For as long as I can remember, photographers on the Sci-Fi Channel have been trying to capture images of ghosts with a camera. Well now they’re making about movie about spirit photographs.
20th Century Fox is releasing a new horror movie on March 21 that is sure to be the greatest film epic of all time. “Shutter” will be rated at PG-13, which means that most teenagers can go see the movie, which means that this movie was purposely marketed towards the teen crowd, which means Freddy Prince Jr. and that kid from Disney’s “Even Stevens” is probably going to be in it. Check out the plot…
“A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.”
I mean how many times has that happened? Ghosts manifest themselves during a band photoshoot, or some skeleton shows up in the family picture (oh wait, that’s just grandma)… I think this is a movie we can really relate too.
Actually that was a lie, I have no idea what Spirit Photography is. Luckily, the movie website has an explanation:
“Shinrei Shashin is a phrase used to describe photos where ghosts or spirits decide to show all or part of themselves when a photo is taken. Ghosts/spirits show up for many reasons including hate for the person having their photo taken, expressions of distress, hate, jealousy etc etc. Spirits make their presence known through orbs, mist, apparitions, and ectoplasm.
The term orb is the popular name given to typically circular anomalies appearing in photographs. In photography and video, orbs appear to be balls, diamonds, or smears of light with an apparent size in the image ranging from a golfball to a basketball depending on the distance of the dust particle to the lens. Orbs sometimes appear to be in motion, leaving a trail behind them. There are two main trains of thought regarding the cause of orbs in photographs. The first school sees it as a fairly clear-cut case of flash or ambient light reflection off of dust, particles, insects, or moisture droplets in the air in front of the camera distorted by the digital cameras CCD lens being unable to focus, i.e. they are naturalistic. The opposing school maintains that orbs are paranormal in nature and spirits, i.e. non-naturalistic and ghost like.
Ectoplasm (from the Greek ektos, “outside”, + plasma, “something formed or molded”) is a term coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy supposedly “exteriorized” by physical mediums. Although the term is widespread in popular culture, the physical existence of ectoplasm is not accepted by mainstream science. Other researchers have duplicated, with non-supernatural materials, the photographic effects sometimes said to prove the existence of ectoplasm.”
..From Spirit Photographs.com
I always thought Ectoplasm was Slimer’s poop from Ghostbusters. Hmmmm… but apparently it’s this stuff…
That’s either somebody who set their house on fire or one very pissed off ghost. While I recommend for most photographers to stick to shooting living people, if you liked “The Grudge” and “The Ring” this movie is from the same producers.
What does that mean? Probably a little ghost girl will be involved in the flick.
