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Making Spooky Photographs
Scary is easy to find. It presents itself with light and dark, odd angles, and looming images taken from below. A nest of bare branches becomes something sinister – a portal to the macabre. A dead tree and a storm sky takes on an ominous tone -
Touring an abandoned prison, walked up the stairs and as I was climbing them, I stopped and took a picture of the window, but at an angle, making it disorienting.
Arms stuck up in the air in a corn field after the sunset. Tells a story of terror after dark in the corn rows.
A corn maze with the bright spotlight, casting a shadow.
Nightvision makes everything creepy and turns regular people into zombies.
Abandoned place – a single chair. Tells a bleak story.
Dinosaur park with sky behind and tree – looks like real Jurassic.
The road going into some barren woods – makes you wonder what's around the bend….
Move around while taking a photo and you have a ghost -
Dark sky and a silhouette of a steeple, leaves you with a feeling of foreboding. Back lighting and silhouettes always create mystery.
Silhouettes in graveyards are impressive, as well. With the sun behind a grave, it becomes a dark outline -
Black and white – cemeteries always look more foreboding if they look like Night of the Living Dead (btw, this was at Evans City Cemetery – where it was filmed).
Shadows always make interesting statements.
With the sun behind you, you can cast a wicked shadow -
As well, the use of light can create mystery.
This season, when you go about the cornfields, pumpkin patches, and autumn trees, think about how to get the most foreboding photographs. Sometimes, a simple change of perspective can make something imposing, like lying down and shooting up at the object or hitting it during a sunset and letting it silhouette….
Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2014/09/making-spooky-photographs.html
