Hold On Now Charlie    Nomeca Hartwell

This little adventure in ‘horror’ shooting took place  at Dale G.’s private studio. I ended up using his Canon 5D Mark IV since my D750 was in repairland. I have to give credit to Dale for the setup, lighting too. My contribution was in the processing and converting the jpeg to an infrared look  which really brought out Charlie’s  crazy eyes. After that I   created  a photo filter for a chocolate-brown ambience (that didn’t quite get there).   ISO 100, f/7.1/ 2.5 secs. 33mm focal length.

Well…Hello Dolly    Dale George

Hello Dolly was shot using a cheep plastic 2 piece backdrop purchased at Halloween City. I taped each sheet to my outside garage wall and carefully matched them together for the complete scene.I placed one of my many props in various positions till I had the pose and adequate distance from the backdrop. It was a foggy day so the subdued light was perfect as plastic backdrops can present a problem with glare.
Shot with a Canon 5DMK IV and 24-70 lens combination. ISO was 250, aperture at f/10 for additional depth of field, shutter speed 1/100 sec. Editing was first done in ON1 Photo 10 Suite. I use this software for its “magic erasure” as it is really good and easily removes objects like fold creases, of which there were many. It seems to be able to clone in what is needed to blend the removed portion.
Lastly, editing was done in Lightroom and some minor tweaking in Color Efex Pro (DXO). Mainly I did some detail extractor, adjustment in bringing out shadows and punching up the whites a bit.

Night Owl    Jim Heern

Amanita Muscaria    Jim Ingraham

Vintage Flyer    Dale George