posted on Nov, 11 2010 @ 10:55 PM
I've seen a lot of digital image artifacts and squiggles, and the Stephenville squiggles look like your typical light squiggles from a handheld
camera on zoom setting.
On the subject of digital telephotography and the associated artifacts, I'm gonna post a sequence of unretouched photos that I took in North Carolina
about 3 years ago. These photos were taken using a remote control shutter release over a period of 30 minutes. My hands did not touch the camera, so
it was dead still and there were NO squigglies. Telephoto was set to infinity. Initial sighting time was 3:09 AM (according to the EXIF
data).
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/a863b4ec5b72.jpg[/atsimg]
First Frame — Bright Yellow Disjointed Apparition 3:09 AM
I will add that the white speck and the other red specks you see in every frame must've been defective pixels in the camera's imaging screen,
because I don't think they're lens flares. Didn't notice it until afterwards, but the stationary artifacts aren't completely useless — If
anybody wants to animate it, the pixels make good registers. LOL
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/1442a40dac02.jpg[/atsimg]
Second Frame — Bright Yellow Disjointed Apparition Moves, Turns Red 3:12 AM
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/79332906077c.jpg[/atsimg]
Third Frame — Disjointed Apparition Moves, Appears to Coalesce 3:18 AM
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/5f8333e86f07.jpg[/atsimg]
Fourth Frame — Coalesced Apparition Moves 3:19 AM
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/479457049509.jpg[/atsimg]
Fifth Frame — Colorful Departure 3:35 AM
Nice sequence, eh?
— Zesko Whirligan