Ain't afraid of no ghost

NicoDuranton

Was doing some clean up in my photo library and stumbled upon this picture I took some years ago.



Set up: mirror locked up, remote control & tripod, so there is absolutely no chance of camera shake. EXIF: F8, 5 sec exposure time - cannot recal the ISO
Does anyone has any kind of explanation as to what the hell this weird streak in the middle of picture is? I defintely saw nothing while the picture as being taken, no dust or sudden ray of light whatsoever.

Edit: added the link to the picture since I am under the impression that posting it in the thread does not work...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90063151@N05/8187102109/

Effects

It's just some physical object that moved through the corridor during the 8.5 seconds it took to take the shot. For whatever reason, you just weren't looking at what was happening. It's not a ghost. Ghost's don't exist.

Splinters

Yep must have been something you missed while taking it, especially since its a long exposure shot.

paddylonglegs

A g-g-g-g-ghost???

vic20

Contact Tim Kelly about it

magicbastarder

you're sure there wasn't a spot of water on the lens? if it's an old shot, it's not something you'd remember wiping off for subsequent shots.

dinneenp

They do!

okmqaz42

Yep they are pretty much everywhere...


Where Old Ghosts Meet by Aware of the Void, on Flickr

milos

of course they do

Montos Ghosts by milos5, on Flickr

Porkchop McGee

A brief glare of light from an external source or a technical glitch is less plausible than the soul of a deceased individual residing in the corridor as spectral energy and taking something of physical human form strong enough to reflect light to the extent it could be picked up by a camera but not a human eye? Is that what we're saying?

NicoDuranton

Yes? No? Perhaps? I don't know.
I was just asking if anyone had a precise, rational and/or technical answer to something weird on a picture I took in a creepy place since I am myself unable to explain it.
I've read all the answers going in this direction and none of them quite convince me since I was looking at the scene the camera took a picture from the whole 5 seconds it took to take the picture and would most definitely have spotted whatever left this trace.
The lens was, at this point, new out of the box and clean, so that would rule out the water spot.
So whatever it is, keep guessing. I'll hold off contacting this Tim Kelly fellow yet...

Splinters

A precise and rational explanation is that any number of possible factors could have caused it, theres really no way to tell just from that image.

I can tell you without any shadow of a doubt the explanation is not a supernatural one

humberklog

Dust from the crumbling plaster roof coming into line with the light from the door and your camera's pov would be my guess.

I started (as any grown up should) from the fact that ghosts don't exist and worked my way back from there.

magicbastarder

i think people are focussing on the ghost aspect a bit too much. the only reference the OP made to a ghost was a humorous thread title.

Effects

You can see it's something tracing through the image so it's not plaster falling or dust/dirt/fogging on lens/sensor.

NicoDuranton

Effects wrote: »

You can see it's something tracing through the image so it's not plaster falling or dust/dirt/fogging on lens/sensor.

Exactly my though when I saw the picture. My first reaction was "Camera shake!!" but I remembered that was not possible (Tripod - remote - mirror lock up)
So the mystery remains...

Wossack

swamp gas

NicoDuranton

Wossack wrote: »

swamp gas

ScumLord

It could be spores from all the fungi growing on the walls.