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SK6
5th of July 2009 (Sun), 23:16
I was not really shooting the the sky, just testing out a new tripod. Came back home about 30 minutes ago to check shots and barely saw this..

first pic is UNEDITED except for crop and resize
second pic is EDITED and 100% cropped to show the objects shape



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3692295285_ea88e121b5_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3692295287_539cab997e_o.jpg
SK6
5th of July 2009 (Sun), 23:41
no comments...this is NOT a joke.
shannyD
5th of July 2009 (Sun), 23:44
that is strange, and interesting. i have no idea what it is.. but they pros will be a long in a little bit.. patience grasshopper. :)
shannyD
5th of July 2009 (Sun), 23:45
how long of an exposure was this?
SK6
5th of July 2009 (Sun), 23:55
Tv(Shutter Speed)
10Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F3.2
Metering Modes
Evaluative metering
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
100
Lens
17-70mm
Focal Length
23.0 mm
malcolm027
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 00:35
AN ALIEN!
It looks kind of like lens flare but idk where that would come from... maybe the moon.. weird
renegade
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 00:40
Looks to me like your stock standard OOF ufo photo - like millions of others taken every year.
- or could be some kind of lens flare....
JBishop0
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 01:08
you should sell this photo to a ufo magazine or something... haha
markjpcs
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 01:19
Queue theme to The Twilight Zone!

Seriously though, at what were you pointing the camera?
nardes
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 01:46
Did you have a filter on the lens? I’ve had similar looking flare with a UV/IR block filter fitted, from the planet Jupiter which was in the field of view.

Cheers

Dennis
troypiggo
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 02:16
I, for one, welcome our new red-square-around-green-spaceship overlords.
Alexei TND
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 02:50
lens flare, that or we will be recieving messages stating: all your earths are belong to us
sometime soon :D
chris.bailey
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 08:20
He forgot to mention this was taken at the world baby dummy (soother?) throwing championships!
SK6
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 10:44
He forgot to mention this was taken at the world baby dummy (soother?) throwing championships!


YOU GOT IT!

I was running a UV filter and shooting at moon light off a steaming pond
FlyingPhotog
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 10:45
Klatuu Baratta Nikto...
Darsk47
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 11:08
Batman is needed back in Gotham on this smoggy, overcast night.
flipstyle72
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 11:16
Klatuu Baratta Nikto... HAHA!
flipstyle72
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 11:18
but seriously, that's a cool shot. I'm a believer in aliens visiting us...that would have been my first guess. If it's real, have it authenticated.
SK6
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 21:58
If it's real, have it authenticated.


how would one go about that?
markjpcs
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 22:32
Lens flare.
CyberDyneSystems
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 22:47
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
FlyingPhotog
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 22:49
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Indeed... (http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/image/113852787)
dispatchermike21
6th of July 2009 (Mon), 23:09
WoW
le_R
7th of July 2009 (Tue), 01:36
YOU GOT IT!

I was running a UV filter and shooting at moon light off a steaming pond

this is lens flare due to your UV filter.
robbug
7th of July 2009 (Tue), 10:32
Definately lens flare. Here is a good explanation of what it can look like. It's a ghosting/flare of what was reflected:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-feb-05.shtml
alasavio
9th of July 2009 (Thu), 16:44
Uh Oh, time to stock up on aluminum foil and baby monitors ;-)
Adrena1in
10th of July 2009 (Fri), 03:41
Lens flare or internal reflections. Had something quite smilar when I took an exposure of a landscape with some bright stadium lights near the bottom centre, except in my image I had three "alien flying jellyfish", floating in formation above the ground! ;)

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2651/stadiumattack50mmf1825s.th.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/stadiumattack50mmf1825s.jpg/)
pixelbasher
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 05:42
Where did the photos go?

I want to see the little green men too!


If it's real, have it authenticated.

Who exactly does the "authentication"? !!!
PLLphotography
18th of July 2009 (Sat), 16:28
yeah....I just came across this thread...and after reading all the comments I want to see the pictures too lol. All I see are two empty squares where the images used to be....perhaps they were "beamed" away? ;)
Karl Johnston
18th of July 2009 (Sat), 21:45
Klatuu Baratta Nikto...
Are you talking in alien tongues again?
FlyingPhotog
18th of July 2009 (Sat), 21:48
Are you talking in alien tongues again?

I didn't get the spelling quite right but...

Classic Link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/)
pixelbasher
19th of July 2009 (Sun), 03:54
yeah ok, one of the photos is back up, but it's pretty obvious that if you were pointing the camera you would have seen "the spacehip" in the viewfinder.

The fact you didn't see it until you got home tells me it is exactly what others here have said it is.......unless it had special alien "non visible to human eyes but visible to camera sensor" paint! ;)

So I guess I can take my foil hat off...........for now! :lol:
ejicon
22nd of July 2009 (Wed), 03:22
any MIB agents in here yet.. seriously though... nice capture
SK6
22nd of July 2009 (Wed), 22:36
The problem is solved, im deleting the pictures