Friday, 27 April 2012

Home-made Ghost

My first attempt came from a spur of the moment shoot, I took shots in around my house (mainly the bathroom) in the middle of the night. I initially planned to create the ghostly effect by taking a picture of the background and then Photoshop'ing a silhouette into the image but I discovered that by using a thirty-second exposure I could create a ghost-like figure by leaving the image after 15 seconds. I experimented with the composition of this shot, choosing to take it from a lowered angle to accentuate my height and also to ensure it didn't look staged and it was more remniscent of the 'found footage' effect paranormal photography generally takes on. I left the bathroom light on because it acted as fill light aswell as providing some interesting detail inside the apparition to almost prove that it's a ghost in the image.

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