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Is it smoke??? What is it?

Is it smoke?

No it's light reflection from a flash and concrete..... Tell me what you think? Hey look, it's Kevin, I know I am right. I wanna know what you think.

See the GofAZ picture here. IS IT SMOKE?


Kevin

P.S. Do these to pics have any similarities?
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AZ Ghost People of Arizona

I would like to announce a webpage of great importance.

http://azhunters.webs.com/

Kevin is back from his long trip to Mexico and Jamaica. Please stay tuned for stories and photos of these 2 wonderful long trips.



Thanks,
Kevin

Photography and the Paranormal

As we take in photos from a possible haunt situation, it is in our best interest to take several possible things into consideration.

A digital camera has a really important feature, you can see the photos right now. When you snap a photo, stop take a second and peek at the LCD viewfinder and see if you notice anything abnormal. If you notice anything such as streaks of light, orbs, transparent figures, and other possible things right away try to find a possible source. I have seen numerous, literally thousands, to where people have seen transparent figures and it is nothing more than long exposure time. Same goes for streaks of light.

A camera has numerous settings and one of them are Auto as well as night or low light setting. When you are in a dark or darkened situation and the camera is in Auto or Night mode there is something the camera does. Its extends its exposure time to collect more light to enhance the picture. The camera will first, flash, and then stay open for anywhere from a half a second to 3 seconds. This creates a really neat effect actually. Let me break it down. When the camera flashes it collects that light source for as long as the flash is lit, thousandths of a second, and freezes whatever is in the flashes frame. Then the camera stays open to collect whatever there is for light. At this very moment you are holding the camera, your hand is either moving, your dropping the camera, or tilting to see the viewfinder. Anything that is giving off residual light is actually moving in the cameras open shutter or "hot" sensor. People and objects will appear transparent, light sources will appear to stretch, and sometimes everything else will appear blurry. There is even instances of this exact thing happening on a website the person actually was using a Mini-Mag in candle mode to light an area. His camera was in night mode and every time the photographer, assuming an amateur, would drop the camera as soon as they seen it flash assuming the camera was done. In actuality, in night mode, it picked up the surroundings during the flash and froze them, and the flashlight streaked. This created a visual of a stream of light shooting from the light because the camera was exposed for about 3 seconds.

All of this can be avoided with a very very easy to find item. A tripod or even a monopod will help. Another helpful tip is to hold the camera for as long as you possibly can or set it on a table or other surface in timer mode. If you read the camera manual, it may tell you how long it remains exposed in certain situations. That's how long you must wait before you move it.

Orbs is another story. Orbs are usually stray things floating in the air that the flash if reflecting off of. You ever sit in a room and there is a ray of light shining through the window and you see the dust floating through the ray? Your eyes are doing the same thing, except the human eye is able to focus on this, so what you see is dust and particulates. Now on the camera end, the flash is reflecting from the particulates and the camera is unable to pick them up focused and you get a blurry circle. The camera was already focused on a particular object, so anything out of the focal range is going to appear blurry, especially dust that is close to the lens when the flash pops. There is rarely ever a pic with "orbs" that they didn't use the flash.

Mist, I am actually working on an article involving mist. On this particular paranormal site, there is pictures of mist, and in one of them, an individual is smoking. So I am going to rule his pictures out as.... Wait for the article, its coming real soon.

One thing to remember, debunk your own photos before somebody else does. If they don't I will. If you cant debunk them, then that's a photo worth posting to the internet or your website.


Kevin