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October 31, 2006
Happy Halloween!
OK now it's time to take Halloween seriously. No more playing around. I attended Laurel Hill Cemetery's special Halloween tour, and I did my best to soak up the spirits, which did not disappoint. Lest anyone think I am kidding, the languid and maudlin angel shown in the next picture is literally prying open the lid of the crypt behind her to let the spirit out.
Many might think so, but then, they need their denial, and I will not interfere. (But in fairness, if they haven't seen an actual ghost, how can they know for sure that this isn't one?) Trying to beat the Halloween nighttime deadline, I managed to carve a pumpkin just before darkness had fully set in, and then right in this blog -- before my very eyes! -- another, even spookier cemetery scene managed to insinuate itself into the pumpkin image.
posted by Eric on 10.31.06 at 05:38 PM |
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That, sir, is an awesome pumpkin.
Oh, and if your camera has a "fill flash" mode (the icon is a little figure standing in front of a star), then you can take even cooler ghost pictures. What you need is a tripod and a dark room— very low light sources are best, but incandescents alone work just fine. Then you click the button and have someone walk in front of the camera.
It measures for ambient light and sets the shutter speed that way, but also has a flash— so the walking person is frozen in front of the camera, but transparent. Examples:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedragonweaver/267499270/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedragonweaver/281514677/
(That second one, there was someone else taking flash photos, so I got two positions instead of one.)