Ghost Lusters [Back Story]

In shooting the portrait of this year\´s IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, B. Jayant Baliga, photographer D.L. Anderson applied a technique that dates to the 19th century, when "spirit photographers" produced images of people alongside ghostly replicas of their deceased loved ones. Those renderings were fabricated by some less-than-scrupulous photographers who realized the effect was easy to produce using double exposure??something apparently lost on the gullible folks who viewed and purchased the pictures. (The ghost in Anderson\´s double-exposure self-portrait above is nothing more than a compact fluorescent bulb.)