I think I missed your fake. Can you post another link to it or give the page number that it's on?MrMoon wrote: I've made that fake image for two reasons:
I think most people are not considering a fake because they've chosen to try to find an explanation assuming it is not a fake. That is not discounting that it could be a fake, by the way. In my opinion, the fake theory is less likely than the bug theory for reasons already mentioned.Most people were not considering it and I do not agree with that because it's so easy doing it.
In this image, which I consider the best one until now:
Was the focus set to infinity?
In the original post, it was mentioned where the focus was set -- on th giraffe, which was the closest the photographer could get to infinity -- 5 meters or so, if I recall correctly.
There is a specular reflection for sure, but judging by the color, the reflection is from incandescent light, not the camera flash.seems not but can't tell for sure, it depends on the lens used.
Also you can see the flash in the giraffe so it wasn't far from the camera.
No. There is a sync speed on cameras. This is the FASTEST shutter speed that will work with the flash. Anything slower will also work and expose the same amount of flash. Longer exposures will expose more by the ambient light. It could burn out the picture, but only if there were sufficient light. The pictures we're discussing were taken near sunset on an overcast day. It's entirely reasonable for 1/20 second to be appropriate for the situation.In general. Everyone is talking about 1/20 shutter speed. The standart speed for pictures with flash is 1/60 (that's why the old manual SLR's usually have that number in red) and that's because anything faster than that will not catch the flash and anything slower would be burned.
I can't believe you have to even ask the tripod question. There are three pictures taken 15 seconds apart that line up perfectly. That would be impossible to do without a tripod. The chances of Mr. Pryde not having used a tripod are near zero. But what difference does this make?Also when I look at Pryde's picture I see something like f5.8 - 1/120 or something like that. To use 1/20 you'd have to be somewhere between f11 and f16 but that's not a normal setup. Not to mention that to take a picture at 1/20 he had to use a tripod. Did he used a tripod?
That you know of.... Even if you haven't captured any accidentally, what difference does that make?I've taken many pictures and some in places with many bugs and I never catched a single one that wasn't on purpose.