The sun is 93 million miles away, so I don't think the difference in angle relative to the sun is enough to be significant. The angle from camera to (presumed) target will be.
I think it reads a bit better as a sun reflection if you invert it.
Pro tip, Sitrec now has quite a lot of video adjustments, including levels and curves, and a histogram with clipping indicators. There's a more video-focused entry point at...
Many years ago when our kids were small we wallpapered a bathroom with a cutesy baby-animal motif. A visitor told us how hard it was to perform at all with a little fox right over the toilet, looking downward.
Classy compared to what I have (or had) stuck up on the inside of the door. Mine was a poster advertising a godsquad/nazi-organised anti-vax rally that happened during the covid years. As a memento of a twisted part of modern history that we...
I think it reads a bit better as a sun reflection if you invert it.
Pro tip, Sitrec now has quite a lot of video adjustments, including levels and curves, and a histogram with clipping indicators. There's a more video-focused entry point at...
Yes, I think so (caveat, my knowledge of photography is practically zilch),
Veiling Flare
Veiling flare usually occurs when the bright light source is outside the lens angle of view, i.e. absent from the image, but its light rays still reach the...
Many years ago when our kids were small we wallpapered a bathroom with a cutesy baby-animal motif. A visitor told us how hard it was to perform at all with a little fox right over the toilet, looking downward.
It looks like a butterfly to me
Maybe American Snout, the wing shape and pattern is a good match, and butterflies when backlit often show more of the top pattern than the bottom pattern as they are slightly translucent -
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As you didn't notice the object at the time, maybe it wasn't as visually striking "in the real world" as it appears in the photos.
You raised another possibility, that the object travelled so fast that it traversed your field of view faster than...