Orbs in pictures????????

I've been a serious amateur photographer since I was 15 (and that was a LONG time ago). Trust me, "orbs" are dust, pollen, or just general shmutz on the camera lens or negative, or as scifiguy points out, floating past the lens. Also, a phenomenon known as "lens flare" can produce circular highlights on a print, especially if the sun or a very strong light is hitting the lens when the picture is being taken. I hate to disappoint anyone, but there's nothing supernatural about it.

Want to produce a picture full of "orbs?" Go outside during a snowstorm and take a flash picture. It will look like an orb convention.

First off, true orbs are not considered angels. But ghosts. Now that that has been established. For an orb to be a true paranormal event it has to meet three criteria. 1) must be three dimensional. 2) must provide its own light source. 3) must move under its own power.

Now the best way to determine this is to run a few scientific tests. Check the atmospheric conditions is the most important. Even a slight breeze is enough for dust to be accelerated across the room.

If your camera or video is using a flash or light. It will reflect off dust. Making the appearance of an orb. But a trained eye can easily distinguish this. It is also important to note that in Video, Insects like moths are not easily recognized by the camera. This tends to be over compensated by the camera adding extra light to the object. Creating an orb. Putting the footage on a computer and pulling the image apart will help in figuring out what you have.

Finally, it should be noted that in almost all instances. Orbs can be attributed to both of the things I listed above. But there have been some instances where the orbs could but be contributed to either dust or insects. And have been accompanied by other events.

Hope this helps.

They're dust particles, reflecting light. I'd LIKE it to be angels, but..... You notice the effect that bright sunlight has on camera lenses? the bright blur... with streaks etc? It's the same principle.

The effect begins similar to how we can see dust particles floating is a shaft of light from a window, but not in a normally lighted room. The anomoly on film is this but with a flashbulb as the source. The light coming back to the camera lense is distorted like with the first analogy, and what began as a dust particle is now distorted by the lense to look like a glowing orb

As a photographer, I can assure you that the only way to get an orb (whatever that is) is to find one, then photograph it.

Other circular objects in photos might be plates, balls, the moon, and artifacts due to dirt, film processing problems, lens flair, and so on.

Is an orb like a bro, sort of?

They are usually dust particles floating through the air with light reflecting off of them. Since they are out of focus, they look like blurry little spheres.

I agree its more likely dust on the camera Lens.

dust particals gets my vote.