What happened here?

[GeorgieK]

i was out taking pics of one of the cars to whack it up for sale, was tinkering about with the camera and thought for humour value would take a close up of the grill.

it was taken at 2:30ish pm.. so daylight, sun ahead of me, camera was in macro mode, cant recall if there was a flash for this one tho.

camera is a D40x with kit lense on atm.

just dont knwo what i did to cause this!

[Gemm]

The reflected light has caused the camera to under-expose. It can happen either with flash or sunlight when shooting highly reflective surfaces, e.g. glass, mirror, etc.

Edited by Gemm on Tuesday 6th November 21:28

[GeorgieK]

Ta!

was thinking i had broken the camera, only had it a few days.

[cirks]

GeorgieK said:

just dont knwo what i did to cause this!

bet you can't get such a good image of the front of the car again if you actually tried

[jagdpanther]

cirks said:

GeorgieK said:

just dont knwo what i did to cause this!

bet you can't get such a good image of the front of the car again if you actually tried

I was thinking the same thing!

Quite a good effect

[GeorgieK]

hehe. yup. will try with the othe car.. but its black.. so will probally just look crap!

but managed to take some pics of the pub that make me go RAWR at it again and really not want to sell it. i tell you. little throw around cars are underated... especially ones with handbrakes that are *spot on* LOL

[VxDuncan]

Was this cropped?

I'm thinking the centre weighted light meter picked up on the bright part of the headlight, and based the exposure around that brightness, manging the rest of the image dark.

Cool shot though!

[GeorgieK]

had about a inch cropped off the bottom.