I really don't understand how that came out of the camera. The photos taken just before and just after look like this:
July 6, 2020
Mysterious sunrise photo...
Completely unretouched (other than to straighten the shoreline):
I really don't understand how that came out of the camera. The photos taken just before and just after look like this:
I really don't understand how that came out of the camera. The photos taken just before and just after look like this:
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Bokeh effect.
It looks like the fiery portal to hell.
Unretouched except your camera heard you cursing some commenter who criticized re-envisioning. Apple will do it for you, for you, oh, oh, oh, FOR YOU!
It looks like an unfocused shot and the “sun” is likely a bokeh effect from a bright source of light which in your case was the sun. If you look closely you can see another light colored distorted bokeh spot at around 1 o’clock near the top edge.
That top one is another classic ‘70’s sci-fi paperback cover. Something dystopian.
The craftsman never blames his tools.
My Guess, mirage effect.
"There have been no new COVID-19-related deaths over the last three days in Wisconsin, state officials said, saying there's also been a 49 percent increases in cases over the last two weeks."
There have been zero Covid-19 deaths in 6 of the last 11 days in Wisconsin. Hospitalizations show a clear downward trend. Recent COVID-19 cases have tended to be younger patients who recover and gain immunity.
All good news, right? So why aren't we celebrating?
Aliens. Nice photo though.
The camera is out of focus.
The camera is out of focus.
Reminds me of the closing scenes of one of my favorite movies, EXCALIBUR.
Internal reflections in the lens? ColoradoJim's observation may support this. I attempted to photograph the 1979 total solar eclipse. I badly overexposed it, but tucked away in the corners of a few shots were internally reflected images that were properly exposed. Of course I cropped those, blew them up, and let everybody think I was a great photographer.
Ennio Morricone is dead.
His stuff was brilliant.
The theme tomorrow, around here, is his overture for "The Mission".
"Ecstasy of Gold" is a bit too much as background music.
Good night!
oh
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/06/smithsonian-noose-no-suspect-video-dna/
“And I think it's gonna be all right.
Yeah, the worst is over now,
The morning sun is shining like a Red Rubber Ball.”
Simon and Garfunkel
RIP Ennio Morricone
the rich, tasty sauce in your spaghetti westerns
It looks like what awaits Leftists when the die.
Bottom pic needs a flight of Hueys coming in low.
Noted by Ace:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
They name teams out of STRENGTH, not weakness, but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians, like Elizabeth Warren, must be very angry right now!
2:13 PM · Jul 6, 2020
Aside from his obvious shortcomings, you can't say Trump doesn't have a wicked sense of humor.
“ If you look closely you can see another light colored distorted bokeh spot at around 1 o’clock near the top edge.”
That’s the white cloud in the second picture.
I know it’s out of focus, but why? And why is the sun a full circle? It was only a quarter of the way up.
The morning sun is shining like a Red Rubber Ball.”
Simon and Garfunkel
The Cyrkle actually. Simon was writing songs faster than S&G could record them.
RIP Ennio Morricone, who gave one woman a great job.
Where are the men?
Where are the men to protect us? Where are the men standing guard over our monuments? Guys my age, yea--but where are the 18-35 year olds?
I remember when Merkel let all the muslims in to run rampant, raping the German women, and the women asked "WHERE ARE OUR MEN?"
Patriarchy my ass-
Nothing but feminized, scared little boys. Notice the marxists don't tell their boys to be passive, don't cause trouble, de-escalate, watch their women and children get their asses kicked for the greater good.
Denver has given me all I could have ever asked for, and plenty more.
My new refi, and does (or can) anyone know how certain American Financing commercials make me hate John Elway and not Payton Manning?
I hated aspects of the league before, now I hate the whole league and any racist who associates with it.
NFL is racist. People who acknlowedge/support it are racist. This is a racist league of racists that must be stopped, be any nuclear means disposable.
Sure sure they came out with "but but we didn't allow Limbaugh, with his dirty filth money earned on the airways through truckers, only because race doesn't matter to us" charm.
Limbaugh's models have him at 55,000,000 listeners a week, fuckball.
See Rush just learned how to count.
So 55 million a week it is.
Are you racist?
