{"id":40200,"date":"2016-06-19T04:38:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T10:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=40200"},"modified":"2016-06-19T04:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T10:38:57","slug":"a-photographic-mystery-from-a-reader-of-feathered-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/19\/a-photographic-mystery-from-a-reader-of-feathered-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"A Photographic Mystery From A Reader Of Feathered Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a comment on yesterday’s post I said that “everyone loves a mystery” but I like my mysteries best when they’re solved!<\/p>\n

Yesterday blog reader Roger Burnard sent me yet another mystery and I’m stymied by it so we’re both hoping that someone out there can help us come up with an explanation. The images below belong to Roger and I use them here by permission. They were taken with a Nikon D7000 with attached Nikon 16-85mm lens. Techs were 1\/60th sec, f\/6.3, ISO 200, with flash turned on.<\/p>\n

I’ll do my best to accurately\u00a0paraphrase what\u00a0Roger told me about the images and the enigma.<\/p>\n

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\"anole<\/p>\n

Roger photographed this anole on the back door of his lanai several years ago because\u00a0a friend wanted to know what they looked like. In this first image everything looks as expected.<\/p>\n

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\"anole<\/p>\n

In the next image in the series everything looks normal too.\u00a0The tail becomes more out of focus down it’s length but so does the door screen and both are to be expected\u00a0given the angle and the techs.<\/p>\n

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\"anole<\/p>\n

But check out this next image in the series. The front part of the anole now\u00a0appears to be behind<\/em> the screen and the rest of\u00a0the body in front of it. And sharp focus has been lost on the part of the anole that appears to be behind the screen.<\/p>\n

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\"anole<\/p>\n

A closer crop of the same image gives us a better look. I simply don’t understand how we can see screen that is, in reality, behind the anole where we shouldn’t be able to see it\u00a0and that the effect fades in and out throughout the image. For those familiar with recent versions of Photoshop it’s almost as if the camera has used Content-Aware Fill to clone in the screen in front of the lizard. I’m sure that didn’t happen but I can’t for the life of me think of a rational explanation. Even a failing camera shutter mechanism couldn’t cause this effect as far as I know.<\/p>\n

I realize that most of my readers are\u00a0much more interested in nature photographs and bird behaviors\u00a0than they are in photo-geekery but I also\u00a0know that some of you are far more knowledgeable about the\u00a0mechanics and physics of photography than I am so both Roger and I are hoping that someone will be able to shed some light on this little\u00a0conundrum.<\/p>\n

Besides I think that even non-photographers might be intrigued by this…<\/p>\n

Back to more regular fare tomorrow…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

PS – Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there!<\/p>\n

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In a comment on yesterday’s post I said that “everyone loves a mystery” but I like my mysteries best when they’re solved!<\/p>\n

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