Are Orbs Just a Camera Phenomenon?
Here’s an excerpt from a blog with many lovely photographs containing orbs. The author of the blog describes how she created orbs that turned up in her photographs. She used a compact camera with a flash plus atmospheric pollutants such as dust, rain, or pollen. The inference is that orbs photos result from atmospheric pollutants.
To get orbs it helps to use a compact camera with its flash on.
Then go into a dusty atmosphere, or rain, or underwater, or a swarm of midges, or pollen – if you can’t find them you can make your own:
Caro’s Lines: How to Photograph Orbs
Comments on her blog refer to orbs pictures taken in places such as cemeteries where there are supposed to be ghosts. The author of the comment does not refute orbs as indications of the dearly departed. However, she does disagree with orbs photographs being used as evidence of ghosts since orbs can be created in photographs by atmospheric means.
I mention this blog because I have a deeply inquiring mind and am curious. I like to get to the bottom of things. I find it interesting that orbs photos can be purposefully created.
Does this mean that all orbs in photographs are created by compact digital cameras with flashes and atmospheric pollutants?
I think not. Orbs in photographs would be mere atmospheric phenomena if they only turned up in photographs and only with compact digital cameras with flash.
On the contrary, many people wrote to me who can see orbs with their naked eyes . . . just sitting in their living rooms or hanging out with family and friends. Others have told me that orbs turned up in in photographs taken with large format professional film cameras.Therefore, many orbs photos have to be more than a mere atmospheric phenomenon.
What do you think?
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
