Click and click again for a closer look. It was 5:48 a.am on the morning after a heavy thunderstorm. I stopped in the middle of my sunrise run to get a photo of the big tree limb that crossed the path. The other shot, taken 10 seconds earlier, does not show the same effect:
I can't explain the difference. I only took photographs to document the phenomenon of falling tree branches, a safety hazard the forest walker/runner must consider.
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A drop of rain on your lens in the second picture that caused a blurring effect?
Whiskeybum
First photo was snapped with "Impressionist filter" turned on.
I should say that it was pretty dark there and the camera was performing whatever low-light function it's programmed to do.
Speaking of painterly.
There are a number of companies that will take a photo you email them and then turn it into an oil or pastel portrait. They can also combine photos or take someone out of a photo like Stalin did.
I've had 3 done, and I love them.
Google "painterly."
It could have been mist. We spent a glorious weekend golfing, and when I tried to get a shot of my wife on the 18th green is came out like that...some mist had just come in. Either way it is aesthetically pleasing even if not an accurate representation.
Your low-light function guess seems reasonable. The first picture is darker and appears out of focus, maybe with some motion blur thrown in. That would be consistent with a slow shutter speed.
The slow shutter speed means a longer exposure to compensate for the lower light. It means the natural unsteadiness of the human hands becomes more evident. Autofocus also doesn't work as well in lower light.
I have an iPhone XS, and I get the occasional weird photo come up. I was taking a picture out the airplane window when I was flying home from Michigan via Baltimore, and got a really weird effect while taking off from Charm City that looked like a lot of various-colored short horizonal lines. Sometimes I take multiple shots of a picture and get something that's out of focus like that. I'll email you my Baltimore pic, which I'm currently using as my Facebook background.
I checked the EXIF information for these photos on Flickr. Both are "composite images". Maybe you were more still in the sharper version when you took that shot? Cool dreamy effect in the other.
Auto focus still hunting. Movement with a longer exposure due to low light. One, the other or a combination of both...
There's actually a term in forestry for a tree or limb that falls, potentially causing injury or death: widowmaker.
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