Basementgeek

Hi All:

The following pic is of my daughter about 6 weeks after my mother-in-law,
her Grandmother, died.

My daughter is the type that does believe in spirits/ghosts. She often has said that she feels her Grandmother's presence. We had been talking about her that night.

The pic was taken with an older point and shoot Canon digital camera, with flash. Yes we had fire going that night, but the fire was behind me, there was some wind, but I was up wind of it. There was no lights on, in the yard.

Any body have an explanation ? I don't and I have been taking pictures since the early 60's.

BG

Done_Fishin

Was there something shiny hanging in the region of the bright light ?? It looks like the light from the flash bounced off of something, reflecting back into the camera. It was dark and if there was a wind and some string/rope/?? blowing in the breeze, that might explain it ..

Adjusting the colour intensities/Contrast/Brightness/Gamma only proves that everyone is in the garden .. but that "light source" with my experience cannot be defined any better.

The camera may well have been moved while taking the shot which could explain the motions of light .. the flash would have frozen anything in the picture that was not moving , giving some strange affects.

This happened one day when my camera slipped




note that there are large changes and small ones

Done_Fishin

and this is what can happen when you don't wait long enough for your shot to finish

Basementgeek

I will have to find the original pic on the lap top and give you the camera settings. That will take a while.

I did not move the camera as you can see the pic of daughter is in totally in focus.

As far the bright light, on the left, no nothing was there. The only light was the fire behind me. It was dark.

I have seen a few strange marks years ago using and developing film, most likely caused by static electricity when pulling the film out of the canister, but nothing like this, circles.

BG

Done_Fishin

The fact that the "stable" parts of the picture are in focus really means nothing in my experience. I have had more ghosts creep into my pictures "accidentally" than I care possibly to admit. If the camera is stable enough for long enough, the camera will show a nice stable picture for those objects. Objects that move in and out of the picture may look as though they were not really there.

Is there anything on your camera that might have been moving in front of the lens ??
I have occasionally taken shots only to find something I was holding was also in the shot blocking the picture.

ebackhus

I have a picture of my wife that I took a few years back where you can see a stable shot of her and a double "ghost" image of her floating above her. The camera has since gone awol and the pictures are still on it. We're both pretty convinced that our apartment is haunted so once the baby comes and the millions of pictures with her we may see some ghosts.

Basementgeek

I have a picture taken 10 seconds later, according to the saved time. Same subject, does not look I moved. I do see a little smoke, but nothing to explain the rings or the bright light at all.

Below the bright spot, was a table with food on it. Nothing in the area of the bright spot.

I too have had a few strange pic's over the years, but this is the strangest one.

BG

Done_Fishin

In most cases one can see a reason for "the unnatural" in a photo. Since we are talking digital we cannot even blame an earlier shot or the film for the abnormality.

If it's a not a ghost maybe you caught an extraterrestrial flying object "spying" on you and your family.

The funny thing about the shot I showed above is that I don't remember moving before the shot was over but it can only be that .. and it was strange that it was just a few days after we lost my Dad.