Sunday, October 01, 2006

You want orbs?

I'll give you orbs...



Have a look at this. It's a photo of a stainless-steel wall-mounted bottle opener, taken with a digital camera. Note the perfectly complete orb. No fuzzy edges. Solid and complete.

Now, how did I do that?

I'll give you a clue. I didn't use any kind of flashgun. Nor did I enhance or adjust the picture in any way. This is straight from the camera.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And look! There's a man standing right in the middle of the gold orb. I wonder who that could be? I know nothing about orbs. Are they supposed to be fuzzy round the edges?

Romulus Crowe said...

This is a lens-flare orb, the 'clean' kind. Dust-orbs are more fuzzy and sometimes irregular, depending on the shape of the dust.

There are many real forms of ghost light, but they are all visible to the eye. Digital cameras are a boon because you can take as many photos as you like. There's no 'developing' costs and no waiting for the results. Unfortunately they have also produced the whole 'orb' phenomenon because they see outside the visible range of the eye.

The orb story does nothing to advance the cause of those who want to find proof of life after death. They are too easy to disprove, and have been disproved repeatedly. They are a distraction.

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