How were pictures of ectoplasm made?

I want to try making these with my camera at home, but i just can’t figure out how they did it! I can make pics of ghosts using light and words using light, but im stuck on creating the ectoplasm they used to create in like the 1900s during seances and stuff.

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  1. Mere Mortal
    May 17th, 2010 - 6:22 pm

    They did it in the darkroom with paddles, burning/dodging, sandwiched negatives and many other tricks.

    Today you could do it rather well with photoshop using layers, reduced opacity paintbrushes and other techniques.

    When you do make a fine image please post it in this group:

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/959339@N25/

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  2. Verity
    May 17th, 2010 - 6:26 pm

    There is a marvelous book, based on an equally marvelous exhibit
    at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years back. It’s called
    “The Perfect Medium; Photography and the Occult”. It contains
    a huge array of so-called spirit photographs. If I remember correctly,
    there is a passage about the content of the “ectoplasm”.

    You might try a library to find it.

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  3. XfuneralXflowersX
    May 17th, 2010 - 6:28 pm

    Swallow a yard of cheese-cloth, then regurgitate it and have someone take a picture. That’s how they did it in the good ol’ days.

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