations. Gravity no longer pulls you straight down, but sometimes diagonally. Perspectives and illusions start happening where objects can appear to shrink or grow. It does funny things with light too.

Here's a shot I took at the edge of a vortex. (crappy P&S camera, sorry) Funny thing is.... the snow was FALLING (of course). I was like... huh?
Notice the shape of the tree trunks? Funny things happen when gravity doesn't pull straight downwards...
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/vortex1.jpg


Here's another snapshot of my wife and sister standing by other trees skewed by the effects of the vortex.
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/vortex2.jpg


So yeah, forget fog and reflective properties of the dress. It was a vortex! hahahaha

what a nerd I am...

[sblais]

Where did you find that "vortex"? I'd be curious to go there myself! :D

[picturecrazy]

Where did you find that "vortex"? I'd be curious to go there myself! :D

This one is in montana, close to Columbia Falls and Glacier National Park. Next time I go there, I'm gonna bring a dslr and take a zillion pics. Apparently, it's a hotbed to capture images of spirit activity too. crazy. I didn't believe any of it until I went there myself.

[spphoto]

There are trees like that here too. But for a bit of a different reason. The wind blows so derned hard that they can't grow straight (or grow branches on one side of them... but that's just bizarre).

[Grasshopper168]

P.S. What a Vortex? Soen kind of little furry animal no doubt...

Jason,

I think you are thinking about a Vulpix (A Pokemon)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/9/95/037_Vulpix.png