Ghostly Figures

       In the spirit of Halloween coming up, i thought it would be appropriate to discuss long exposed pictures but with a moving object to give it a "ghostly" figure. The way theses shot are taken are over longer periods of time, compared to you simple quick shot photo. These pictures are exposed over multiple seconds on a stand (so the camera doesn't move) and then they have an element in the picture that is not there for the full exposure. For example the first photo was a picture of a ghostly girl hugging or sister, as it seems. The picture was taken over a multiple second duration, while the little girl ran up and hugged her sister and then ran away during the exposure to give her that ghostly figure. Same with the person putting their hand around the cup and taking them away (in the second photo) and the woman slowly walking down the stairs during the exposure to give the illusion that there are multiple of herself and at the same time giving her that ghostly figure. The last photo was a picture i took on a very dark night, where i set up my camera, on a stand, and i had the picture exposure for at least 15 seconds. I took the picture, and as the shutter was opened a sprinted over to the tree and stood next to it for only about half the time, but it was long enough to keep everything else in detail and show an essence of my body as a ghostly figure.