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Not one person at the party knew who it was. No one was even hanging out outside at all.
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The situation wasn't that scary because they were clearly just some idiot teenagers messing around but the picture is pretty creepy.
Setting accidentally captured disturbing details aside for a moment, if you want to intentionally take scary photos, there are a few main things you can do. For one, you should focus on dark settings and avoid sunlight in your pictures. But that presents technical challenges. After all, you need (some) light for photography.
“Select a slower shutter speed to let as much light as possible fall onto the sensor, and keep the camera steady on a tripod, activating the shutter via a remote release or by using the self-timer. The alternative is to increase the ISO or set a wide aperture (e.g. f/2.8) so you can shoot with less available light without having to lengthen the shutter speed,” the Nikon School suggests.
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I had dumped a pile of laundry onto my desk chair and in the reflection of my mirror, it looked like a person sitting in my chair watching me. The round hump at the bottom is just the back of the chair and the head was crumpled clothing.
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Short story: took a pic of a friend at my place. Next day when I came home from work, the place was cleaned out with no sign of forced entry. It was a mystery.
Weeks later, I looked at the pic and saw the random foot behind my friend in my little storage room. The room was dark at the time, but I took the pic with flash so it immediately jumped out at me. He must have spent the night there, waited for me to leave and finally struck. Neither me or my friend noticed anything as we hung out that evening, nor did I notice anything during the night as I slept.
Here's the cropped pic.
What’s more, you want to avoid using a direct flash because it’s too bright, ruining the atmosphere you’re going for. Instead, either soften the flash with a diffused cover or go for colored lighting gel.
Another small way to create a mysterious, creepy atmosphere is to shine a (flash)light underneath your subject’s face. Or take photos of people’s silhouettes against the backdrop of a darkening sky.
The Nikon School adds that you can also convert your photos to black-and-white for added creepy atmosphere.
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One day I decided to walk along the Han River and walked enough miles to go under 3 or 4 bridges, but at one particular bridge, I found these shoes abandoned by a bench.
Interesting. There was no one around since it was especially stormy that day and people don’t generally hang out by the river when it’s so rainy. No question the shoes were left behind, but why?
I didn’t think too much about it and thought it was a nice splash of color against the gloomy weather. I took this picture and kept walking, never disturbing the shoes and leaving them in case their owner would come back for them.
Later that night, I got back home and showed my dad the pictures I had taken from that day. I told him about coming across some mysterious shoes, and showed him the picture — but he suddenly started to express surprise and concern. I asked him what the matter was; apparently, there’s this pattern in leaving shoes behind before [ending your life]. The symbol of abandoned shoes is more prevalent and/or originated in Japan, but still has a meaning in Korea.
Did I come across someone’s last mark on the world before they took their own life?
I look to the background of the photo and can only imagine someone leaving the shoes so neatly by the bench and walking into the river.
The shoes were relatively small, too — were they young? was it a girl? guy? most likely a student? How often does this happen? What drove them to this point? Where is their family? Did they have close friends? How long were the shoes there? Was I hours away from seeing the owner? or minutes?
A part of me doesn’t want to believe that someone ended their own life, and that someone just left some shoes behind; but another part of me recognizes how much pressure there is in Korea’s society and its higher rates of [this].
It’s scary to look back on the photo and not see a curious, lonely pair of shoes by a bench anymore, but instead the last moments of someone’s life.
Of course, a reminder that help and resources are always ready. I’ve used it myself. Always get the help and care you deserve.
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And if you want to create the illusion that there’s a ghostly figure moving around in your image, you need to use a long exposure.
“Mount the camera on a tripod to prevent shake, then compose your image with your 'ghost' in position. About halfway through the exposure get them to quickly move out of the shot, and you'll end up with a transparent spectre in the final image; alternatively, get your 'ghost' to move very slowly across the frame to create a wraithlike blur.”
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Parenting triplets is hard enough- why make a hassle out of a birthday by making three cakes?
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The room as it normally is and What...?
#12
The woman in the picture was not there when he took it nor does he know who she is.
Or you can add the spooky figure in using Photoshop or whatever your favorite go-to photo-editing software is. Take two photos, one with the ghostly figure, one without. Then, in the software, copy the ‘ghost’ from one image and place it in a separate ‘layer’ in the other photo. Move it, change its size and transparency, and edit it in different ways until you get the result you want.
Of course, where you take your pictures also matters. Naturally, if you’re going for a scarier atmosphere, think about places like the woods, graveyards, churches, abandoned buildings, etc.
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Ewwwwwww. Mom said it is an egg. If you guys know what it is, please let me know in the comment section.
Edit:- Thank you User-9930340355318587681 for the information.
It is Nezara viridula - Wikipedia commonly known as Green stink bugs or Green shield bugs lays eggs in that hexagonal fashion.
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I'll keep this short. I moved into a really creepy large farmhouse a half mile away from my closest neighbor in Western NY for a summer internship. I had my ex girlfriend help me move in and I was taking "first move in" photographs on the first day.
Staying there over the entire summer has been nothing but creepiness. Mind you I did not believe I'm ghosts or whatnot but I could always feel like there were eyes looking at me. I could always feel like there was some presence in the apartment. I'd hear doorknob rattle in the middle of the night. I'd refuse to pull the cover over me. Etc.
Anyway 3 weeks before I was wrapping up my internship I looked through my album one night missing my girlfriend. There was a face looking at us in the window in the background and I just noticed it. No one was in the house that time.
I did not sleep well for those remaining 3 weeks.
I'll find and post the pic here!
EDIT: Found my old laptop but I need to find a charger for it. Might take a bit but I promise to reply to every single replies below when I post it. No bamboozle
I apologize for the blurriness, pulled this pic out of FB messenger app. If you're skeptical like all of my friends, invert the colors with the close up photograph and you can tell the shade of the face is different than the background.
What is the scariest, creepiest, most unsettling thing that you’ve ever captured on camera, Pandas? Was this intentional or accidental? What’s the rational explanation behind the disturbing details you found in your pics?
If you’re up for it, you can tell us all about it in the comments section at the bottom of your post. You can also share your creepiest pics there.
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There I was straggling behind the group listening to the guide going on about how the place was well known to be haunted, mass graves of prisoners and all those kind of horror stories, while I thought to myself ‘yeah yeah whatever kid’. There was no way I was letting the shadowy hallways and eerily empty cells get to me!
I put my camera to the small window of one of these cells to get a somewhat decent shot of it, only to my dismay to see this real shocker of an image emerge… a new appreciation for photography and a real sense of get the feck outta there were my first two reactions! This picture actually freaked the guide out and he got us out of there pretty quick, and I wouldn’t blame him.
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When the photo was developed, The television to the right of me featured a face that looked like some kind of weird Dracula/demon face. IIRC it was oddly in black and white (we had a colour tv, obviously, it was 2003.
This really wouldn’t be that strange, except the television was off when we took the pic. We both remember that distinctly.
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