"Ghost" pics

Ember

Ember

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Hahaha. Looking through the pictures- black sky, black sky, little piece of what may have been a firework, black sky, bright yellow streak....
Yep I like my film, but I shudder to think of how much money I wasted on developing terrible shots.
 
everestnut

everestnut

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Took me a little while to find it. Definitely not the best, but we were laughing too much while running back and forth. I do want to try again.
 
ddbowdoin

ddbowdoin

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PhotoDave219 said:
Actually, i found fireworks on film much easier. bulb. Shutter release. Tripod. 400 ASA Kodak gold.
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The problem I have is that my medium format cameras don't have a bulb feature, they have the time setting. So you have to manually switch the leaf shutter to another shutter speed to close the lens. It's a pain in the rear or you need a 90 dollar Mamiya double cable release
 
ddbowdoin

ddbowdoin

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PhotoDave219 said:
I'm planning a film project for spring training. Know a source where I can get reasonably priced 620 film?
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nope... 620 is a pain in the a$$. It's just 120 respooled onto a slightly different size roll.

You could do it yourself but I've never bothered. 620 is a kodak creation so it's a lot of brownies and hawkeyes and I've never found the quality to be impressive, to me they are somewhere in-between a Holga and a "real" camera.
 
PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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ddbowdoin said:
nope... 620 is a pain in the a$$. It's just 120 respooled onto a slightly different size roll.

You could do it yourself but I've never bothered. 620 is a kodak creation so it's a lot of brownies and hawkeyes and I've never found the quality to be impressive, to me they are somewhere in-between a Holga and a "real" camera.
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Well, the camera Im using is rather old. Belonged to my grandfather. Still trying to get it to work right.
 
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thomas998

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Ember said:
This! If anyone has any tips on how to make this possible, please let me know! Thanks Fractal!
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You can also get what I consider a better effect if you do a double exposure. Not sure if you camera allows that but I have one that lets you do a double exposure and it works very well for creating ghosts.... if you do that method there are two way to do it and get decent results. 1) using a tripod you set up for you scene that you want. take an under exposed shot of the the scene with or without your ghost then, either have the ghost leave or get in the shot and shoot it again while everyone else is staying still. 2) photograph you ghost somewhere with a black background and then photograph the scene you want them in (this way is harder because you need to try and remember where the ghost is in your first shot).... I prefer this method from the long exposures because the long exposure often get blurry ghosts, unless that is your goal.
 
fractal

fractal

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thomas998 said:
You can also get what I consider a better effect if you do a double exposure. Not sure if you camera allows that but I have one that lets you do a double exposure and it works very well for creating ghosts.... if you do that method there are two way to do it and get decent results. 1) using a tripod you set up for you scene that you want. take an under exposed shot of the the scene with or without your ghost then, either have the ghost leave or get in the shot and shoot it again while everyone else is staying still. 2) photograph you ghost somewhere with a black background and then photograph the scene you want them in (this way is harder because you need to try and remember where the ghost is in your first shot).... I prefer this method from the long exposures because the long exposure often get blurry ghosts, unless that is your goal.
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any pics to share?
 
Ember

Ember

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thomas998 said:
You can also get what I consider a better effect if you do a double exposure. Not sure if you camera allows that but I have one that lets you do a double exposure and it works very well for creating ghosts.... if you do that method there are two way to do it and get decent results. 1) using a tripod you set up for you scene that you want. take an under exposed shot of the the scene with or without your ghost then, either have the ghost leave or get in the shot and shoot it again while everyone else is staying still. 2) photograph you ghost somewhere with a black background and then photograph the scene you want them in (this way is harder because you need to try and remember where the ghost is in your first shot).... I prefer this method from the long exposures because the long exposure often get blurry ghosts, unless that is your goal.
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I have a Canon so no double exposure :( But I appreciate the advice and hopefully someone else on the board can give it a try!
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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Ember said:
This! If anyone has any tips on how to make this possible, please let me know! Thanks Fractal!
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Use the Bulb setting on the camera to manually hold the shutter open, Use a separate electronic flash set to AUTO mode to expose background with one manual flash, Now to add the 'ghosts' set flash to lowest manual power - position your 'ghosts' and fire flash. Now close shutter

Rinse Lather and Repeat till you get desired effect.

The key here is proper exposure of background while underexposing your 'ghosts' giving them that transparent look
 
ddbowdoin

ddbowdoin

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PhotoDave219 said:
You can't find reasonably priced 620 spools
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from time to time they pop up on ebay but the best way is to hound antique shops... at least thats the best method here in new england. I'm always coming across old kodaks in these shops, like 4 dollar cameras and there's your spool.
 
ddbowdoin

ddbowdoin

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ford91exploder said:
You can get it but it will NOT be reasonably priced, I would get some 620 spools on ebay and respool 120 film onto them. What is this an old Rolleicord or something equivalent
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Rolleis take 120 film

620 is a pure kodak invention, well... to make sure people bought Kodak 620 back in the day.
 

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