Creepy house adventure, Part 2

So a couple weekends ago I had a “creepy house adventure” with my friend. You can read and see pictures from Part 1 of this post right here!

After D and I poked around for a while taking shots of shattered glass, missing floorboards, holes in walls, busted up appliances and other normal things like that, I wanted to see how creepy of pictures I could get. I had previously asked D to dress in dark clothing and be my muse for a while… fortunately he obliged.

I struggled with creating a “ghost-like” effect, toying with my shutter speeds to capture just the right blur of motion/faint figure in the room. I had D walk really fast… then really slow… then really fast again. But I just couldn’t seem to get it quite right. Nonetheless, I still did get some pretty cool shots that I think evoke the eeriness of this abandoned and decrepit house… and they are below.

Here I am setting up for some spookiness in my beautiful surroundings: 

And here’s some spookiness:

PS: If you guys have any tips, tricks, advice, etc. for capturing “ghost-like” images please share them with me. Not that I plan on doing stuff like this often… I just got pretty frustrated when I couldn’t figure it out and it’d be nice to get some input from fellow photogs 🙂

Thanks for looking 😉

E

Creepy house adventure, Part 1

So earlier this week I had to apologize to my blog… I’ve been having so much fun snapping up pictures recently that I haven’t had time to post them! But here’s hoping I’m on the road to correcting that 🙂

In my apology post I gave a little preview of a post to come and I am happy to now bring you Part 1! A few weekends ago my friend D and I went to an abandoned house that was introduced to me by a fellow photographer. This place is cool. Normally, I’m not a fan of creepy places, movies, pictures, etc., but the fact that we went in broad daylight and I had a big tall man with me helped ease any of my apprehensions. 

Here are a few shots from the day… more to come later in Part 2 of this post!

Here’s D:

And here’s the house: