Spooky

[Tersha]

It’s the build up to Halloween, so I thought anything Spooky!

This shot was playing with a prism and a glass skull …

[Patrick]

Very cool shot Tersha , sounds like a fun thread i need to go work on something now 🙂

Quick one 

 

More strange than spooky haha

[Tersha]

Strange and spooky Patrick, I knew you’d have some good ideas for this! 🙂

[Patrick]

🙂 good fun this.

[Dave Watkins]

Seems my reply wants to nest at the bottom again.

Diane. Love those multiple, vibrant colors throughout your image. Really enhances the eerie look to the skull.

[Tersha]

Thanks Dave!

[Dave Watkins]

Seeing this in real life would definitely be unsettling. You have quite the knack for adding just the right border to your work. Great job Patrick.

[Patrick]

Hi mate , thank you for your feedback dave always appreciated 😉

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love it Patrick. All the images you created under this theme have been intriguing and I also like the different post processing style you have used. The border on the image is classic 🙂

[Patrick]

Thank you so much Dahlia 🙂

[Beaky]

That looks rather cool @tersha

Haha right up your alley @patrickw  🙂

[Patrick]

🙂

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Very creative Diane. I love what you have done 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Dahlia!

[Astaroth]

Very interesting lighting, @tersha ! I like it very much!

[Tersha]

Thanks Astaroth!

[Patrick]

Had to dig out the halloween props lol

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Wow! Definitely looks spooky Patrick 🙂

[Patrick]

I scared myself with the wig haha

Thanks very much Dahlia 😉

[JasenkaG]

Love this, feels really cinematic!

[Patrick]

Thanks very much jasenka 🙂

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

That is actually quite disturbing, @patrickw – well done!

[Patrick]

Thanks very much Rob 🙂

[Tersha]

[Patrick]

Very Fitting , lovely work Tersha 😉

If you go down to the woods today ..

Come on folks let’s be having your shots live wild for a thread or two :).

[Astaroth]

I love the first one, @patrickw ! I’m never satisfied with my forest pictures. Very high lights and deep shadows to compensate. In your shot, you solve it and the result is very interesting.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Beautiful images Patrick 🙂

[Patrick]

Thanks very much Dahlia , Astaroth 😉

[Tersha]

Interesting set Patrick, the 3rd one is really good!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love the image a lot Diane 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Dahlia!

[Erik Fransman]

Diane, a long long time ago I saw Hitchcock’s “The Birds” in a night show. When the show was over it was already getting light and the birds were sitting in the trees waking up. That was really scary. Luckily I am over that now.

Nice shot though.

[Tersha]

Thanks Erik! “The Birds’ was definitely a scary film …. we used to get lots of rooks in the trees at the end of our garden, they used to look pretty scary!

[Graham Hart]

[Astaroth]

Very creepy, @diripics :)! Even there is a man thinking about to jump :p! There is a visual communication between the man and the pigeon. The bird could be a metaphor of his soul flying free. I like it.

[Graham Hart]

Hi Astaroth, I got the silhouette of the guy off the internet and shrunk him down heaps. He is actually a ghoul with long spidery fingers. I wanted him in a window but they’re all already dark so I put him on the roof instead. I didn’t make that connection between the jumper and the bird but I like the metaphor a lot.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love it Graham 🙂

[Graham Hart]

Thanks Dahlia.

[Patrick]

Love it Graham , nice share 🙂

[Graham Hart]

Cheers Patrick 🙂

[Tersha]

Very spooky Graham, the man makes it, and the story that Astaroth saw in it is very fitting!

[Graham Hart]

Thanks Diane. I agree that Astaroth’s story has added a connection which I didn’t see which is why LS is so great. Always learning 🙂

[Erik Fransman]

Graham, not really spooky but very good storytelling. I like it.

[JasenkaG]

[Astaroth]

Wow! I love the fog between the twisted branches in the first one, @jasenkag .

[JasenkaG]

Thank you!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Awesome images Jasenka 🙂

[Patrick]

Liking both of these nice share jasenka 🙂

[Tersha]

Really love the first one Jasenka, the low lying mist makes it!

[Astaroth]

Great shots in this thread! I like to explore some abandoned places and I have some pictures of creepy locations.

This is an abandoned slaughterhouse:

In the first one, the painting says “All you will die tonight” in Spanish (a very nice place :p).

