I was photographing the heavy frost in the garden this morning. When I uploaded this picture there were mysterious shapes that I didn't see when I took it!
These 'photographers' breath' photos are fairly common. They are usually night photos because they require the flash to work. However, some day photos use 'fill in' flash. The bright foreground suggests fill-in flash was used, maybe without the photographer even being aware of it.
Nothing to do with breath, it's due to mist forming on the lens when the camera is taken from the warm indoors to the outside cold, anyway, that's a proper ghost if ever I saw one.
Whatever it was I doubt condensation on the front element of the lens was the cause. The marks are too focused, relatively speaking, to suggest something very close given the hyperfocal point of the image.
It could conceivably be condensation on another element but you'd need a sequence of shots to see whether the ectoplasm/moisture advances on retreats like any sentient miasma might when exposed to a rapid temperature change.
It doesn't look like condensation on the lens. That looks like a faint, vague patchy haziness, hardly even noticeable. This looks like typical 'photographer's breath' which the flash has strongly illuminated. It looks slightly fuzzy because it is out of focus, being very close to the camera.
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