I just read the brown lady topic! The photo is pretty good and i am very positive thats it's geniune!
Look at the detail of this 1930 photo it just astounds me. Of course I saw this very photo years ago
and it had no detail at all. and the size was half that. In truth the photo has been doctored,seriously
look at the detail from a 1930's photo. How many believe that you could get that kind of clairty even
with todays digital age? This photo has been altered it is not the original.
The original may have been genuine in that it wasn't deliberately faked and copies may have been enhanced for effect but it still doesn't mean that we have a ghost there.
It could well be the camera leaking light and pareidolia doing the rest.
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A yeah but I was being sarcastic when saying this! If you look at the rest of my comment you will see.Originally Posted by John Jackson
The original may have been genuine in that it wasn't deliberately faked and copies may have been enhanced for effect but it still doesn't mean that we have a ghost there.
It could well be the camera leaking light and pareidolia doing the rest.
Welcome to the forum btw.
And it was enhanced no doubt but someone took some real libertys with the enhancement. The original I saw yearsThe original may have been genuine in that it wasn't deliberately faked and copies may have been enhanced for effect but it still doesn't mean that we have a ghost there.
It could well be the camera leaking light and pareidolia doing the rest.
Welcome to the forum btw.
ago was half that size and there were no features. It just looked like glare!
If you're referring to Alan Murdie's FT article, then the picture he printed would have been taken from an original glass plate negative. A mutual friend had the original and Alan would probably have used this for the article.
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The Brown Lady is probably the most famous ghost photo and also the least convincing!
When the photo was taken, film (or plates) was much slower than today. To take a photo like that in a gloomy indoor location would have taken many seconds or even minutes of exposure (though it could be shortened by the use of a flash). Many such plates were doubtless ruined by someone walking briefly into the shot, stopping for a second and then moving on, producing exactly the kind of result you see. These photos would have been thrown away as useless. So why wasn't this one?
The only reason the photo was kept was because of the story that went with it. It is said that flash was used on the photo, and there is evidence (highlights) that it was. However, the shutter would still have been open for several seconds in total. The shutter would have been manually opened, the flash unit set off, then the shutter closed (again manually). If the photographer was distracted, the shutter could have been open for many seconds. Had someone been on the stairs briefly during any part of this period (but not for the rest), particularly for the flash, they would have appeared transparent. It is even simpler to produce such photos nowadays.
So the whole ghost element here comes down to accuracy of the photographers' memory. I have often come across anomalous photos where the only 'paranormal' element is the story surrounding the photo. Witness testimony is, of course, incredibly unrealiable (it should be banned from the legal system!). While the photo appears to back up the story in this case, it could be the other way round. The photo may have been developed first and prompted the 'memory'. This is complete speculation but it is difficult to say much so long after the event.
The take-away message is this. A photograph is (more or less) an objective record of how light fell at a particular moment in time. An anecdote that goes with the photo is, of course, entirely subjective. In such cases, I go with the photo every time. In this case it simply looks like someone stepping briefly into, and out of, a long exposure. As for the official story that goes with it, that's up to individual judgement.
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