What is this? Seriously?

[mintygreen]

I'm a bit confused as to what to say about this and am wondering what some other people might think.

A few days ago a few pictures were taken of me outside and it was cold and dark out.

There were 2 pictures taken from the same angle, just one was more zoomed in than the other. In one picture, everything looks normal, in the other....something is visible. I really have no idea what this thing is or why this happened because I can't logically figure it out. There were no lights coming from that direction so I don't know why they would be infront of me and they weren't even the same colour as the other lights around me.

I didn't resize the pics just so it will be easiest to see.

First pic(normal pic):

frigida.homestead.com/files/DSC_0375.jpg

2nd pic with the strange lights(which only appear around/near me for some reason) :

frigida.homestead.com/files/DSC_0376.jpg

I don't really know what to think about stuff like this.

I do know that when I was a child and went in for a really long surgery my dad said he felt a presence come to him and place it's hand on his shoulder(he physically felt it do that even though whatever it was was totally invisible) and it also spoke to him and told him it was protecting me and that I'd be fine. My dad is NOT the kind of person who just says things like this. It's the only time he's ever claimed anything like that in his entire life and I'm apparently the only person he ever told since it involved me. My dad said no one else was in the room when this happened so it was clearly the invisible being speaking to him, and of course he physically felt it touch his shoulder.

Anyway, I don't know if the lights thing is something that can physically be explained but I personally don't really get it, especially since another picture was taken from the same angle, just less zoomed in, and that didn't happen in that picture. It's my camera too and I've never seen it do anything like this before.

[pitbulllady]

Those are probably what's known as "digital artifacts", the bane of digital photographers everywhere. Basically the digital processor inside the camera senses light somewhere else and imposes it, incorrectly, where it wasn't supposed to be. It happens more often than you think. Just recently, in a digital film of the planet Mercury made by a NASA satellite, a similar, mobile artifact appeared as a bright flash of moving light as the planet moved in its orbit, prompting many to declare that it was a giant flying saucer hiding behind the planet to avoid detection(why would an adanced civilization capable of building a huge flying machine that could withstand the temperatures THAT close to sun even CARE about avoiding detection?). NASA engineers closely examined it, and found it to be a digital artifact. I've had similar things happen when I take pics of snakes at reptile shows, and lights or images appear inside the snake's cages that weren't there when I took the pic, some of which are recognizable as things in the opposite direction. They don't appear as reflections on glass or plastic, but look like they are actually right next to the snake or imposed right in front of it.

pitbulllady

[mintygreen]

Jan 7, 2012 13:23:34 GMT -5 pitbulllady said:

Those are probably what's known as "digital artifacts", the bane of digital photographers everywhere. Basically the digital processor inside the camera senses light somewhere else and imposes it, incorrectly, where it wasn't supposed to be. It happens more often than you think. Just recently, in a digital film of the planet Mercury made by a NASA satellite, a similar, mobile artifact appeared as a bright flash of moving light as the planet moved in its orbit, prompting many to declare that it was a giant flying saucer hiding behind the planet to avoid detection(why would an adanced civilization capable of building a huge flying machine that could withstand the temperatures THAT close to sun even CARE about avoiding detection?). NASA engineers closely examined it, and found it to be a digital artifact. I've had similar things happen when I take pics of snakes at reptile shows, and lights or images appear inside the snake's cages that weren't there when I took the pic, some of which are recognizable as things in the opposite direction. They don't appear as reflections on glass or plastic, but look like they are actually right next to the snake or imposed right in front of it.

pitbulllady

Oh that's weird.

Just never happened with my camera before so didn't know what to think and other people on my Facebook page were telling me it was spirits.

[pitbulllady]

Jan 10, 2012 23:24:43 GMT -5 mintygreen said:

Jan 7, 2012 13:23:34 GMT -5 pitbulllady said:

Those are probably what's known as "digital artifacts", the bane of digital photographers everywhere. Basically the digital processor inside the camera senses light somewhere else and imposes it, incorrectly, where it wasn't supposed to be. It happens more often than you think. Just recently, in a digital film of the planet Mercury made by a NASA satellite, a similar, mobile artifact appeared as a bright flash of moving light as the planet moved in its orbit, prompting many to declare that it was a giant flying saucer hiding behind the planet to avoid detection(why would an adanced civilization capable of building a huge flying machine that could withstand the temperatures THAT close to sun even CARE about avoiding detection?). NASA engineers closely examined it, and found it to be a digital artifact. I've had similar things happen when I take pics of snakes at reptile shows, and lights or images appear inside the snake's cages that weren't there when I took the pic, some of which are recognizable as things in the opposite direction. They don't appear as reflections on glass or plastic, but look like they are actually right next to the snake or imposed right in front of it.

pitbulllady

Oh that's weird.

Just never happened with my camera before so didn't know what to think and other people on my Facebook page were telling me it was spirits.

The most logical explanation is usually-not always, but usually-the correct one. If you take as many photos as I do, of many different subjects in different lighting conditions, etc., you will encounter "artifacts" and that other bane of digital photographers, "noise". You will need to know how to recognize and deal with them and have programs on your computer to handle that.

pitbulllady