The Bugmaster
.:The Ghost of a Lady:.
A moment more - and the vision of her began to grow dim. By slow degrees, the figure, then the face, faded back into the shadowy appearance that I had first seen. The luminous inner light died out in the white mist. The mist itself dropped slowly downwards - floated a moment in airy circles on the floor - vanished. Nothing was before me but the familiar wall of the room, and the photograph lying face downwards on my desk.
From Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins.
This is all one exposure. No trick. No photoshop. Well... maybe there's a trick. But the trick is knowing how to use your camera (and looking at a lot of photos from creative people, because else wise I would have never thought of it).
Equipment: Camera. Tripod. Shutter release.
This exposure is about 18 seconds long in a room lit by a ceiling fan. What I did was, first: Set the camera to the highest aperture that I could (so that it's in focus). Second: Turn it to bulb mode. Third: Begin the exposure. Fourth: Halfway through I take the lens cap, put it over the lens (to keep light from coming in, which would create a streaked look when zooming) and zoom the lens in as far as I can. Then I take the lens cap off and leave it for another nine seconds and stop the exposure. Now you know.
You might want to give that a try sometime.
.:The Ghost of a Lady:.
A moment more - and the vision of her began to grow dim. By slow degrees, the figure, then the face, faded back into the shadowy appearance that I had first seen. The luminous inner light died out in the white mist. The mist itself dropped slowly downwards - floated a moment in airy circles on the floor - vanished. Nothing was before me but the familiar wall of the room, and the photograph lying face downwards on my desk.
From Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins.
This is all one exposure. No trick. No photoshop. Well... maybe there's a trick. But the trick is knowing how to use your camera (and looking at a lot of photos from creative people, because else wise I would have never thought of it).
Equipment: Camera. Tripod. Shutter release.
This exposure is about 18 seconds long in a room lit by a ceiling fan. What I did was, first: Set the camera to the highest aperture that I could (so that it's in focus). Second: Turn it to bulb mode. Third: Begin the exposure. Fourth: Halfway through I take the lens cap, put it over the lens (to keep light from coming in, which would create a streaked look when zooming) and zoom the lens in as far as I can. Then I take the lens cap off and leave it for another nine seconds and stop the exposure. Now you know.
You might want to give that a try sometime.