Tips For Great Halloween Pictures
October is a great month for taking pictures.
Autumn has arrived to bring us cooler weather and beautiful landscapes across the country, a great combination for photographs! Today we'll be giving you a few tips for generating the most perfect photographs on this extra spooky day - Halloween! Taking the perfect Halloween picture can, in fact, be somewhat complicated for the amateur photographer.
Although it's pretty easy to get the image you want in your shot, there are a few tweaks and tips you should abide by to make the most out of your Halloween pictures.
After all, it only happens once a year! Using these three tips, also known as the NYI guidelines, you'll be on the right track to taking great photos in no time: Know your subject Draw attention to your subject Simplify your image However, for special times like this, the Three Guidelines are only part of the story on how to get great Halloween photographs.
The second key is to capture the "spirit" of Halloween.
The spirit of Halloween can incorporate many things such as fantasy, fear, paranormal, and eerie.
How can we capture this "spirit" in our Halloween photographs? Not surprisingly, the best way is actually using the proper lighting.
Since nighttime ghouls are so central to the holiday, this often means shooting at night or in dim light to capture that extra ghoulish effect.
You should also avoid using your flash on Halloween, it tends to focus less on the dark and mysterious with a huge flash of light all over the image.
For Halloween you should be using ambient lighting, placed in different spots for the best effect.
For photographing trick or treaters or Halloween costumes Halloween is very popular in America just for the fact that it's the one day of the year where you can dress ass whatever you want! Costume sales are continually on the rise which means more and more opportunities to take wonderfully scary photographs! When capturing your children or guests in their Halloween costumes, first decide what the best part of the costume is - whether that be the whole costume or just the mask - and then fill the frame with what you think is the most important aspect of the costume.
You should also make sure to take a photo of your subject with their mask off as well! That way in the future there is no question of the identity behind the mask.
Don't forget to try being higher and lower than your subject to make the image seem a little more scary.
Don't forget that Halloween is also the perfect time for your Halloween slide scanning, photo scanning, and negative scanning projects! Convert your old Halloween pictures to digital images on DVD and upload them to the internet to share with friends!
Autumn has arrived to bring us cooler weather and beautiful landscapes across the country, a great combination for photographs! Today we'll be giving you a few tips for generating the most perfect photographs on this extra spooky day - Halloween! Taking the perfect Halloween picture can, in fact, be somewhat complicated for the amateur photographer.
Although it's pretty easy to get the image you want in your shot, there are a few tweaks and tips you should abide by to make the most out of your Halloween pictures.
After all, it only happens once a year! Using these three tips, also known as the NYI guidelines, you'll be on the right track to taking great photos in no time: Know your subject Draw attention to your subject Simplify your image However, for special times like this, the Three Guidelines are only part of the story on how to get great Halloween photographs.
The second key is to capture the "spirit" of Halloween.
The spirit of Halloween can incorporate many things such as fantasy, fear, paranormal, and eerie.
How can we capture this "spirit" in our Halloween photographs? Not surprisingly, the best way is actually using the proper lighting.
Since nighttime ghouls are so central to the holiday, this often means shooting at night or in dim light to capture that extra ghoulish effect.
You should also avoid using your flash on Halloween, it tends to focus less on the dark and mysterious with a huge flash of light all over the image.
For Halloween you should be using ambient lighting, placed in different spots for the best effect.
For photographing trick or treaters or Halloween costumes Halloween is very popular in America just for the fact that it's the one day of the year where you can dress ass whatever you want! Costume sales are continually on the rise which means more and more opportunities to take wonderfully scary photographs! When capturing your children or guests in their Halloween costumes, first decide what the best part of the costume is - whether that be the whole costume or just the mask - and then fill the frame with what you think is the most important aspect of the costume.
You should also make sure to take a photo of your subject with their mask off as well! That way in the future there is no question of the identity behind the mask.
Don't forget to try being higher and lower than your subject to make the image seem a little more scary.
Don't forget that Halloween is also the perfect time for your Halloween slide scanning, photo scanning, and negative scanning projects! Convert your old Halloween pictures to digital images on DVD and upload them to the internet to share with friends!
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