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Add a layer in a program like Photoshop, position it above the landscape layer, drop in another image in the new layer and set its opacity low. Generate an image file and voila, a ghost.
My guess: either a publicity stunt, or a prank played on the photographer by a coworker.
I just saw an explanation as to how the "ghost" may have gotten in the picture.
The photographer stated no one was there before he snapped the picture, but that more than likely is not the case.
Someone could have been there either seconds before, or after the lens was opened to take the shot.
With what I just saw on tv, the subject was having her picture taken in the corner of a room.
Just as the camera snapped the picture she stepped away from the camera.
Before the lens fully closed, it snapped the ghostly image of her.
The image came out looking just like the one in this image which is the subject of this thread.
The person taking the picture explained that the camera lens was timed for a specific amount of seconds, and that the image of the girl was still captured by the camera, even though she had stepped out of view of the lens.
Bob.
I just saw an explanation as to how the "ghost" may have gotten in the picture.
The photographer stated no one was there before he snapped the picture, but that more than likely is not the case.
Someone could have been there either seconds before, or after the lens was opened to take the shot.
With what I just saw on tv, the subject was having her picture taken in the corner of a room.
Just as the camera snapped the picture she stepped away from the camera.
Before the lens fully closed, it snapped the ghostly image of her.
The image came out looking just like the one in this image which is the subject of this thread.
The person taking the picture explained that the camera lens was timed for a specific amount of seconds, and that the image of the girl was still captured by the camera, even though she had stepped out of view of the lens.
Bob.
Typically if the shutter is open for an extended period of time, long enough for someone to move, the moving object is blurred. That goes for both film and digital cameras.
I don't believe such an exposure is even possible with a digital camera. There is no way for there to be a double exposure. But with a film camera, it's possible. However, a night shot requires either fast film or long exposure times- and a tripod. It could have happened while setting up for the shot. A accidental bit of the button and not advancing the film then taking the long shot.
But I wonder, what professional photographer regularly uses film cameras anymore? Unless of course you want to have such effects as double exposure. Then again, Photoshop can replicate this as well.
It's my unoffical job to debunk ghost photos on the forum but this time I'm 100% sure it's a real, authentic, true ghost picture.
Clearly this is the soul of a deceased jock from Hasmonean High School. He most likely died in the 80's while driving home from a new years party in his new Reliant Robin, when it rolled into the Thames on that spot on a similarly cold January morning long ago.
I don't know about digital SLR cameras but this is fairly simple to do with a film SLR camera - I did a few pictures similar to this in high school with my younger brother being the "ghost." I used both long exposure times with him walking in and out of the frame at night and some double exposures to create the effect. I never claimed my pictures were of real ghosts. I had a huge interest in special effects and ghost photos at the time. Most of them didn't turn out the way I wanted, but a few turned out looking very much like this photo.
I've come to the conclusion long ago, that if someone doesn't believe, they're simply not going to believe any "ghost" photo, regardless of the story, or what the photographer claims. How many times have I heard people say... "That's supposed to be a ghost? It looks like a pixilated mess! Why are the photos always so blurry? That could be anything." Then the same people are shown a photo of a exceptionally clear "ghost" photograph showing what clearly is a human form with the photographer swearing on a stack of bibles that what he / she took is absolutely unexplainable, and not messed with in any way, and they'll say... "Oh come on... It's obviously fake, it looks to real." So, you can't win. Nothing will convince a non believer, because they simply can't except the possibility that any such thing could possibly exist in the first place.
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