And why is the sun a full circle? It was only a quarter of the way up.
This is called the "circle of confusion," an effect of the lens not coming to complete focus.
Joe Biden once told me I had to go into a 7-11 and to see a red dot like that.
Ghislaine put in the Epstein suicide suite?
Has she been cooperating in a sting while 'missing'??
how will she 'die' ?
Red Rubber Ball.”
Simon and Garfunkel
Only version I heard was by Cyrcle. But it does sound like an S&G song.
For Cyrcle I preferred Turn Down Day.
was only a quarter of the way up.
Maybe it was magnified in full by the thick atmosphere at the horizon.
Really
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1280232256204730369
Well then:
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/madeleine-albrights-consulting-firm-millions-coronavirus-relief/
monkeys used as slave labor to pick coconuts
PETA as union reps? Comment carefully
Ann,
Google Bokeh effect and see lots of similar pictures where a small point of light is amplified and shown as a larger circle. The horizon in the second picture is in focus so you don't get the Bokeh effect. In the first, you can see the out of focus horizon. It's not bright enough to create as spectacular an effect as the sun does but the first picture horizon is much fuzzier than the second and covers more vertical space.
You missed a great opportunity to take credit as a creative photographer here!!
"That’s the white cloud in the second picture."
I don't know, the spacing doesn't seem right and I see no hint of elongation in the white spot.
The Seekers also sang Red Rubber Ball. (Judith Durham has an incredible voice, BTW!)
happy accidents then.
Bokeh effects due to light sources are almost always round regardless of the shape of the light source. In this case the sun and perhaps the cloud were bright enough to show the bokeh. Sometimes you see geometric shapes in bokeh that is caused by the internal diaphragm of a lens shutter. Something that looks similar to bokeh would be something like internal dust on the lens. These can be confirmed if the spot is in the same place with different photos using the same camera settings with similar lighting.
It is pretty impressive that these days a phone camera can show some pretty good bokeh as it is much easier to achieve it with a large aperture lens like a portrait lens with a “fast” f stop rating where a smaller f number will have a shallow focus field that is used to take a photo of a person while blurring the background. Generally speaking it is harder to make a “fast” small lens like a phone lens. It looks like Apple has put in a really good sensor for low light to get around the limitations of a small lens. It will never be as good as the real thing but it does help not having to use longer exposure times to capture some stuff.
Try taking some photos of some leaves against something bright like the sunlight coming off the lake trying to use something like a close up setting in your camera. This basically forces the phone to use a shallow focus field and hopefully you will get some bokeh effects through the opening in the leaves a little farther away. For a more controlled atmosphere for testing, something like Christmas lights or car and traffic lights at night would work just making sure that you focus on something a lot closer. Obviously it is much easier to achieve if you can change the camera settings manually.
Your iPhone camera has the dreaded autofill feature. Next thing you know it will make people you photograph look fat.
Bail for Dawit Kelete set at $1.2 million. Only white lives matter in Seattle.
The Cyrkle were apparently (re) named by Brian Epstein and opened for The Beatles in 1966. That was enough to get them attention for their first album. Given that they had pretty big hits on their first two albums, it's not clear to me why they didn't go on from there. There was an interesting re-issue of their soundtrack to The Minx a few years ago.
The Seekers also did a good version of "Red Rubber Ball" though it is light on Judith Durham, one of the decade's best vocalists.
Only some:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1278474876622422017
The Seekers also sang Red Rubber Ball. (Judith Durham has an incredible voice, BTW!)
I see someone beat me to mentioning The Seekers and Durham. Man, she, could, really, sing.
I am old enough to remember lots and lots of 60s radicals who, by the time they were 30, were sad that they had encouraged others to do extreme acts, back in the day. And of course they were sad about what they themselves had done, in the arrogant pride of their privileged youth, when they had so little empathy for people like me and like so many of my friends who work hard every day to make the world a better place.
Actually, I am old enough to remember long conversations with a veteran of the 1898 Spanish-American war (yes, that was a thing).
anyway .....
I only tune in to the news twice or at most three times a day, but every day there seem to be several unnecessary personal tragedies stemming from self-righteous young people getting over-excited.
