White Dots Showing Up

[WhipMaster]

Hi all.. I was out shooting deer a few days ago and a lot of my shots had white dots in them.. anyone know what causes this to happen?


300D + 100-400L IS

1/400, F/8, ISO 400 @ 400mm



100% Crop

http://image26.webshots.com/27/6/33/89/334863389eYCUYk_ph.jpg


(http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=showMyPhoto&albumID=334857661&photoID=335303842&security=zBFubJ)

[COKE CAN]

Dust?

[Pamela107]

Either that deer has some BIG ticks on it, or it looks like maybe your lens got something on it.


Pamela

[neil_r]

From the shape, they look to be falling ?


N

[wolf]

Dandruff http://photography-on-the.net/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif

They almost look like water droplets. Are they the same on all photos?

[WhipMaster]

Dandruff http://photography-on-the.net/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif

They almost look like water droplets. Are they the same on all photos?

Yep, They pretty much look all the same.. More showed up in a few Photos I took this morning.

[tpinchback]

Lets see a couple of shots with the white dots

[WhipMaster]

Lets see a couple of shots with the white dots

Ok.. Look at these 3 photos. In the Goose picture there is a big white dot on its head.

http://www.pbase.com/whipmaster/wildlife

[clickit]

The pattern is exactly the same on the first and fourth picture.There is something on or in your lense.

[WhipMaster]

The pattern is exactly the same on the first and fourth picture.There is something on or in your lense.

the first and fouth are the same picture. I just croped + enlarge it in the fourth picture.

[johnboy00]

The "spots" in the deer pics look like flies. In the goose pic, it looks like the goose just has a white spot on the side of its head. Did you get a shot of the same goose with no white spot?

[Bob_A]

Every once in awile I get a picture with a white spot like your goose photo (maybe 3 times in 2600 shots). It's as if there is an intermittent hot pixel. The deer one looks like the animal may have sneezed and ... well ... :)

Bob

[WhipMaster]

The "spots" in the deer pics look like flies. In the goose pic, it looks like the goose just has a white spot on the side of its head. Did you get a shot of the same goose with no white spot?

I took 4 pics and that was the only one with the dot

[WhipMaster]

Every once in awile I get a picture with a white spot like your goose photo (maybe 3 times in 2600 shots). It's as if there is an intermittent hot pixel. The deer one looks like the animal may have sneezed and ... well ... :)

Bob
Well she didn't sneeze, she wasn't really moving much, and its not water no anything else.


If this is Dust, Would it be White? Could this be caused by the intensity and direction of the sun making dust on the sensor very visible?

[robertwgross]

I do not think it is dust on the sensor.

In a dark room, when your flash fires, you can get white spots showing in the near field of the flash, and that is often dust in the air. However, these shots are not in a dark room.

---Bob Gross---

[Titus213]

It looks like you were shooting into the sun on all these. I would think it's something on your lens that is picking up the light at certain times. Have you tried any other lens?

[johnboy00]

Something on the lens wouldn't be that sharply defined, especially when the focal point is so far away. If you look at the crop of the deer, it looks like some "spots" are getting direct sunlight while others are in the deer's shadow. They look like flies to me.

[johnboy00]

I took 4 pics and that was the only one with the dot

Sure it was the same goose in all 4 pics?

[WhipMaster]

Hmmm.. I guess its a mystery, I'll have to do some more tests and cleaning to find the problem..

Thanks to everyone for the Help

[rwenglish1]

I have had my Canon 20D, only since Feburary 05, I took some pictures of some geese two weeks ago, and I had the white dot show up on the back of the neck on one of the geese, the very next picture showed it also, but I would have to think, this goose just has the spot on its head. rw

http://www.allmounts.com/resized/goose_ws1_1728.JPG

http://www.allmounts.com/resized/goose_ws2_1729.JPG

[badrotation]

possibly from a cottonwood tree? they are shedding right about now...