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Please look at this, are these orbs?
I took this outdoors, not using flash. This is from film. After it was developed I saw all these strange, inexplicable forms. I did not see ANYTHING with my eyes, and my husband said he didn't see them at the time either. Are they here from the afterlife? Should I send this to a ghost hunting site?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12604020@N05/22159181...
Thanks for helping.
Actually, I don't think it is dust on my lens. Later I will post a followup image and link so you can see why I don't believe this to be dust.
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- Picture TakerLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Flare? FLARE??? It's a GHOST with a flare for the dramatic. Ara, this is the first picture that really has me convinced that it is a ghost.
"Nice capture."
- 1 decade ago
With 100 percent certainty it is Flare.
The larger light areas on the left are from the light hitting the front element of the lens, as those scale down it is the light hitting the inner elements that are causing the medium light areas.
This matches exactly to the angle of the point source of light.
Now the other smaller ones could be a variety of things.Most likely At the angle you have the light coming into the lens some of this light then will be refracted back toward the front element of the lens, which in turn then could be reflected back to the film plane.
Nothing special here, Just ordinary lens flare
- The Violator!Lv 61 decade ago
No, you are shooting into a light source, the sun, which is highlighting specks of dirt and dust on your lens and / or your lens filter... they need a good clean or you need to remove your filter when shooting strongly contra jour (into light). You wouldn't necessarily notice it unless you stopped down your aperture using Depth of Field Preview before you took your shot.
- 1 decade ago
Nah. It's because you're kinda shooting directly into the light which shows the specs of dirt and dust found on your lens.
Don't freak out now. =D
- Perki88Lv 71 decade ago
The position of the sun striking your lens is causing this. There are also a few specks of dust on your lens.
- 1 decade ago
The little orbs look like it could be from the light source/dust, but what about the little ghost-like figure that looks like it's rising from the center of the photo?
- TerisuLv 71 decade ago
OMG! Call the Ghost Hunters! That little wispy guy in the middle is so cute, by the way.