Come on, young people, step away from your cowardly violence, and step away from your self-righteousness .... (if I could talk to them, that is the first thing I would say) .....
Of course nobody listens, and, if the sources I rely on are accurate, every day another dozen or another hundred otherwise normal kids in their early 20s get overexcited, drunk or plastered or hynotized by some thought in their mind that they are more virtuous and brave than the rest of us, almost like they are almost like the superheroes in those silly movies that are so popular with the kids nowadays (and we, who are not young and do not watch movies in the Marvel universe, are nothing important - amirite, haven't many of those video-sotted young people thought that more than once?) ---- and they commit boring and cowardly "political" crimes that their middle-aged selves will feel deep shame for.
Sad!
Our media is hot garbage.
Blogger Tommy Duncan said...
"There have been no new COVID-19-related deaths over the last three days in Wisconsin,"
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Yeah..in my county the health dept is trying to gin up concern with daily "caes" bumping up into barely double digits.
A concerned Facebook commenter wanted to be assured the county death rate was at least decreasing.
Kinda hard to tell with a total of 4 deaths, last one on 6/8....
Tucker Rocks.
Thanks, ColoradoJim.
Yet another reason to read the comments.
Tucker Rocks
Poor young lady, with a mother dumber than a rock and as nutty as Flynn with the Q Anon stuff. I recall Doc Michael K talking about having a Covid party for his grandkids a while back.
Florida teen dies after conspiracy theorist mom takes her to church ‘COVID party’ and tries to treat her with Trump-approved drug.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated the teen’s last two weeks in the medical examiner’s report, which Jones said shows her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, had taken her on June 10 to a church-sponsored event to intentionally expose her immunocompromised daughter, who had survived cancer at 2, to the potentially deadly coronavirus.
More than 100 mask-free children attended the event, and Davis allegedly gave her daughter azithromycin, an anti-bacterial drug with no known benefits for fighting COVID-19, after she developed headaches, sinus pressure and a cough, Jones reported.
Davis — whose Facebook page is awash in QAnon conspiracy theories, anti-vaccine and coronavirus misinformation and dubious legal theories — next put the girl on her grandfather’s oxygen machine after she “looked gray” on June 19, Jones reported.
Then she gave the girl hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug touted as a cure by President Donald Trump, despite evidence of deadly side effects, and Carsyn’s condition worsened.
Davis finally took her daughter to a hospital, where she was admitted to a pediatric intensive-care unit — but declined intubation until it was too late, Jones wrote.
The hospital started plasma therapy on June 20 and 21, Jones reported, but Carsyn’s cardio-respiratory system was too seriously damaged and she died June 22.”
Colorado Jim,
Lens shutter? Don't we see this in SLRs too, from the not-totally-circular iris?
I'd say a reflection off the lens.
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And to think after all these years, Rush didn't figure out how to lie and steal and create anger.
Hmmm.
Blogger chuck said...
Bail for Dawit Kelete set at $1.2 million. Only white lives matter in Seattle.
All these fake cases will implode but the question is whether they can keep them going until the election. The Floyd case is the earliest and I see Ellison asking for a continuance until next year in hopes of a Biden DOJ.
Boy the left with Althouse sure knows how to proscribe evil as something other people do.
I don't know what the people making the 2020 Major League Baseball schedule were thinking, but they threw the idea of a fair and balanced schedule to the winds. It would have been easy to come up with a better schedule with less travel (the whole reason for only playing E vs. E, W vs. W, etc.) and the fairness of playing the same opponents the same number of times. Instead, we got a flaming dumpster fire.
The Yankees play ten games against the Red Sox, for instance. 5 at home, 5 on the road? No. 7 of the 10 games will be in New York. And the interleague games? 20 divided by five opponents should be simple, right? Four games against each opponent? Oh, no. They have to play two extra games against the "natural interleague rival," which means they have to take away a game against two other interleague opponents, meaning that they'll play four games against two of the opponents (2 games, home and road), and a single three-game series against two other opponents, one at home one on the road.
