Digital Kirlian Photography
Shoot “auras” without film.
Kirlian photography records a high-voltage corona discharge around objects. Some people call this discharge an “aura” and attribute metaphysical and paranormal factors to its varying parameters. Originally, Kirlian photography was a contact print process that used film. This article illustrates another method of shooting Kirlian photographs, using a digital camera.
The technique can be traced back to the late 1700s, when Georg Christoph Lichtenberg first created “electro-photographs” in dust using static electricity and sparks. Nikola Tesla photographed corona discharges using his famous Tesla coil in the 1880s and in the early 1900s. Others followed, and in 1939, the Russian ...
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