What causes the “ghosting” effect in photography

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I’ve seen this a lot in action shots but I’ve never gotten a good explanation

[example photo](https://twitter.com/heat1995viewer/status/1621152303729475585?s=46&t=Ask-Z_AY7uucFNoW6Vc7FA)

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Two things:

1. You take a picture of something that does not move. Then you take a picture of that same thing from exactly the same position with another object in the picture. You superimpose the two images, and the object that is in one picture only will look transparent against the object that is there in both photos.
2. This used a similar technique but is also Photoshopped. You can tell because some parts of the skateboarder are transparent and some are not. If this was a simple superimposed image, all parts of the skateboarder would be equally transparent.

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