I had a fun shoot recently with Azura Rose where we happened across a building mid-demolition! The construction workers were wrapping up for the day and had no problem with us shooting a safe distance from the rubble. It was fascinating to see the interior rooms of the massive apartment building open like that, with the different colors of paint. Strings of rebar hanging like veins. The…

Feb 3, 2021 - Looking back on October 2020 - Halloween 2020

On Halloween, my niece has always brought her twin daughters over to my house to get dressed in their always unique and imaginative costumes. They put a lot of thought into their creations it’s usually always require careful make up application for their faces. They make the decisions about it and we just help them do it. Once they are ready we usually go into town so they can go trick-or-treating but none of that could happen this year because of Covid.

So this year, my niece and I came up with the idea of a haunted garden at my place since I had an area that was partially enclosed, a garden I had let go but was in the middle of renovating. I already had some Halloween props, like the Dracula, bride, and skeleton dogs above, so we added a few more props and tried to make a creepy haunted garden. That way we would be outside and everyone could be socially distant.

We had them make their way in the dark through a bamboo maze first with creepy whispering soundtrack surrounding them. After they screamed their way through that they entered the garden. At the back of the garden I set up a special cloth screen which would display, what is referred to as a Halloween digital decoration. When back projected with a digital projector it looks like a moving holographic images appearing in the darkness. I have never done any of this before, and never had seen digital decorations in person, only online.

Halloween Ideas- Ghostly Bride

Over the next few weeks I’ll post some of my favorite spooky themed shoots from the past with ideas on how to make a version of the outfits for your own Halloween look! Today’s theme is Ghostly Bride (or Corpse Bride, Haunted Wedding, etc). For creating your own haunted bride outfit you can often find elaborate wedding veils at thrift shops this time of year or make your own out of a length of…