Strange Shadow

[hewart]

I hope I am in the correct place for this. I took a series of photos that had strange shadows in the shot. I was wondering if anyone could provide an explanation as to how this happened. There are a total of 9 that I posted in my album. Each one was different, and the last one, taken a day later, showed no sign of the shadow. There is also one taken without the flash that also looked normal. This was a Sony digital DSLR-100 ISO speed was 400 F number was 5.6. It was set to auto exposure. Any help would be appreciated.

Found the cause. In the process of setting up the shot, I grabbed the barrel of the lens to steady the camera. This caused my fingers to block the flash. Changing shadows was due to my wife and myself moving our hands to re-position for each shot.

I will delete this post if I can find out how.

[chicagojohn]

Originally Posted by hewart

I hope I am in the correct place for this. I took a series of photos that had strange shadows in the shot. I was wondering if anyone could provide an explanation as to how this happened. There are a total of 9 that I posted in my album. Each one was different, and the last one, taken a day later, showed no sign of the shadow. There is also one taken without the flash that also looked normal. This was a Sony digital DSLR-100 ISO speed was 400 F number was 5.6. It was set to auto exposure. Any help would be appreciated.

[SIZE="2"]Found the cause. In the process of setting up the shot, I grabbed the barrel of the lens to steady the camera. This caused my fingers to block the flash. Changing shadows was due to my wife and myself moving our hands to re-position for each shot.[/SIZE]I will delete this post if I can find out how.

I'm glad you didn't find out how to delete this because it gives me the opportunity to post an alternate explanation. After careful analysis of the angle of incident light and shadow, I have concluded that there was something in between the light source and the reflective surfaces.

Now you hypothesize it was your or your wife's fingers, as I have duly noted. But I have what I believe to be the correct and veridical explanation; Shadow People. Two of them, according to my analysis. They weren't apparent to you or your wife, but they did manage to cast their shadows nonetheless!

Sometimes I catch a glimps of them out of the corner of my eye in the late evening, and I heard a discussion about them once on Coast to Coast AM radio. They have not yet invaded my photographs, thank goodness!

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

definitely shadow people. Haven't seen them since college!

[BigFuzzy]

I see so many people do the "fingers in front of flash" thing I just chuckle every time. I eventually say something (so as to incur no bad karma), but I wonder how many go through the same thing as you once they get home!