EMF meter says warning.
Tip: Be careful who you Ghost Hunt with. Set your rules before you go. When you have one person who cannot understand that constantly texting in your presence is rude, aggravating and obnoxious, leave them home. The Ghost DO NOT like this! -The Drama Writers.
The image looks so lovely during the daylight hours. Don’t let it fool you. When the bewitching hour sets in, things get very, very scary deep in the wilderness at one of the darkest locations on the east coast. Do not, I repeat, do not go here alone! You will be scared out of your mind if you do! Demons lurk at every corner, waiting to send you disastrous, volatile energy to blast you into the depths of hell! Ok, ready to go now?
Ghost hunting can be fun and exciting, no matter where you go. We highly recommend your first step be: Getting permission to ghost hunt on the property you choose before you plan anything. Ghost hunting ending in a free ride in a police car can be exciting, but you may not like the court process that will follow. We are all about excitement and adrenaline but not that kind. Permission should be a priority when you pick an interior vs. exterior, such as a graveyard. Okay, enough lecture now for the fun stuff.
Old buildings with a unique history are always a fun place to start. This particular castle had a woman who owned it and spent her final years institutionalized. She was probably driven to insanity because this place is so scary it will make your mind wander to unearthly places. Even if you don’t see her or sense her while you are here, it can be fun to let your imagination run away while trying to document your orbs, vortexes, and ghosts. We not only felt her, but we recorded her.
Our Magazine owner has been sensitive and a psychic from when she can remember. Although her most definite unique sense is having premonitions sent in the form of dreams, sensing entities and energies is also second nature to her. While we were standing in the castle’s courtyard doing still photography, one of our volunteers got a little spooked for a minute. Our magazine owner felt a presence directly next to them for several minutes before this happened. We had been here one other time doing just still photography, and another assistant started to scream that there was something behind her. It was a terrifying moment that we had to get a grasp on quickly. If we let it get out of control, we would have a $6,000.00 camera left behind as we would be running for our lives.
The two big scares happened in the exact location the first and the second time with two different people. Eerily they both seemed to get scared almost in the same way suddenly. Both times our magazine owner knew an entity was standing there before the others noticed. She described him as about 6’2″, tall, thin wearing a long straight black robe. He was intrigued and looked at the back of the camera at the LCD screen. We think this was the former owner of the castle. –Ghost Hunting N.Y.
Check out these two images taken seconds apart while Ghost Hunting in New York at the castle. Do you see anything eerily strange going on here? We did not notice this until we got home and edited our still images. This shot is a 20-second exposure and was lit up with a flashlight. We felt many presences all around us this night, but we did not specifically feel this one in the window; we felt her in other places. Hint: Be sure to check out the windows.
Ghost hunting is an art. If you want to learn more, you can come on one of our ghost hunting weekends or even take a ghost hunting class by Extra Eyes Photo Tours.
DSLR Camera Lens: Ghost Hunting is a wide-angle lens event, but you ideally need a lens with an open aperture of 2.8 or below. The higher-end cameras will allow you to go to a very high ISO with less noise, which is ideal. If you don’t have a great camera, any camera will do. After all, we are not going for super high-quality images here. We are going for super high amounts of paranormal activity that we can document. As long as we get our evidence, it doesn’t always have to look beautiful. You can see some of our lower-end camera images above are filled with grain, but we got what we were after.
Gear: while doing your digital photography, ghost hunting, bring your tripod, infrared illuminating light, and your shutter release. Bring your driver’s license just in case the police question you. Be prepared for that. Be sure there aren’t any NO TRESPASSING signs where you are, and you should be okay but be very careful. We very rarely ever trespass. Sometimes, getting permission is not as hard as one might think, but then again, we are a group of hot blondes. 🙂 It does make it much more manageable. 🙂
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Hire Paranormal Pam to bring on the apparitions and lead your ghost hunt or join her on a Ghost Hunting Photography Tour.
Anytime is fine, but traditionally the best results have been documented after 9 p.m. but closer to midnight is best.
A DSLR Can be used for Ghost Hunting Photography but cannot see in the dark ultimately. You can use a red light to illuminate the area or bring a flashlight for focusing, and you can quickly obtain apparitions if you can stand the insidious invasion of the paranormal. Shine your light, focus your camera, set it to manual focus without touching the lens, and take your shot. Do this each time you recompose.
Full Spectrum Digital Camera: – Takes quality Full Spectrum photos and video. They have been professionally modified to accept deeper Ultraviolet (UV) and Infrared (IR) light to allow pictures deep into the usually unseen light spectrum. It features an easy-to-use interface with plenty of features to make your job easier and capture evidence more efficiently.
As with all cameras, this is best used with the aid of an external light source such as a UV light, IR light, or Full Spectrum (white) light.
Infrared (IR) Digital Camera: – Takes quality IR photos and video with the convenience and ease of a compact digital camera
For basic DSLR Photography, our goal is capturing activity, not super high quality, so that we will do a few things a little out of the ordinary. Set your ISO as high as you can for very dark locations. You cannot shoot a DSLR in total darkness. You will need some light sources such as a flashlight, church lights, or a full moon. Use your tripod and set your camera to manual mode. Set your ISO very high, depending on how much light you have. You can go much higher on your higher-end cameras, but the higher you go, the more grain you will get. Again, it’s not always about avoiding grain or digital noise here. Set your aperture to the lowest f-number; it will go to such as (ex. 2.8), then scroll your shutter speed until the meter reads center zero. Now you are set. It would be best if you were about several seconds on your shutter speed. If you do not have enough light, you can light things up with a flashlight.
Measure fluctuations in electromagnet fields (or EM fields). These fields directly result from electrical appliances in a home, cell phones, power lines outside, and even fluctuations in solar activity and weather. Beyond that, a primary theory in the paranormal world is that entities can manipulate these fields in their attempt to manifest themselves or interact with our world. When your meter goes off, do a long exposure on your tripod.
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