Assignment: Scary or Spooky Oct. 14 - 28

[Evening]

This assignment should be renamed arachnophia assignment - so many spiders! It would be nice if each post could just post a link to a spider photo and not show the actual photo but a warning 'this contains 8 legs' so you don't have to look!

Without seeing all the entries yet to be made - the winner has to be the dentist opened gummy mouth. Don't think there could be much scarier. Should be on national flossing campaign posters! YUK!!

[mjleynes]

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[DChadwick]

This is my husband, dressed up for Halloween. We had the fog machine going and he was walking through the fog. some backlighting caused the brightness in some areas.

Canon D40 Rebel XTI
flash not used
focal length 21.0
exposire 1/100
apeture f 6.3
exposure 1600
used picasa to render black and white
used photoshop 7.0 to spread fog around some more

[Fear_Through_The_Eyes]

Many years ago a mentally distorted man drowned his young step daughter under this bridge.

Ever since…



Canon 500D
f/4.5
Exposure time 10 sec
ISO 400
Exp bias 0 step
Focal length 17mm

[Art Images]

Eyes On You!!

This aussie lady (Melbourne Trapdoor Spider) was not pleasant to photograph..scared me a few times through my zoom..she felt way to close for my comfort..she's definately something I would prefer kept at a distance!!



Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash

File Size: 6.4 MB
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 2366
Image Height: 2483
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 350 dpi
Y-Resolution: 350 dpi
Software: Digital Photo Professional
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:10:18 16:13:24
Artist: Photographer: Rhonda
YCbCr Positioning: Centered

[Art Images]

Originally Posted by Vikkki

Agreed... This being a photography competition, more emphasis should be given to obtaining the "scary / spooky" effect while clicking the photograph.. Quite a few photographs on this thread seem to have created the effect with textures and working with postprocessing filters, which really retracts from the spirit of the assignment.

I also agree...whilst post production and using programs is effective and clever I thought the idea was to improve our photography skills not our artistic talents..makes our genuine photos pale in comparison..different categories would be fairer on all.

[mnhqmy]

Date taken: 10/22/09
Camera: Nikon D5000
F-stop: f/4
Exposure: 1/10 sec.
ISO: 640
Focal length: 24mm
Flash: No Flash

[Dunja0712]

Date Taken: Ocober 19 2009
Camera: Olympus X-40
Exposure: 0.5 (1/2) sec.
Aperture: f/3.1
Focal Length: 6.3 mm
Exposure Bias: +0.3 EV
ISO Speed: 100
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[Blayden]

I did a photo shoot at a cemetery with a few models. I was using a long shutter speed (6 seconds) and had the models move around the tomb stone creating a ghost affect. I was triggering a 2nd flash off axis to capture a 2nd ghost image.

Canon Digital Rebel XTi
6.0 sec shutter speed
Manual Exposure
f/4.5
ISO 200
focal length: 34 mm
Lens: EF-S18-55mm kit lens

Here are two images from my shoot.
http://blayden.zenfolio.com/img/v0/p946661671-5.jpg

http://blayden.zenfolio.com/img/v8/p882959343-5.jpg

For full resolution images, visit Blayden Thompson Fine Art Photography

[daddyoproductions]

Have faith in the mods, those of you who either don't like, can't do, or can't afford post processing . Mods are always suggesting practice and improvement of technical ability, since that is the main focus of this site, for us all to grow as photographers. I have faith that they will not choose 3 heavily edited photos for the contest, nor necessarily 3 that have minimal PP. I think they do a good job of balancing their choices, which must be difficult because photography (like all art) is so subjective, and look at the sheer volume of some of these assignments. Focus on your personal growth, and fear not, the deserving shall get what is coming to them...mwah ha ha

"Next week is "Scary or Spooky"...
Remember, you should be using some of the things you learned in past assignments. For an assignment like this, lighting can really make a difference. Use it to create a mood, hide something in shadows, imagine what ghetto lighting can do. Perhaps High ISO will give a graininess to your image that enhances the feeling. Remember the Negative Space and Contrast assignments? What have you learned about composition? Consider the Rule of Thirds and Natural Framing.

Creative assignments such as these need to include some of the technical things you know. The more you practice those technical basics with every assignment, the more second nature they become."