What is Explainable? (Camera Anomalies)

Is the world a picture, No it is not! The world is flowing, moving, constantly changing; we adapt and change with it. A picture can only capture life, while video captures living.

The first and most common explanation for a Ghost, beside the Orb is camera anomalies caused by long exposure. Anything over 1/2 second exposure or shutter malfunction, anything moving in front of the lens including people becomes transparent. If you are using night scene on your camera stop unless you use a tripod. When you have something, you do not understand happen with your digital camera look at the original photo as it came from the camera. Look at the EXIF file and it will tell you what camera settings were in place. You may find out why your camera malfunction took place. Most camera anomalies are explainable, and can be avoided by checking the camera settings for lighting conditions with the use of a tripod when taking images in low light for long exposures. Lens hoods can reduce the amount of dust 'Orbs' in your images, and will help protect the lens from adverse weather conditions.

EXIF (EXchangeable Image Format)

Extensions to image file formats that hold the camera settings used to take the picture. Developed in 1995 by JEIDA for JPEG images, EXIF data was added to TIFF, RAW and other formats later. Most digital cameras support EXIF and save the data in the file headers. However, when an image is edited, the software may automatically remove the EXIF data. EXIF reader, which is a utility that used to read, display and save EXIF data from a file.

Motion blurs or double exposures can cause people to look transparent or double image. This is another camera setting error. The image taken during the day or in a well-lit room with the camera set for long exposure with or without the use of a flash.

Light trails or Streamers are elongated streaks of light caused by long exposure, and any light source or reflective surface while in motion traveling through or reproduced throughout the image. It would be unlikely that anyone would have seen anything unusual at the time the picture was taken, and you can say that about any camera anomaly. Then you have the 'vortex' or what I like to call the camera strap or human hair caught in front of the lens. It appears as one or more streaks of light.

Mist: Depending on the lighting, it could just be moisture in the air then there is smoke, and breath. Smoke has a blue tint while Breath; you can tell if the person breathing is a smoker, or non-smoker because the smokers breath has a brown tint commonly mistaken for a manifesting ghost by the more novus paranormal enthusiast. It really does not take a big difference in temperature to cause a mist a lot of time the mist might not even be visible to the naked eye until illuminated by the camera flash. Wet or damp foliage and as little as a 5-degree temperature difference with the proper barometric pressure can also cause mist.

Optical artifacts are inherent imperfections in the optics of all cameras. Ghosts exist in photography caused by an internal reflection in the lens itself looking like another mist although the reflection reduces the frequency in the light source turning the mist a different colors, and is usually directly opposite of a strong light source. One other cause of mists and are the most overlooked, are the contaminants that can end up on the lens itself from fingerprints, dust, and dirt. A smudges on the lens can look like mist. The solution is to clean the camera lens often.

Lens Flair or Glare is a scattering from any light source such as the Sun, the Moon, and fire. Fire especially with the fluctuation of the light source can make the anomaly move around, and has been mistaken for Angels, and Ghosts.