[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy]
Can a digital camera double-expose? I thought that was a film trick when the film didn’t advance?
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I played around with double exposures in high school photography class. This would have been easy to do: Just take a picture of the stairwell with your sister holding the handrail, then take another with nobody in the stair well. For best results, use a tripod. Back in the lab, you expose your paper with the sister photo for a second or two, and then expose with the empty stairwell for 6 or 7 seconds. Viola: faint ghost image.
There’s no reason you couldn’t do the same thing on the computer with even low-end software. Just adjust the brightness or transparency of the sister photo and paste it over the empty one. Take about 10 minutes, tops. Sounds like fun actually.
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
It’s still very obviously not a real ghost photo, though.
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Can you point us to an example of a real ghost photo for comparison purposes?
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
For the same reason it shouldn’t be a flying spaghetti monster, a unicorn or a talking carnivorous plant from outer space: these things do not exist in the real world.
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No, those things don’t exist. But ghosts? As persuasive as your post is, no one’s ever really put forth a convincing argument as to why the occasional spirit isn’t hanging out among us. There are arguments why they shouldn’t exist, but none that prove there really aren’t any. Not that I think young Connor actually snapped one- the fingers are a little too well defined, for one thing- but that doesn’t disprove the possibility.
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya]
An image of one as opposed to the real McCoy (or in this case, Tulloch).
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I think you meant ceci, not leci. AFAIK, *leci *is not a French word.
[QUOTE=corkboard]
No, those things don’t exist. But ghosts? As persuasive as your post is, no one’s ever really put forth a convincing argument as to why the occasional spirit isn’t hanging out among us. There are arguments why they shouldn’t exist, but none that prove there really aren’t any. Not that I think young Connor actually snapped one- the fingers are a little too well defined, for one thing- but that doesn’t disprove the possibility.
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What disproves the flying spaghetti monster?
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya]
So I’ve run rings around you logically.
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No, not really.
While I’ve seen neither Moon walks nor ghosts with my own eyes, there is a ton of evidence that the former has occurred, and zero for the latter.
And while I don’t know of everything that exists in the world, there is no reason to assume that just because I’ve never seen that it therefore must exist. I’ve never seen the tyrannosaur in your outhouse. Is that reason to assume that there probably is one?
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy]
Can a digital camera double-expose? I thought that was a film trick when the film didn’t advance?
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I think you can sort of do that trick with a digital camera by doing a long exposure in low light. You then have your “ghost” step into frame, hit them with a flash and then step out.
Or you could just do it in photoshop or The Gimp as others have said.
You can easily place one image on top of another one with digital cameras. Not really a ‘double expousure’ but the effect is similar, or widely different if you choose.
I read the article with an open mind, really I did. I’d love for someone to come up with a credible image of a ghost.
And I was doing fine, until I got to this part:
Having raised three teenagers, one of whom was male, this avowed expression of belief from the teenager’s dad cuts no ice with me.
At all.
And it puts me in mind of this bit from Mark Twain’s Roughing It, on the provenance of the Mormon golden plates. He is reading the Mormon account of the discovery of the golden plates, and commenting (sarcastically) on it:
I could not be more satisfied if the entire Bond family had testified that Connor hadn’t done anything to the picture between the time he sat down at the computer to upload his trip photos, and the time he called his dad’s attention to the one with the “ghost”.
And I too would want to know why a ghost needed a railing.
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
For the same reason it shouldn’t be a flying spaghetti monster, a unicorn or a talking carnivorous plant from outer space: these things do not exist in the real world.
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