Thread: Photographing your haunt, help

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If you are using a digital camera you'll want to play with the settings... No flash... an exposure time between 1 and 4 seconds(depending how dark the scene is)....set the ISO to 200 or 400.

You'll also want a tripod, or at the very least have the camera braced against or atop of something to prevent any shaking.

I also bump up the exposure compensation (if your camera has that) by +1.

When taking the photo, take several using different angles and playing around with different settings. (Bracketing is what they call that)

Soon you'll be getting the shot you want.

Here is an example from my haunt this year.....


Other examples of my haunt using adjusted camera settings are here...
Halloween Forum - lilgeek's Album: Halloween 2008

Snap away and have fun!

You should be able to find very inexpensive tripods at Target and Wal-Mart. They're not the best in the world but they work fine with light digital cameras. As several posters pointed out, any flat surface that points the camera in the right direction will also work.

Yeah Mark, that's my $40 Dr. Shivers. He was a big hit. Here are links to the pictures and video...

Halloween 2008 - a set on Flickr

YouTube - Dead End Mannor

We're going to change up and make a lab scene for the Doc next year.