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I just got my 10D two days ago, and have taken a number of good pictures today, but as I was taking some today, I got these strange blue spots while I tried to take pictures of some tree roots.

These spots only seemed to appear while I was taking pictures of this one tree. Here is a link to the picture, I scaled it down a lot, but the picture was shot in RAW. The shot was using the Program AE mode, with a shutter of 1/30 and aperture of 1.8 with my canon 50 mm f/1.8 lens.



Anybody know what might have caused this? I am a pretty new to this, but so far everything else has come out better than expected, I just had a problem with this one shot.
 
Cal Dawson said:
Actually looks like a reflection of some kind. The sun look like it
is in front. Are other pictures affected?
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Yea, other pictures are affected, but just off this particular shot. And yea, this was taken around 5 pm, so the sun was coming at the picture over the hill at a pretty steep angle.

And I thought it may have been a reflection too, but I can't figure out off what.
 
and did you use a lens hood.? It looks like internal reflections due to maybe a filter or lens issue.

Rich
Zyzzyva100 said:
Cal Dawson said:
Actually looks like a reflection of some kind. The sun look like it
is in front. Are other pictures affected?
Click to expand...
Yea, other pictures are affected, but just off this particular
shot. And yea, this was taken around 5 pm, so the sun was coming
at the picture over the hill at a pretty steep angle.

And I thought it may have been a reflection too, but I can't figure
out off what.
Click to expand...
 
Yea, actually now that I think about it, I think its from the filter. I was using a UV filter, but I had the lens hood on there which requires a liittle ring adapter, and so the filter ends up further from the glass, and I bet that caused an internal reflection of some sort.
RichW said:
Rich
Zyzzyva100 said:
Cal Dawson said:
Actually looks like a reflection of some kind. The sun look like it
is in front. Are other pictures affected?
Click to expand...
Yea, other pictures are affected, but just off this particular
shot. And yea, this was taken around 5 pm, so the sun was coming
at the picture over the hill at a pretty steep angle.

And I thought it may have been a reflection too, but I can't figure
out off what.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Hi zyzzyva100,

This is lens flare and it is most typically caused by using a cheap filter that is not multi-coated.

Jack
Zyzzyva100 said:
I just got my 10D two days ago, and have taken a number of good
pictures today, but as I was taking some today, I got these strange
blue spots while I tried to take pictures of some tree roots.

These spots only seemed to appear while I was taking pictures of
this one tree. Here is a link to the picture, I scaled it down a
lot, but the picture was shot in RAW. The shot was using the
Program AE mode, with a shutter of 1/30 and aperture of 1.8 with my
canon 50 mm f/1.8 lens.



Anybody know what might have caused this? I am a pretty new to
this, but so far everything else has come out better than expected,
I just had a problem with this one shot.
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and cause problems with reflection. Always use a high quality multi coated filter or use none at all. Hoya Pro1 filters seem to work best for me.

Rich
Zyzzyva100 said:
RichW said:
Rich
Zyzzyva100 said:
Cal Dawson said:
Actually looks like a reflection of some kind. The sun look like it
is in front. Are other pictures affected?
Click to expand...
Yea, other pictures are affected, but just off this particular
shot. And yea, this was taken around 5 pm, so the sun was coming
at the picture over the hill at a pretty steep angle.

And I thought it may have been a reflection too, but I can't figure
out off what.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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