Re: I am no scientist, nor am I a photographer. But I have a photo that I would love for someone.....

In article <1123769047.859128.315650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Nicole" <jjpinks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> to explain what happened. This photo was taken in total darkness along
> with about 20 others at the same location. I used a HP Photosmart M305
> digital camera set on the "night" setting. I didn't do anything to this
> picture, and the others don't look like this, they are totally normal
> pictures.
>
> Can someone explain to me what happened in this picture???

My theory is that you set the camera to auto exposure and plugged in or
enabled the flash unit. The camera set a long exposure time to try and
get a good imnage in the poor light which managed to imprint the
gravestone on the film with some movement because you were not able to
hold the camera steady enough for the (*maybe) 2 sec exposure. The flash
went at the start and managed to capture the scene in the normal way.

I did this once in a restaurant in Estonia. I set the camera up to take
a scene of our group and then started the timer and rushed into
position. The person next to me moved over for me and he is captured
once in the main image, and then in the background as a moving image.
You get a 1/100 sec flash plus a 2 second or so slow capture. It is an
interesting picture but not what I intended.
.

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