Ghost

Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations said to be haunted.
"Ghost hunter" taking reading with EMF meter ...

A Ghost In The Photo?
"My family and my parents were camping at the Lower Sabie Camp in the Kruger National Park. There, at about 8pm, my mother took the attached photo, using automatic focus and the ‘night time' setting on her camera.

The final collection of images- and ghost stories-has been published in Haunted Houses (2010, Monacelli Press).

This could also be used in a more controlled environment with a focus on producing ghostlike, see-through people. Also, a common problem many people run into when shooting with a flash is that the subject ends up surrounded by darkness.

GHOST IMAGE - In time exposure photography, an object that is only partially recorded on the film and therefore has a translucent, ghost-like appearance.

Ghost Flowers
X-ray, or radiographic, photography has been around most of a century. However, due to cost and access to equipment, there are very few photographers in the world capable of creating these images.

Ghosting
There was a lot of discussion when the A55 was released of an issue known as 'ghosting'. This was evident in early SLT cameras, and took the form of faint 'ghost' images of bright highlights in some images.

Ghosting
Generation
Each stage of a reproduction as it is changed from its original state.

ghosting
(1) an image of the printed design or copy that extends beyond the limits of the stencil, usually with less ink deposition than the intended print area, caused by the slight creeping of improperly stretched screen mesh; ...

Ghosts, typical. Disk of Sun in upper right. (f/11, D300). bigger.
I can't get ghosts, even with the sun in the image.

Ghosting
A camera lens is a combination of several lenses. Ghosting is caused by the stray reflections inside the lens of strong light sources like direct sunlight. It occurs as the result of taking pictures against backlight (or semi-backlight).

-Ghost images - bright spots of light, often taking the shape of the aperture, which appear in the camera viewfinder or in the final photograph when a lens is pointed at a bright light like the sun.

Ghosts of 1929 ( and the flash)
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Artistic conception and what do you want to do with your photography? and your art?

Ghost images or images of the diaphragm have much more to do with the design of the lens than with coatings, although coating will reduce the effect when it is present. I have several old, uncoated lenses which do not produce ghost images.

Ghost Town Charm
Excellent lighting.
Ansel Adams
One of the most famous contemporary black and white photographers. Classic! ...

Ghost (from long camera exposure) watching the Northern Lights with Reykjavik city light ...

Ghost Image - A light, secondary image caused by an error (overexposure. inadequate shutter speed) or by a faulty lens or shutter.
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Ghost images and lens flare.
Bright spots of light, often taking the shape of the aperture, which appear in the camera viewfinder or in the final photograph when a lens is pointed at a bright light like the sun; ...

'Ghost deer'. Time exposure of a wild hind and fawn, taken in the half light of early morning. 4 seconds at f 5.6, Fujichrome 400 ASA.
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Create "ghosts" in your camera
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When little gouls and goblins come knocking tonight, be prepared with a photographic treat that you can enjoy all year long. Grab ghostly shots of your subjects by using flash and long exposure.

Haunted Ghost
Really an inspiring post.Am moving on with my decision of becoming a freelancer :)
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Flare and ghostings are a major problem in contra-light situations. The problem is caused by reflected light - either from the lens elements or the inside of the lens barrel. There are certain techniques to reduce these reflections: ...

HARLEQUIN GHOST PIPEFISH. The harlequin ghost pipefish looks this weird for a reason. By effectively mimicking the shape of a gorgonian stalk, it can hide in ambush for its prey, and likewise hope for invisibility from its predators.

A couple excellent tools for doing that are Norton Ghost 9 (unlike Version 8, version 9 runs fully within Windows) or Retrospect backup software which comes with a handy Drive Duplicate function (I wish my normal backup software, ...

Learn more about ghost-looking white spots that appear in some flash photos.
Fill-in flash
You may not think to use a camera flash outside. Think again.

Ramsdens often have prominent ghosts. The simplest form of Ramsden consists of two identical simple lenses, each flat on one side and convex on the other, facing each other with convex sides inward, ...

HALATION -A halo or ghost image surrounding the true image of a bright object on a photographic emulsion, caused by reflection of rays of light from the back of the negative material.

Using high speed flash for my background coverage and 1/200 of a second for my shutter speed eliminates the possibility of ghost images. All of this can be accomplished with TTL flash metering for all three flash units.

In the early days of computing, if you left a monitor on for a long time a ghostly image of whatever was on the screen would be burned into it. Even when the monitor was off, you could still see the image burned into the screen's phosphor.

Next, it is ideal to use a tripod to shoot your multiple exposures because you don't want your hand to move the camera significantly between successive exposures, or there will be "ghosts" created in the final HDR image.

