Strange line

What happened here? There was nothing to reflect nor was the sun shining into the room...

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• Camera model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  
• Flash used: Yes (auto)
  
• Focal length: 50.0mm
  
• Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60)
  
• Aperture: f/5.0
  
• ISO equiv.: 400
  
• Whitebalance: Auto
  
• Metering Mode: matrix
  
• Exposure: program (auto)

Very strange....I've never seen anything quite like it and I can't think of what would've caused it. Did the pic show up like this on your camera LCD before downloading it to your computer?

So, could it be that the shutter is sticking open? I am not sure exactly ho the shutter comes across the sensor.

BTW, does it do it on all of the pics? Some of them? Just this one?

It did it on three shots. All were of her but were slightly different angles.

I didn't even notice before I pulled them off the card and they have since been deleted once I backed them up to CD and external HDD.

I shot a good fifty pics before that and another 250+ the rest of the day and not a single one was unusual. Just those three of her in that room. There was NOTHING in there that could have caused it (reflection, outside light, whatever).

misskitty5077 wrote in post #2345562
It did it on three shots. All were of her but were slightly different angles.

I didn't even notice before I pulled them off the card and they have since been deleted once I backed them up to CD and external HDD.

I shot a good fifty pics before that and another 250+ the rest of the day and not a single one was unusual. Just those three of her in that room. There was NOTHING in there that could have caused it (reflection, outside light, whatever).

Did the bright line also go through her face? Or did it obviously pass behind? Can't tell from the blacking out.

No, it is like a halo around her. Just wraps right around her head from behind and not a trace of it on the face/side of her head.

Ok, thats spooky. Has to be something in the room then.

Yeah, you would think so but the only thing in there are voting machines and they are spread out. If they were in the shot, they wouldn't be in the line of the light. Along the very far wall were some stacked chairs, none of them reflective, a TV and a table with a couple of laptops. Even if it was the light bouncing off the TV (only thing reflective in the room) there is no way it could have created that angle.

All three pics show the line wrapping around her just the same but the angle of the shots are different. I don't know how to explain it...but the light doesn't change even though I moved. It isn't in the corner in all three but it comes across her shoulder at the exact same angle but does not show on her head at all.

I have never seen anything like it... I have spent a ton of time in the room this was shot in and it is not light coming inside the building doing it. There is nothing in there to reflect it.

Well... The fact that the image is underexposed above the line may indicate something - what I'm not sure but if the room was evenly lit then one would imagine that the problem lies with how the camera has recorded the image, whether it be the shutter or another mecahnical part or an actual problem with the recording itself...

I have probably shot 500 pics since then and nothing else out of the ordinary.

It just perplexes me is all...

Does it have something to do with the flash?

The EXIF says that you used the flash. However, if you look at the lighting on the subject, there is a shadow of the subject's head on the neck and shoulders on her right side. There's also a shadow of her head on the wall behind her to her left (your right). Based on that, my guess is that the flash was pointed partially upwards and bounced off the ceiling. Maybe there was a light or some kind of ceiling fixture that was shiny enough to cause the bright light reflection behind the subject.

She is possessed!

Jim G wrote in post #2345668
Well... The fact that the image is underexposed above the line may indicate something - what I'm not sure but if the room was evenly lit then one would imagine that the problem lies with how the camera has recorded the image, whether it be the shutter or another mecahnical part or an actual problem with the recording itself...

I at first thought mechanical as well, but look at her shoulder, it i unaffected. If it's a shutter problem it would hit everything the same.
It still looks like a shaft of sunlight coming in through either a high window or a skylight.. Or maybe it's her radiant personality shining through.

Actually, I seem to remember s movie long ago. I believe it was called Damian or the Omen. There was a priest who had a shaft of light going through him in a pic as well. Unfortunately, a lightning rod got blasted off the top of a church and... um... well, skewered him. Not a pleasant sight.