Post your best spooky photos!

With halloween around the corner, I thought it would be great to try some different photography techniques to create some haunting shots!! My daughter & I are hoping to get a chance this Friday to create our own!

I was reading this article this morning for some great tips and techniques that I think others will find helpful also ...

http://blog.sigmaphoto.com/2012/cool.../?link=oct_t_3

Lets have some fun and come up with our own spooky photos! Posting how you created the shot would be very beneficial! I'm looking forward to seeing what others can come up with!

Here's a quick shot I did today to start. Basically, all I did was take a photograph of a graveyard and then took another photograph of my daughter in our backyard. I used the selective tool in photoshop to copy and past her into the graveyard and then lowered the opacity on her. I used NIK Silver EFEX faded photograph custom setting and a split tone. I'm working on a few others but this isn't too bad for starters.

I hope others will post some shots! It's spooky in here all by my lonesome!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8045/8...e79a426e_c.jpg
A Haunting Visit by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

And to help kick it off...
What else do you do when your ruler tells you that there cemetery is full on 1000 years worth of bones?
Create a tourist-trap of a temple made out of those bones, of course.
(those wacky Czechs...)

http://croubie.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-bG6SbDk-L.jpg

Here is one I made up last year.

http://www.pbase.com/roffee/image/13...1/original.jpg

Larry

Awesome shots! I know I have some skulls around here somewhere ...you have given me some ideas Dr.!
I like the blue and the fog in your shot, Larry ...very nice effect!!

Here's another I just finished. Done the same way as my first one except this time my daughter was at our kitchen table and I just worked her in around the gate.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8049/8...e5c929bf_c.jpg
Enter if you dare! by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

I stopped to photograph this old house today and while I was there a lady pulled over and told me the house was originally built on another site about 1/2 mile away but had to be moved when the Green River Reservoir was flooded around 1960. The house, according to her, was over 100 years old. I tried to make as "spooky" as possible. I considered using my timer and tripod so I could get a ghostly image of myself in the window but the floors looked unsafe.

http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....08142030-5.jpg

This guy is scary...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8464/8...07b8e864_z.jpg
Halloween 2012: Merlin the Young by budrowilson, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Joel Eade

I stopped to photograph this old house today and while I was there a lady pulled over and told me the house was originally built on another site about 1/2 mile away but had to be moved when the Green River Reservoir was flooded around 1960. The house, according to her, was over 100 years old. I tried to make as "spooky" as possible. I considered using my timer and tripod so I could get a ghostly image of myself in the window but the floors looked unsafe.

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Now that is one scary house! I wouldn't go in there if my life depended on it ...who knows what is lurking around in there! Nice shot and processing, Joel!

Now this one isn't for the faint hearted, so beware.
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ZW Fangs alot by Steve's Life, on Flickr[/img]

Changed my mind, there are some pretty gruesome ones on Flickr.
Thanks for looking.

I'd watch out for this one, Steve!

Shot at the Zombie Walk last weekend, this one with the Sony DSC-RX100.
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Zombie_1 by Steve's Life, on Flickr[/img]

Thanks for viewing.

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Halloween Fun by budrowilson, on Flickr

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Halloween Fun by budrowilson, on Flickr

@Steve - I think the costumes on this zombie walk are even creepier than last years unless you are just getting braver taking shots of the most gruesome! Nice captures!

@Sean - The lighting is superb on these to give that chilling feeling ...I can just feel Jason's presence lurking!

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Originally Posted by ddt0725

@Steve - I think the costumes on this zombie walk are even creepier than last years unless you are just getting braver taking shots of the most gruesome! Nice captures!

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Thank you Denise, as a passionate photographer, it is great to find people that love getting their photo taken. Most family members duck, or pull faces when I grab my camera and that is why I love shooting events like the zombie walk, hotrod shows, comic conventions and so on. You get unpaid models that want to get their photo taken. It is perfect for practice and honing different skills.
I learn a little bit each time I shoot one of these events. It is a bonus that the images create a little interest.
Steve

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Originally Posted by ddt0725

@Steve - I think the costumes on this zombie walk are even creepier than last years unless you are just getting braver taking shots of the most gruesome! Nice captures!

@Sean - The lighting is superb on these to give that chilling feeling ...I can just feel Jason's presence lurking!

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+1....

Sean - Once again, you are the master at using light to make the photo. Brilliant..!

Steve - I always enjoy your zombie shots. I happened to come across the results of last year's Nat Geo photo contest, and strangely enough, a zombie family won an honourable mention for best people shot: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2011/entries/gallery/people/#/1
There's no accounting for taste though --- I think yours are a lot better.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Huyer

Sean - Once again, you are the master at using light to make the photo. Brilliant..!

Steve - I always enjoy your zombie shots. I happened to come across the results of last year's Nat Geo photo contest, and strangely enough, a zombie family won an honourable mention for best people shot: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2011/entries/gallery/people/#/1
There's no accounting for taste though --- I think yours are a lot better.

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Thank you Jonathan, my shots do tend to be a little more gritty than that pretty shot.

Happy Halloween Everyone!
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Happy Halloween by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8...51137471_z.jpg
Someone's watching you! by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8...e676fd80_z.jpg
In the darkness by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

Eeeekkk!!
That second one is what I see some Sunday mornings in the mirror. :-))