Showing posts with label fake. Show all posts
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Monday, January 7, 2008

Not all things creepy are supernatural: Ghost photos

One of the great mainstays of paranormal research, serious and otherwise, is the ghost caught on film. Usually that film is a set of still images showing a vague, misty shape, like a blob. Some are more spectacular. And much more scary.

There's a Video on YouTube that sets a slide show of such photos to appropriately creepy music.

But are they real? Any of them? I really can't say, though I would have to say that there's a pretty good chance that at least some of them are fake. (I'd even be willing to bet a few cents that most are.)

The thing is that ghost photos are very easy to fake. Particularly for an online audience. There's even a website on How to make a fake ghost photo.

It's really very complete, including such classics as cellophane over the lens and more high-tech Photoshop techniques.

The one they don't cover is the double exposure. This is great at getting ghostly effects, and I suspect the source of a lot of the photos in the above slide show.