This is an abandoned hospital:

And some dolls in abandoned factories (It seems to be a typical place to play with dolls :p).

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love these photos Astaroth. Agree with Jasenka about the last photo 🙂

[Patrick]

The dolls would have me high tailing it outta this joint lol 🙂

[Astaroth]

Thanks @dahliaambrose and @patrickw :)! Sincerely, I don’t know who brings dolls and plays torture them in this kind of places xD…

[Graham Hart]

Nice  shots. Wish I had places like this to wander through, must be a bit creepy though? Probably not the creepiest of them all but I really like the abandoned hospital shot. While derelict, it still has a sort of order about it like it hasn’t given up yet.

[Astaroth]

Thanks @diripics :)! Time ago I also though there wasn’t places like these in my area, but when you look for them, they appear.

The story of the hospital is sad. It was going to be a very important oncologist research center, but somebody stolen the money and disappeared. Now the building is in ruins and it never was used.

[Tersha]

Great spooky set @astaroth, the slaughterhouse is particularly spooky!

[Astaroth]

Thanks :)! They are very special places. This slaughterhouse is a urbex classic here :).

[Erik Fransman]

Astaroth, yes the last two, very Spooky!

[JasenkaG]

@astaroth Love the last shot. Superb creepiness! I’d use it as an album cover.

[Astaroth]

Thanks :)! I don’t know why sometimes there are broken toys and dolls in abandoned factories, but they are a very creepy subject!

[JasenkaG]

I think that photographers bring them on purpose 😉

[Astaroth]

haha, maybe!

[Erik Fransman]

@JasenkaG. Hmm Album cover. What kind of music do you like. 🙂

[davidc]

Spooky bit in Les Mis

[Patrick]

Love the atmosphere , nice share mate 🙂

[davidc]

Thanks, Patrick.

[Tersha]

Great atmosphere David!

[Federico Alegria]

Nice shots @astaroth, my sister really freaks out with dolls like that, I’m going to send her that photo right now jajaja.

[Astaroth]

Thanks @federicoalegria :)! I hope your sister likes it too :p!

[Federico Alegria]

Yeah mate! She insulted me, so I guess she liked it a lot :).

[Astaroth]

Jajaja xD

[Patrick]

[JasenkaG]

These are wonderful, I’d love to do a photoshoot in there!

[Patrick]

This place is the only place i got rather jumpy.

I’ll not be back 🙂

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love these images Patrick 🙂

[Patrick]

Thank you very much Dahlia 😉

[Tersha]

All very creepy Patrick, I wouldn’t fancy walking around there on my own!

[Patrick]

I went back on my own again a few days ago to get a few more , going again on monday to explore the other half 🙂

[Tersha]

From a few years back …

[Patrick]

Menacing .. love it 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Patrick!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Very interesting effect Diane 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Dahlia!

[Tom M]

Bloody…

[Tersha]

I keep coming back to this, it’s disturbing …. what is it!

@tojomor

[Tom M]

I’m not really sure what the “blood” is. A leak of some kind, looks like blood, doesn’t it? It was outside a building in town.

[Tersha]

Yes, it does look like blood! 🙂

[Patrick]

Another from the old linen mill.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

I am imagining a person in that spotlight. Great location and light Patrick 🙂

[Patrick]

Thank you Dahlia , that would be really cool , i must try find a willing assistant when i took these photos i was on my own and i only got to see a few spaces but there was many more interesting rooms and halls i should go back before they demolish what’s left ;).

[Patrick]

Early stage of something i am working on 🙂

[Astaroth]

I like it very much :)! It makes I feel a little nervous :)…

[Dahlia Ambrose]

It already looks very spooky Patrick 🙂

[Patrick]

It’s my new assistant haha 😉

[Patrick]

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Awesome locations Patrick. Where are these?

[Patrick]

This place is about 2 miles from my home here in belfast.

Here is a bit of footage ;).

https://youtu.be/vZPhCEdqZT4

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Thank you for sharing this Patrick. Such huge buildings that look very different inside from what they look outside!

[Astaroth]

Do you want spooky content? Ok, here we go :)…

Some time ago I went to the most bizarre exposition in my life. It was called “Dollhouse”, and was created by Fardou Keuning. Here some pictures from there.

It was exposed in “La Neomudéjar“ (Madrid), an old museum-factory with rusty machines that it increased the creepy value of the exposition.

