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Off-topic TalkWhere overpaid, underworked S2000 owners waste the worst part of their days before the drive home. This forum is for general chit chat and discussions not covered by the other off-topic forums.
Okay peeps... y'all asked for it!!! Now is when the $hit gets wicked.
I was up visiting my sister in Fairfield, CT in October. She has this old Revolutionary War cemetary by her house, so we get the bright idea to go take pictures in the cemetary at night. It's Halloween time and we're feeling spunky, so we go over.
I take a picture and it kinda freaks me out, but I soon discover it's just my breath. Here it is:
It was cold and I exhaled in front of the camera. I took lots of pictures that night and most of them were just plain old tombstones. THEN... I get this picture.
The edges are smooth, very white, and BEHIND the tombstone. It could be breath, but it doesn't look anything like the other breath pictures I took. BULL$HIT OR NOT?! YOU DECIDE!!!!
Once explained to me a looooongggg time ago: I think this is the concept of parralax (sp?) of light.
The first picture you took of the cold breath, the light shoots through the gas and it appears misty and opaque. However, the second picture is where the breath is off to the side of the source of light. The light bounces off (rather than inflects through) the gas. The light bouncing off gives the gas more substance.
that's a cool theory. I've never heard of that. I have some of those 'orb' pictures too. I see those on ghost sites and TV programs about ghosts. I caught them at the Bunnyman Bridge in Clifton, VA.
Pe...rleeease!!LOL. Lets not break out the Holy water and wooden stakes just yet!
Luder. Parallax is the apparent difference in position of an object when seen from different viewpoints. It's simply demonstrated for most of us with normal vision, having a stronger 'master' eye. Simply view an object with one eye closed then close that eye and open the other, to see the object apparently move sideways, or alternate between the two eyes to see the object flick back and forth. Parallax is the reason that heads were 'cut off' photos in simple viewfinder cameras, due to the difference in the view seen by the viewfinder to that seen by the lens. It's still one of the best reasons for buying an SLR, as you look through the lens....No parallax problem .
Shank Flanker: I don't accept that the second 'cloud' is behind the gravestone, I think it's actually in front. I think in the first shot, the breath mist was more dissipated, and the flash from the camera being more direct has penetrated it fairly easily. In the second shot, the mist is less dissipated (denser) and off to one side. It has acted rather like a white reflector in the that the flash being less direct has reflected off it.
Good post though! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many others were taken in by trick photos and double exposures showing spooks and fairies at the bottom of the garden. Today most of them can be shown to be fakes or questionable at best.
Just think though, what can be done today in Photoshop! I feel a thread coming on!!
