Photographer captures stunning images of UFOs above Hatfield

OK, the original photo looks like it has 20min star trails.

His Flickr page

He keeps calling his camera a Canon EOS 60D.
Should be D60, strange error to make.

reply to post by ommadawn


I didn't know there was a canon d60, isnt that Nikon?

Originally posted by splittheatom
News Link

This is in my local paper website.
The guy claims to have captured these images over 20 minutes and he claims they were not moving.

What do you guys think?

A photographer that doesn`t take pics in high resolution?? What gives? did the newspaper shrink them to h*ll?

Not stunning quality, but stunning form.

Star and flag to bump this post and get some high resolution pics, if there are any.

Edit: Found his page and saw the high resolution. Great pics!

Originally posted by darkredfish
I can do this easly with a camera and a RC airplane. This guy set his exposure time SUPER low and than flew the airplane in a circle to make the mushroom formation we see in the picture.

could you do like a fact or faked type experiment, and try to show us what you can do? that would be sweet to see.

The highest resolution ones aren`t on the page. But this is pretty interesting, his quote to this pic:

"After 20 mins I looked t the image and saw 4 separate lights in the sky. They are not visible to the naked eye or on a fast shutter speed. Only being picked up after a very long exposure."
The Pic

Let's clear up some things here.

1. The photographer is correct. One photo was taken with a 1 second exposure (although he said 1/3 second), while the other with the long steaks is a 20 minute exposure (actually 21.9 minutes or 1314 seconds)

2. It is a Canon EOS 60D as per the exif data

3. All exif data is available using his Flickr account. You can personally download each file, make sure to get the full size, and then look at the properties.

They look like lens flares but we cannot see the origins using these photos. So unfortunately at this point we are really taking his word that he saw them with his own eyes.

reply to post by samureyed


THANK YOU FOR LOOKING INTO MY DATA BEFORE COMMENTING UNLIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER CHUMPS!

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Thats because it is a Canon EOS 60D fool!

Originally posted by ommadawn


He keeps calling his camera a Canon EOS 60D.
Should be D60, strange error to make.

Nope, he is spot on with that.

reply to post by pazcat


www.canon.co.uk... S_60D/

Click here for more information.

reply to post by Jasonlreeve


Hi Jason I just sent a u2u regarding your sighting. Click messages on ribbon at bottom.

Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by splittheatom

 

If, as it says on the article, that's a 20 minute exposure, where are the stars? Stars would have left trails while they were moving during those 20 minutes.

Unless we are seeing the stars, and as the lights appear out of focus, I guess that's a possibility.

Exactly. I was just about to post the same thing. I have a Canon 550D and I've taken shots of the sky and you can even see the beginnings of trails with a 30 second exposure, so these pictures were even less than that. 20 seconds tops.

Here's a pcture I took with a 30 second exposure.

This is not a 20 minute exposure.

stars are dots, not streaks.

Google image search red sprites.

Stars will streak with a 2 second exposure.

reply to post by RMFX1


He cropped all the stars out of his photos.

The original uncropped 20-minute exposure photograph does show streaks.

reply to post by Illustronic

This is not a 20 minute exposure.

stars are dots, not streaks.

Google image search red sprites.

Stars will streak with a 2 second exposure.

Cigar for you. They are red sprites, imo.

Originally posted by Illustronic
This is not a 20 minute exposure.

One of the photos (the one with the three lights) is a 20 minutes (in fact, it's almost 22 minutes) exposure.

stars are dots, not streaks.

The dots are noise, you can see them in front of the trees in the uncropped version.

Stars will streak with a 2 second exposure.

Only with a very large telephoto lens, in 2 seconds the stars move just 0.0083º across the sky. I have photos in which the stars started to make streaks, but it was a 30 seconds exposure.

reply to post by mishigas


For those to be sprites they would need to remain in the same position for a long time, or else they wouldn't appear in a 20 minutes exposure.