 Debbie Crowe |
how to capture ghosting effect I am trying to learn this technique that I have been told about. A person sits in a chair (for example) and the camera prepares to take the shot from a tripot. The person gets up and walks away while the shot is being taken and the effect is a ghost like image walking away. do you use a flash? I have tried adjusting the aperture all the way open and slowed down the shutter speed but I am not getting these results. I have a digital rebel XTI. I have tried with and without the flash. perhaps my room is too dark? I have had the aperture so low, the camera will not focus at all. and does the subject stay still in the picture for so many seconds and then walk away? what am I doing wrong? I want to be able to take these eerie shots for a class I am taking thank you very much. debbie
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You can do it with or without a flash but you do need an extended shutter speed and some continuous light. You can use just continuous light by having a long shutter speed and for the first half while the shutter's open you have the person sit still. Then the 2nd half they get up and move. To use a flash, the flash goes off when you first take the picture. Then the person gets up and moves while the shutter is still open. With the flash, it's easier to get a clear picture of the person in the chair, but you have to balance the exposure of the flash with the light in the room. A good starting point is use an aperture or shutter speed that under exposes one f/stop. And set your flash to under expose one f/stop. To just use room light you just have to expose for that and experiment with how long you have the person sit still during the exposure. Either way you do it, if some articles of light colored clothing, you'll get more of an image to appear. And if your camera has a rear curtain sync option, this allows you to fire the flash at the end of the exposure instead of right when the shutter opens. This makes the still frozen image from the flash appear at a different place relative to where the streaks are.
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Debbie Crowe |
Thank you very much! It took some time and trial and error runs but I was successful in getting the ghost pictures. I am so proud of them and your advice was perfect!
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