Sunbathing

[varun7pathak]

So here I am with a picture that happened accidentally.. The problem is even after trying for a while i cannot make this happen again.
I was shooting pics of my friend.. and exploring different angles.. and at one of the angles i came up with this shot.. i tried capturing the suns rays in this very form again but i have not met much of success. I need to know can a setup be created to split the light in this form ? Or at what places can I expect such behaviour of light ?
Please help me in understanding how i took it ?

[JeffSmith]

can you re-post the pic smaller please, it's too wide for the forum and pop ups are all over it.

[varun7pathak]

Resized and uploaded again.. hope its fine now.. ?

[Quo Fan]

Looks like lens flare to me. To get it, your camera has to be pointing towards the sun, and have the front element not shaded from the sun.

[Syntaxxor]

Indeed it looks like you just caught some lens flare; nothing really technical about it.

[varun7pathak]

Originally Posted by Syntaxxor

Indeed it looks like you just caught some lens flare; nothing really technical about it.

Thanks for giving the technical term..
It ruins most photographs.. however i think in this case it has actually added on to the entire scene and effect..

[vtalinh]

Set something on fire, then you have smoke: smoke in sunlight.

Now you must choose an angle and shot