If you notice foggy or ghostly images or total black out, it was the result of X-ray. Best protection is hand inspection. In US and Canada, you have the right to request for hand inspection.

There are other alternatives such as Norton Ghost (Ghost - Casper, see the connection...). I like Casper XP. It clones my primary drive to an external Firewire drive at a speed of around 1.

When scale focusing became my Nemesis, I dumped the submersible for a housed SLR system that lasted me until the camera gave the ghost (I still have the widowed housing, the camera is no longer made, they are *dedicated*, you know).

Flare and ghosting can be issues shooting into the light, resulting in lower contrast images.

Dark, non-reflective clothes will help avoid âEËœghosting,âEâ"¢ your see-thru after-image that appears if you walk in from of the camera during exposure. This is only a concern in scenes with some ambient light.
Film speed.

Clear or "UV" filters are good for protecting lenses, but uncoated ones can cause horrible ghosting and flare spots.

Turn them into ghostly figures ... or perhaps make them "disappear" entirely! ...

Ghost Image or Ghosting A double image that results from using flash in relatively bright light at a low shutter speed. The two images, one from the ambient light and a second from the flash, do not perfectly coincide.

This simple image of an old railroad car in a ghost town doesn't look like it would present any particular problems. However, a 100% crop of the sharpened image (see Figure 3) shows a major sharpening challenge.

There, the frogfish, seahorse, ghostpipefish, scorpionfish, filefish and other hirsute species are easily found.

You can go to Amazon or Borders and find many photography books, but a lot of them are written in a more complicated style, usually by Ghost-writers with University Degrees in English (and the complex, flowery language to match).

The lens features Super Electronic Beam Coating (EBC), the original coating system of Fujinon that keeps ghosting and flare to a minimum to promise optimal picture quality.

Next, if you have any objects that were moving between your three shots, you will need to tick "Attempt to reduce ghosting artifacts", "Background movements.

Flare is a general description of a variety of ghost images, colour spots, halos and haze that appear in the final image and in many cases is a result of a direct sunlight or other strong light hits directly the front element of your lens, ...

To prevent flare and ghosting, get the multicoated variety.
However, as one progresses in photography and more so if hooked on landscape photography, ...

The depositing of multiple coats of anti-reflective materials on a lens surface to reduce ghost images and flare produced by internal reflections and insure faithful color rendition; in the Nikon Integrated Coating system, ...

In Photoshop CS5, for example, the Merge-to-HDR-Pro feature is what you use to import the multiple images, so you can then add various effects to the newly merged photo. For instance, when you check the 'Remove Ghosts' box, ...

Linux distributions almost always come with Ghostscript already installed (not necessarily the most recent version). For other operating systems, you may have to install it yourself. Here are instructions for installing it on Windows: ...

The blurry, grainy view from Niépce's villa window is hard to see in the Web site's gallery, but the ghostly image still made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

an animal (with the proper lighting) that appears ghostly
an old bone lying on the grass
road kill at a low angle so that it appears eye level in the print.

When you look through the viewfinder at a bright object you'll see two dim ghost images. Adjust the focus until the images overlap, then remove the cardboard. You'll probably need to experiment with hole size and placement for this to work well.

A 10 second exposure produces streaked lines of headlights and a ghost of a car that was parked for half of the exposure.
Aperture, or 1, 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, erm, what the f***?

Go to page 133: How to deal with flaring and ghosting particular to digital photography
for a technical explanation on why glass in front of your lens will affect the optical quality.

During the 1/3 of a second that the exposure took place, you see both parts of the scene, without the train (see how the palm trees appear ghost-like through the train) and then with the train.

If there was movement in your photograph, check 'Attempt to reduce ghosting artifacts,' which sometimes helps.

4 Click OK, and let Photomatix go to work. This can take some time, depending on the speed and power of your computer.

Lens hood
A short conical shaped tube that attaches to the front of a lens to shield it from extraneous light. Helps prevent lens flare, ghost images and loss of contrast. An inexpensive must have accessory for your camera system.

Many ruined photos are blamed on focus, when if fact the real culprit is usually camera shake. Here is how you can tell the difference: If you seeing ghost "doubles" on the image, you can be sure the problem is camera-shake.

You don't want the incoming light to shine directly into your lens producing ghostlike blobs.

Used with digital imaging, low-pass filters are integrated into many digital sensors to suppress color ghosting and the effects of infra-red light.
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As such, any internal reflections in the lens can create ghosting and other artifacts if not sufficiently controlled. To help do so, lenses designed for digital tend to have improved coatings on their elements.

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