Explain this to me, so I can explain this to him.

[e.rose]

Okay so there's a photographer that shoots at a club that the boys play at... so I run into him from time to time, and he posted two photos to my facebook wall inquiring about marks on the photos.

I don't really know him well enough to know if he was joking, trying to be philosophical, or really trying to make a case for ghost orbs in photos

Anyway, this is the first shot he showed me:

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...0137489217612_594037611_6609659_7410426_n.jpg

I said it was either dust or dirt on the lens catching light from somewhere or just a light flair in general.

Then he posted a second one (http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...0139119367612_594037611_6624406_2006611_n.jpg) asking: "So if the white dots ARE dust, how come they are all perfectly round?"

:er:

It just looks like a dirty lens to me. But I don't know for sure. Someone give me a logical explanation, that is more convincing than mine... because apparently my reasoning the first time around wasn't solid enough for him.

 

[480sparky]

Airborne dust close to lens so they're OOF.

 

[vivalaveritas]

Yep. Just dust catching light.

 

[dylanstraub]

"Airborne dust close to lens so they're OOF."
That seems plausable enough to me.

 

[Vinny]

I think its lens flair coming from a reflection from the mixer sitting on top of the speaker. If you look at the big knob to the right on the mixer it has a lot of light it's reflecting off of it. It could be dirt on the lens as well but my first guess is lens flair.

 

[480sparky]

When you work in construction, you see it all the time:

 

[KmH]

"So if the white dots ARE dust, how come they are all perfectly round?"

As mentioned...Because they are way out-of-focus.

 

[PhotoWrangler]

Reflections of specular highlights?

 

[dnavarrojr]

Aliens from Zortan that are slightly out of phaze with visible light and can only be seen when you stop light altogether by taking a picture.

 

[mwcfarms]

We see this in our dirt floor riding arena. Dust thats out of focus. Its probably not inside the lens but dust outside I would think

 

[lyonsroar]

Is it possible it's dust on a UV filter?

I'm not a believer in UV filters so I don't use them. IDK if that's possible or not...

 

[CCericola]

Dust on the lens.

 

[480sparky]

If it's dust on the lens, then all the images would have the same size spots in every single frame.

 

[DennyCrane]

ANY chance it's mist? I get those when I go to Niagara Falls... but dust seems more logical.

 

[photocist]

obviously ghosts