Halloween Pics

I'm still fumbling about with how to take decent low-light pictures of things and pumpkins and house decorations. I hadn't even touched my camera in months, and had to hastily charge the battery to get some shots done before Halloween night had passed by. I have neither a real tripod or anything but the kit lens, and so there are some logistical challenges to add to my shallow understanding of effective camera settings. In the rain.

So this is my best effort.


The whole house. Overexposed, but you get the idea. Slightly visible: The string of glowing eye lights hidden in the bush in front of the porch.



Inside the truck sits this creepy fellow, whose illumination was actually done via a strobe light, and has eyes that glow shifting colors.



It may not be terribly apparent in the whole house photo, but in order to approach our front door, you have two options: 1. Truding uphill through our wet lawn 2. Walking up the driveway, and taking three steps down to the front walk, while creepyface stares you down.


The cast of pumpkins:




They lit the way up the driveway to the porch.







There was another small strobe light and a fog machine on the porch. It didn't make a huge amount of fog, and it had a tendency to dissipate down the hill rather quickly.

There were spider webs everywhere:






EVERYWHERE.





Josh's costume scared little kids quite effectively.



As the less scary one, I started manning the door for the very tiny kids, who we could often hear being encouragingly cajoled by their parents that it was okay, to go ahead and go up to the door.



My hat was comically small, and did not fit on my head at all. I ended up forcing it to stay in place through creative use of a headband, an earring, and a snap clip on the back of my head. I do not seem to own any safety pins.


My favorite quote from the evening?
"I'm not scared, I have a flashlight.