What is type of photography that is able to photograpgh "Chi" or "Life Force" energy.?

Question

I saw it in a Tai Chi book I used to have. It had twp comparisons:

A man's hand before and after doing Tai Chi. The energy field was broken up/fragmented around his entire hand before doing Tai Chi, but was consistently the same around his hand after a Tai Chi session.

The other was of a leaf; the first photo showed the energy field all the way around the edges of the leaf. The second photo showed the leaf cut in half, but even though the top was mising, "residual" traces of energy could still be seen.

All I need is the name; once I see it I'll know it. On the tip of my tongue for an hour now.

Thank you kindly.

Answer 1

What you appear to be talking about is called the Kirlian effect.



Although not actually fake, it has nothing whatsoever to do with life forces, or qi. Of course that hasn't stopped people from making unsubstantiated claims about it, and using it to con the gullible into believing it has something to do with life forces or qi.



It's merely an induced electrical effect, a coronal discharge, which is photographed. And the effect is visible, with or without a camera. The subject doesn't even have to be a living object - it works with inanimate objects too.



For example, here's a Kirlian image of some coins. So claims of it being due to "life forces" are clearly absurd.

Answer 2

I saw some video of a Chi Gong master using thermal imaging and infra red cameras. It showed the palms of his hands to be something like 175 degrees. He was lighting insense with the chi from his hands. You might want to look into something like this. Any knid of imaging that goes beyond visual light waves could, should and would have to be investigated.

I'm not going to get into the argument about how real it is or not but this would involve deeper science than just looking at pictures.

Answer 3

It's called Kirlian photography but as BriaR says it's all fakery.

Answer 4

No photography can capture such subject. Any image showing it is a fake generated by post edit.