OT: Paranormal Photos

ray_g said:
Now it gets more interesting. Look at the haziness of the photo on the right side, and the shadow behind the girl on the very right. And look at the bottom right corner of the photo.
Not quite sure I'm seeing anything weird. Slow sync will kinda do that weird stuff.

Jeez, this pictures look like we are related. That could be my cousins or something.
 
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Hmm, dunno what to think of these, Ray. On the last one, if that's the right one, you really have to look for a headless priest in white to recognize it in that white glare. That's what I mean about people's mind.
As to the orbs...they are certainly there as light, but I have no idea if they are supranatural or just optics... If i brighten up the second image a lot, i see even much more of them.
 
The "orbs":

Dust reflecting the flash light wich flares as its coming straight in front of the lens... Go in a old barn and take a bunch of flash pictures (stir up some dust for a picture or two jsut to make a real mess ) and you'll probably get these.
 
The orbs look like reflections, the odd shadow looks like it is cast from multiple light sources. Digital Sensors reflect more than film, and will sometimes reflect flash back onto the lens. The last one seems to be the flash reflecting off of the door.

The only one I can't explain is the face in the porch floor in the picture at the front door. Might be one of the Heads!
 
And I'm just not seeing the rest of it... slow sync speed is the only supernatural thing here 😀 😉
 
I kinda suspected you were pulling our collective legs all along the way...
Nothing but side-effects from using flash - reflections of dust particles, slow-synch effects, light reflected by a tile wall, etc...
Now, if I look at some of the color prints I'm getting recently from my cheapo drugstore lab, there's much more suprenatural to be suspected - and not exactly benevolent forces at work... 😉

Roman
 
Well, as Pherdi said, the mind does a lot to precondition your response. I certainly have had my share of experiences in that house. Roman's experience with his drugstore lab brings out a different conditioned response 😉

Interesting to read your explanations. Anyone else with some photos or stories?
 
I didn't even see that Brian. Eric, look at the group photo, at the lower right.
 
I think that it is the flash at play, but why would the identical stair shots be different?

OT again, photos and ghosts are weird to capture. There was one photo where you had to stare at the window and table, but sort of unfocused like you were doing "Magic Eye," before you saw the apparition. The people who took it have the accompanying sounds too (I think it was from a home in Maine), which is basically just low noise, but it gets spooky after a while. You can check out the photo here.
 
Wether these can be explained by reflection, etc., or not, the camera is seeing something that you are not. More precisely, it is making YOU see something that you didn't before. At root I think that's most of our interest in photography. It gives us new views and views into things we don't normally see.

Check out this photo: http://www.dominic.lefave.net/pinholes/Abernethy/abernethy02.htm
 
Stet, you're now responsible for a bunch of white hairs in my head...

Of course I already emailed it to a couple friends 😛
 
Ray,

Sorry, nothing paranormal going on. Those orbs are dust on the sensor of your Panasonic DMC-L33. I get the same thing on my Canon Powershot Pro 1. These all contained cameras are not impervious to dust getting in and on the sensor. The haziness is flare.

Dust on the sensor and between the lens elements can cause haziness and flare as well.

In case you are wondering how I know what camera you are used, I downloaded one of your images and opened it in Photoshop and looked under file info.


Cheers mate.

Keith
 
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