joe-g said:
russ,, i can assure you this is not dust...
I can assure you it is. I'd hazard to say that
most pictures taken with a flash have dust spots in them if you look hard enough to find them (naturally, those taken on flat, black backgrounds, like yours, are easier to find). My first attached pic is my favorite such picture, showing - as I mentioned before - what you get at the beach. Whether it is actually suspended water droplets or salt I'm not sure, but either way, it is clearly kicked-up by the surf...either that or ghosts like the beach.
...look at the colour for a start,
I thought all ghosts were white? Seriusly, what does color have to do with anything?
...this pic was not taken by accident...
What does that mean? Clearly, you didn't see this with your eyes before taking the picture - you took the picture (several?), then went searching for patterns that vaguely resemble faces. And the amount of processing required to find this one speaks volumes for how well-developed your pattern recognition engine is...to the point of running amok!
...one of my bedrooms has unusual activity, noises, stuff being droped and moved, i put a cam in there, and cought a manefestation of what i assume is a spirit...
Assume? How can you assume that? Why don't you assume that black wall borders are noisy? The corellation here is so obviously, yet poorly coincidental you could conclude anything with the starting assumption that you have ghosts. Do ghosts like black paint? Or maybe black paint causes structural problems in houses, resulting in noises? If these suggestions sound silly, they are meant to: you are really reaching for a corellation between events/things that are so obviously coincidental.
...and yes my lens was cleaned...
No it wasn't: it is essentially impossible to completely clean a lens (more on that later), but that's besides the point: this dust spot wasn't on the lens, it was in front of the lens, where it was illuminated by the flash. If it were on the lens, it would be dark, not light.
Like Dave, I have some unique expertise on the subject: I'm an astrophotographer and fight a constant war against dust. The second attached pic, I took last night. The dust spots are doughnuts because of the type of telescope I have. There are actually calculations you can do (even software, I think) to help figure out where a spec of dust or other flaw is is based on its size. These, I know where they are: I have a filter just next to the CCD chip (which is otherwise naked) that doesn't seem to want to come clean. Perhaps they are imperfections in the glass.
There are many different types of visual artifacts that people call "orbs", some already mentioned, some not. They include (but aren't necessarily limited to):
1. Dust or other suspended particles in the air illuminated by the flash (the first attached pic).
2. Dust or other particles on the lens/filters/other glass surfaces that casts a shadow on the chip (second attached pic).
3. Internal reflections from bright objects (third attached pic).
4. Diffraction (third attached pic...and all the others).
The third attached pic is a crop of one of my best astrophotos, showing #3 and 4. The bright star is so bright, the camera captures reflections off the internal surfaces of the many lenses in the light path. Since different filters are used for different colors and the focal lengths of different frequencies of light are different, there are different reflections for different colors...hence, the blue and green.
The third pic also includes good examples of diffraction. The first example is the spikes on the star. These are an artistic flair I added by strapping some thin wires across the front of the telescope. Light from the stars diffracts around the wires, causing the spikes. Also evident in the internal reflections are diffraction rings - concentric circles, mostly on the outer edges of the internal reflection spots. Virtually all examples of the first three (including yours, which is #1) include diffraction rings.
And the fourth picture is proof that I am, in fact, a ghost (much to the dismay of my parents). I can assure you I didn't alter this photo and I used an automatic mode on the camera: no special modes or trickery involved. So it must be real, right? I must be a ghost, right? Again, if this sounds silly it is only because it is supposed to: Yeah, it's "real" but only insofar as I'm pretending I don't understand what happened. Can you tell me what happened?
...i only did this after i could not explain the noises, i am just an ordinary working guy looking for explanations, and i get plenty of that from the skeptics, but it still does not stop the noises and movement in the room, also explain how i can tak to the spirit, and it knocks every time to my questions, frighting stuff, when the knocks are right next to you, explain that one away...
give me more credit than that lol, so you think that orb is dust, i was there, that is no dust, that border is 8inch high lol the pics i took are to highly detailed for dust, unless the flash creates the orbs, but wait for it, it also sends face images into them lol, i have tried to debunk them best as i could,