What they SHOULD have done: Play tow five-game series against division rivals, one home, one road. Two-and-two home and road series against their natural interleague rival, one four game series against each of the other four teams, two of them at home, two on the road. No other two-game series, lots less travel. And you'd see the entire rotation of your division rivals each time you faced them, meaning that some team wouldn't get lucky facing the Yankees and not having to see Gerrit Cole, for instance. Each team would face the same opponents the same number of times as everyone else in their division.
Instead, we get the flaming dumpster fire, where flukes in the schedule may end up being a decisive factor in determining who makes the postseason.
I hear that Clyde, but keep in mind, fair ain't got nothing to do with it. The schedule is designed to maximize interest and revenue.
"Google Bokeh effect and see lots of similar pictures where a small point of light is amplified and shown as a larger circle. The horizon in the second picture is in focus so you don't get the Bokeh effect. In the first, you can see the out of focus horizon. It's not bright enough to create as spectacular an effect as the sun does but the first picture horizon is much fuzzier than the second and covers more vertical space.
I know what Bokeh is and it's one of the main reasons I upgraded my iPhone, but I thought the camera would do that in the parts of the photo that were not deemed to be the subject. I've aimed the camera at the sun like this thousands of time and I've never seen it "decide" that the sun is the subject and everything else should be gently fuzzed — especially with this additional effect of completely reshaping the sun, showing a circle for something that was visible as less than a half circle.
Althouse: I presume you're aware that tapping the iPhone (camera viewfinder) screen forces it to refocus (and reset exposure) to the area indicated?
It’s actually the opposite. It’s focused on something nearby instead of the sun. My experience is that shooting into the sun can cause autofocus to get confused. Possible a lens flare or glowing dust particle caused the autofocus to think the subject was inches from your camera.
Because the sun is also completely out of focus, it’s circle of confusion ends up projecting on top of the darker horizon.
Try photographing the sun completely out of focus when it’s behind light cloud cover. To the eye, you’ll only see a faint red blur, but the out-of-focus camera will actually produce what a appears to be a crisp red disk with everything else blurred around it.
I did just that a couple weeks ago on accident and it’s a pretty cool effect.
It looks like a picture processing artifact (internal to the camera software). As if it had deduced a sun in sunrise mode.
Refraction wouldn't happen over water (the sky=water effect on hot roads) and would distort the circle anyway.
What is funny is Inga calling other people dumb at 10:31.
Who needs comedy writers when ordinary people say the funniest things.
"Althouse: I presume you're aware that tapping the iPhone (camera viewfinder) screen forces it to refocus (and reset exposure) to the area indicated?"
You presume wrong.
"It’s actually the opposite. It’s focused on something nearby instead of the sun. My experience is that shooting into the sun can cause autofocus to get confused. Possible a lens flare or glowing dust particle caused the autofocus to think the subject was inches from your camera."
Maybe an insect flew by, got focused on, then went off camera as the image was captured. That's my theory! The phantom gnat!
"Editor’s note: Jones’ analysis of the medical examiner’s report suggested that Davis had intentionally exposed her daughter to the virus at the event, but there’s no additional evidence to support that claim. This report has been updated to reflect subsequent reporting on the teen’s illness."
"The decedent's mother and father are a nurse and physician's assistant, respectively."
Hydroxychloroquine-based COVID-19 Treatment, A Systematic Review of Clinical Evidence and Expert Opinion from Physicians’ Surveys
Abstract
During the current COVID-19 epidemic, most of the evidence is collected by treating physicians, most of whom do not report their results in peer reviewed journals. Hence, there appears to be an especially broad gap between field experience and academic coverage of hydroxychloroquine-based COVID-19 treatments. The objective of this study is to bring field evidence into the academic literature.
Four relevant, non-academic surveys of physicians, in the US and globally, have been identified and checked for quality, statistical significance, coverage, and conflicts of interest. To avoid uninformed and unduly influenced opinions, only surveys conducted from April 4 to April 19 have been considered. These surveys were answered by thousands of physicians, who treated tens of thousands of COVID-19 patients.
The results: 85% of doctors said that hydroxychloroquine is at least somewhat effective for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine was the most utilized treatment for COVID-19 patients. 35%-40% of the doctors using the drug called it very effective or extremely effective against COVID-19. 65% of doctors said they would prescribe hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 to their family members.
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