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The Vanishing Lamplighter - Long exposure

Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Uploaded by Lottie

Image credit: (Copyright expired) archive image

Uploader comment: The first ghosts in photographs were the result of accidents. During a long exposure--such as those required in photography's infancy--a person who stood still would register as clearly as a building. But a person who moved out of camera range after only a portion of the exposure was completed would instead appear as a see-through blur.

Image status: HOAX Demonstrating how long exposures can produce "ghosts" in old photos.

Recent comments on this image

#10 Posted by mandamay321 on 11/13/2004

kinda like the horses head, dead head

#9 Posted by arcane on 12/10/2004

the woman on the street on the left has a ghostly fell about her......o~0

#8 Posted by ghost@borley on 12/21/2004

Camaras in those days wern't up 2 much but u never know??

#7 Posted by dr_kelz on 1/7/2005

so why would you leve a ladder in the street to wait for the ghost???????

#6 Posted by iseedeadppl on 1/18/2005

well if the fact that when someone moved they appeared as ghosts is true , if you look closely the figure isnt moving its standing .If it was moving up the ladder wouldnt it have a diffrent shape?

#5 Posted by tygurtar on 1/20/2005

its a ghost standing on the ladder that is just left there for no reason! omg and look at the ghost of the woman across the street! oh my, look at the horses head! the horses head is dead, yet the rest of it still lives! its a miracle! iseedeadppl, if an object moves fast enough then whatever image the camera might have picked up gets "covered" by the rest of the scene, which is much brighter than the object. Try taking a long exposure of a car on the highway from an overpass at night. the h...

#4 Posted by e.b.e. on 1/21/2005

I think the ladder looks strange because part of it looks like its in front of the ladder but the rest is behind it.

#3 Posted by lunamoon on 1/23/2005

How about the orb to the right of the cart?

#2 Posted by doubtingthomas on 1/30/2005

Orb? Oh, you mean speck. Anyways, as has been said, this is proof that just because it was around before Photoshop, doesn't mean it's real. Faked ghost photos were all the rage in the mid - late 1800's.

#1 Posted by nme_locus on 3/4/2005

So, there's a ghost lighting a street lamp.. I wonder how much he got paid per hour...hum

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