Comments on: A Ghost In The Photo?

By: Isela

Isela — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:28:44 +0000

Well, I believe that there was someone talking by cel-phone, look at the highest of the window, maybe. So, who knows jeje! also I want that you look at the light withouth movement; how it looks? pretty! (sorry about my english, It is a second language for me)

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:41:24 +0000

Yes Geoff. The focus locked upon her when she stopped and switched on the torch. The sudden appearance of brightness drew the focal lock to it.

What looks like a very bright porch (not torch) light is an over-long exposure of a possibly very dim, but stationary porch light, the flare around it being produced by the movement of the torch through its location. By then, the woman was also moving out of the frame too quickly to be defined in the overexposed flare section of the image.

It’s possible this could be a manufactured image of two others, who knows? But it can certainly be explained as one image easily enough. Why would anyone go to the trouble of mocking it up, anyhow?

Don’t be so cynical, guys.

By: Rey Roman

Rey Roman — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:34:16 +0000

It was a person with a torch trying to get out of the picture. The image in the chair is just coincidental design, and it was not that dark, there was a frontal lighting, note the reflection of light from the eyeglass.

By: zenobia

zenobia — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:15:46 +0000

at slow shutter speed blurred lights occur if shone when the shutter was open,and the shadow is probably of some one from the fly moving around not aware the shutter is open.

By: david

david — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:47:42 +0000

This picture is a total fake, looks to me like someone has been playing with the opacity of a image of someone singing karakoe hence the hand up to the mouth and the figure is looking down at the screen. Also look at the image everything is badly blured except the figure which would to me suggest a seperate image. tell me what height is a door because god she’s a tall women nearly the same height as the airocon unit. look at the whole image without zooming in her waist is well over the back of the chair when this image is a low level shot. lastly why would anyone need a torch when there is a porch light right there.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:33:02 +0000

Cub is right to the extent that she is too well-defined to have been moving in the dark.

Hows this:
She was probably standing still in the gloom behind the subject, and then ran out of shot to the right, possibly realising that she was in someone else’s photo. She switched the torch on as she went, to illuminate her way!

The environment isn’t all that dark, especially to a dark-adapted eye.

Of secondary interest is that the camera seems to have locked focus on her, rather than the subject.

By: cub

cub — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:34:26 +0000

Diane Kniskern, I’m with you on this.

Call me an amateur if this isn’t right, but even if somebody DID move that fast across the scene, you wouldn’t just get 1reasonably detailed ’snap’ of them, you should get an effect similar to the wavey line, but in the shape of the woman.

Also, if she’s wandering around with the torch lit in a dark environment, she is not going to be moving so fast as to be able to cover that distance in 2 seconds. She’d be going slowly, watching her steps… Maybe she’s looking for something so she’d be scouring the entire ground!

This is either a) a photoshop job done to get a good lesson across, and it is a good lesson with good points, or b) an inaccurate assessment of the anomaly.

By: David Peterson

David Peterson — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:46:12 +0000

I have a larger version of the image here and there is not part of the ‘ghost’ that is in front of the chair. It just looks like it from the angle and shadows.

David.

By: Ian Simpson

Ian Simpson — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:35:13 +0000

“Diane Kniskern says:
This does not make sense to me - a person could not have walked that far in two seconds, especially if each squiggle was a step. And why is part of the image on the chair in which the subject is sitting? ”

October 30, 2006 @ 2:43 am

I am in full agreement with Diane’s statement on both points.

By: hueyna

hueyna — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:42:31 +0000

Do you have another tips for making it?
for creating ghost, double or mirror image..
a person with many hands… etc..
What I know is making it with analog camera. How if I use digital camera?
Thx