DirtyGlassEye
Schoolhouse specters
This is the 5th post in my Halloween mini-series. (This was taken at the Douglas Schoolhouse in Oregon).
One of the the more crucial pieces my mentor taught me was how to make your own effects in photos. While that process would more commonly mean moving a branch or a leaf around I had a larger imagination when examining this spot. I was gonna go ghost hunting.
I had two basic ideas to do the effect. Option A: A front view with a starbursted flashlight in the doorway. Option B: What this image ended up being. One way or another I was gonna have to rely on the timers to set up the shots. Since the sky was largely uncooperative (eg. the Milky Way being in the complete wrong area), I was able to move onto this quickly.
So with a long timer I went and kicked up dry dust creating a ghost-like illusion. The only problem of this capture was I accidently left a light on inside the school, which made the image a bit brighter then I wanted to.
On top of that there was still a tad too much light pollution from The Dalles and the sky was warmer then I wanted it to be. That still left me with what to do in editing, this was going to be a tricky one since I didn't think I could risk the image getting more dark then it already inherently was., but I HAD to deal with that doorway.
At first the spirits were not kind to me, I tried and tried again but I couldn't tamper with the sky without consequently silhouetting the church. So I did something I normally don't do, I did a complete restart, and oddly enough I had an acceptable result within 10 minutes. Sometimes simplicity is the answer, and I had just had to do a largely black and white filter.
The owners of the field were smart to close the road. But if there's one thing I learned from past excursions is that fence gates are never meant to make you stop, ditch the car and continue on foot (unless ofcourse there are specific signs telling you otherwise). It's about a 4 mile walk from the nearest road (round trip).
Schoolhouse specters
This is the 5th post in my Halloween mini-series. (This was taken at the Douglas Schoolhouse in Oregon).
One of the the more crucial pieces my mentor taught me was how to make your own effects in photos. While that process would more commonly mean moving a branch or a leaf around I had a larger imagination when examining this spot. I was gonna go ghost hunting.
I had two basic ideas to do the effect. Option A: A front view with a starbursted flashlight in the doorway. Option B: What this image ended up being. One way or another I was gonna have to rely on the timers to set up the shots. Since the sky was largely uncooperative (eg. the Milky Way being in the complete wrong area), I was able to move onto this quickly.
So with a long timer I went and kicked up dry dust creating a ghost-like illusion. The only problem of this capture was I accidently left a light on inside the school, which made the image a bit brighter then I wanted to.
On top of that there was still a tad too much light pollution from The Dalles and the sky was warmer then I wanted it to be. That still left me with what to do in editing, this was going to be a tricky one since I didn't think I could risk the image getting more dark then it already inherently was., but I HAD to deal with that doorway.
At first the spirits were not kind to me, I tried and tried again but I couldn't tamper with the sky without consequently silhouetting the church. So I did something I normally don't do, I did a complete restart, and oddly enough I had an acceptable result within 10 minutes. Sometimes simplicity is the answer, and I had just had to do a largely black and white filter.
The owners of the field were smart to close the road. But if there's one thing I learned from past excursions is that fence gates are never meant to make you stop, ditch the car and continue on foot (unless ofcourse there are specific signs telling you otherwise). It's about a 4 mile walk from the nearest road (round trip).