Light is one of the biggest influences on how your camera behaves. In everyday photography you'd normally adjust for it without thinking, but during a paranormal investigation you're often working in unusual conditions: near-dark rooms, narrow beams from a flashlight, reflective old interiors, and environments where dust, moisture and shadows behave unpredictably. Understanding how light interacts with a camera will help you avoid misinterpreting normal effects as paranormal and give you the best chance of capturing something genuinely unusual if it does occur.If you're shooting still photographs in a dimly lit or completely dark space, try to keep the camera as steady as possible. A tripod removes most of the movement that produces long-exposure blur, but even bracing your elbows or leaning against a doorway can help. For video, low light often forces the camera to boost its signal, which can create static-like speckles across the picture. This is a...