I saw things that day that I prefer to forget :p.

[Patrick]

What a great set of photos , love the concept and the space that was used for this show.

great post mate nice share.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

These are very……spooky Astaroth. I think converting it to black and white with a dark mood will enhance the spookiness 🙂

[Tersha]

Oooh, beyond creepy! Great shots Astaroth!

[Astaroth]

Thanks to all :)! The exposition had much other creepy things, but I only took a few pictures with my mobile. It was the most bizarre I’d ever seen.

I’m agree with @dahliaambrose , I think black and white could fit very well :).

[Erik Fransman]

[Rob Eyers]

Hehehe…

[Patrick]

Haha ..trick or treat.

[Tersha]

Brilliant, I’m still laughing! 🙂

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Lol Erik 😀

[Federico Alegria]

Jajajaja, nice @erik-fransman

[David Chesterfield]

Spooky Lightpainting

 

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love them David 🙂

[Tersha]

Great spooky light painting David!

[Tersha]

amongst the leaves …

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Wow! Where is this Diane ?

[Tersha]

Hi Dahlia, I was inspired by Patrick to create something, so I took the skull ( I think it’s for an aquarium) out with me and placed it among the leaves!

@dahliaambrose

[Dahlia Ambrose]

That’s creative Diane 🙂

[Patrick]

Ha , great work Tersha i would be running for the hills 😉

[Tersha]

:). Patrick I was inspired by you to create something, so I took the skull out with me, and placed it there!
@patrickw

[Patrick]

Oh thanks , i really like what you made 😉

[Holly K]

A normal Halloween 🙂

[Tersha]

Cool shot Holly, love the mask!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

I like how you have composed this image with the background Holly 🙂

[Holly K]

Thanks, Tersha and Dahlia!

[Patrick]

Tonight’s moon looked nice and eerie , still learning with night images i am missing the blues and greens you get on the surface , it was cold so was out and in again after 2 shots lol.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Love this image Patrick. Did you mean the mineral colours on the moon? Try stacking and then bringing the colours out in Photoshop a little at a time. Very rarely a single shot will also work if the atmospheric conditions were great 🙂

[Patrick]

Thank you for the help Dahlia , yes it is the minerals i was meaning with my comment above , i shot this on a spare of the min out my backyard last night and it was real chilly so only took 2 quick shots , i will plan a better shot with warm coat next time.

Much appreciate your help 🙂

[Tersha]

Very nice moon shot Patrick, was this with your new Sigma lens?

[Patrick]

Hi Tersha thanks , yes first time trying a moon shot with it , i never used a remote or self timer so i think it could be a little more detailed but was happy for a first crack at it :).

[Wendy P]

“It was a dark and scary night . . .”

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Can see why! Love the beautiful atmosphere and the hint of stars Wendy. Brilliant image 🙂

[Wendy P]

Thanks Dahlia!

[Tersha]

Wow, this is brilliant Wendy! Best when seen large!

[Patrick]

Lovely capture Wendy , i have never caught lightening but would love one like this if i did , nice going 🙂

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Bloody hell. Who the hell are you people!?! Lol

[Patrick]

Haha good one 🙂

[Tersha]

Glass skull plus Prisma app on iPhone

[Tersha]

Plus one more skull in the leaves …

[Dahlia Ambrose]

This is a strong image Diane. Love it 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Dahlia!

[Patrick]

Very nice Tersha , i seriously would be ringing the cops if i seen this while out walking lol , nice one 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Patrick! 🙂

[Tersha]

Last one …
Beaks

[Patrick]

Loving the touch of pink light falling across these nice shot , what type of bird are these ?

[Tersha]

Thanks Patrick, I think they’re Rooks.

[Patrick]

Thanks for the info Tersha , spooky ones 🙂

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Wow! That’s a very creative shot Diane. Very abstract too. I’d have thought of it as some tool if you did not mention beaks! 🙂

[Tersha]

Thanks Dahlia!

[JasenkaG]

Here’s one more from me:

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Wow! Love the diptych Jasenka and this is real spooky 🙂

[Tersha]

Very mysterious and spooky Jasenka!

[Patrick]

Very nice work Jasenka , i get a simular vibe in this image of you that was used on the Queen II: The Album cover 😉

[JasenkaG]

Indeed, the lighting was pretty similar in that album cover image!

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