Thread: First Yard Haunt Pics!

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Thanks to many of you here for inspiration and help. Took me a month to set it all up since it was by myself on the weekends. Had over 200 TOTs taking pictures, etc. One thing to note was that the fog through my two giant chillers was everywhere after a while about 3inches off the ground. I had loudspeakers hidden playing haunting, relevant sounds the whole night very loud (chains, crows, cats, zombie groans and wicked laughs, all relevant to decor). I was in a devil/pagan cloak sitting motionless in the center eventually and that freaked people out the most even though I didn't move for 4 hrs. ) Already planning on improvements in my head for next year. More lights on edge of house, etc.


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Looks great!!!
Congrats on first year.

Awesome pics of awesome props. Very nicely done !!!

Thanks! Used a lot of basic props and added to them. Some magnet LED pins for eyes, accessories...also found that a great poor-man's flood light are cheap LED flashlights. Got a pack of 3 of them from Amazon for $12. Super bright. I'm a photographer so I had color gels lying around i cut out circles and taped them to flash lights for long-lasting wireless spot/flood lighting.

Watch the dollar stores for those LED flashlights. I got about 2 dozen of them last year !!!

That explains the great pictures (you being a photographer). Could you tell me what type ccamera you were using. I tried just about every setting on mine including tripod and still they did not come out as good as yours.

Scubaspook: It's not the camera. What you need to do is, if you can, set the shutter and aperature numbers manually. Auto-exposures can't get these type of challenging settings right. So use at least ISO 400 (higher depending on your camera but if you don't have an SLR, don't go higher than that as it will get very grainy). You want the aperture number (f/2.0,5.6, etc.) to be a higher number such as 6.3, 7.1, 8.0, etc. The reason is that with dim lighting if the number is low, the tiny lights will bloom and lose detail. Higher f/ #s will keep that in check. Then the shutter will have to be as slow as it takes to get a good exposure. Night, it will be very slow so hand held it will be almost impossible. I took these hand held, but I've been practicing for 11 years and have very steady technique and hands. The shutter at twilight will be at least 1/8th second. That is very slow and without a tripod it WILL blur. Oh, yeah, you never want to try to take the picture at full darkness. All pro "night " pictures are actually at twilight. When the sun has set and there's still a dim glow in the sky. Hope that helps.