Dester Wallaboo

Thanks Mick!

The eye effects were accomplished all in post. Knowing these were going to be stills only, I knew post-effects would be simplest, and least traumatic for everyone involved. Had this...

One of my editor's in my studio has a fair amount of experience doing realistic monster makeup..... so I asked her if she would do some makeup for our family zombie pics. She does pretty amazing...

Thanks, mate!

Thank you... :-)

This is our daughter. We were shooting family pics as zombies. At first she was a bit reticent to do it. But once she got all of her costume and makeup on.... she was totally 'in...

Thanks! Very much appreciated.

Thanks! Much appreciated.

We were shooting a big family photo for Halloween. I decided to pull everyone into the studio before going into location so I could snap a couple of controlled-lighting...

Placed 1^st in the challenge.

Size limitation is an odd requirement.... not sure why that was included in the challenge.

Placed 50^th in the challenge. My studio was shooting a TV commercial for a zombie ammo box. So we had several of the talent made up as full zombies. I pulled a few of the talent back into the studio for some quick photos prior to going and shooting full commercial outdoors on a lonely, cracked street.

Placed 64^th in the challenge.

Sorry guys... this is one field I'm intimately familiar with.... and there is no way this camera is worth this amount of money. I'd buy a Red Scarlet before buying this camera.

Danke!

By the way... this isn't the first time I've seen this in a challenge. I've been a professional for half my life, and I'm frequently surprised by which images make the top 10 images. I suspect...

I agree..... was totally surprised to see such low scores on quite a few obviously great shots.Either there is cheating going on. Or possibly people don't have an eye to see what differentiates...

Placed 9^th in the challenge.

OK... seriously.... I look at the contest entries in this series and was totally surprised to see the winning image... this image is pretty awesome. You definitely deserved to have gotten a much...

Placed 63^rd in the challenge.

Placed 61^st in the challenge. Wife shot this on Halloween.... I love taking my kids photos and making them into a fantasy piece. I threw this together in about an hour in Photoshop. Our daughter, who was four at the time, wanted to me to go get the sword for her because she wanted to play with it... :D

Placed 5^th in the challenge.

Placed 93^rd in the challenge.