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Orange, Green, Black: The Ghost Of Halloween Past

Challenge #8 in the Colours & Shades: The World I Know series. Hosted by Stormcastle.

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This challenge is about the sights and colours of Halloween - pumpkins, candy, costumes, and the dark of night. Did you go along with your kids? Did you decorate your house? Did you take pics of kids coming to your door? Show us what Halloween is all about. Now that it's been a few weeks since Halloween, we're sure that you're recovered from the little ghouls and goblins that terrorized you.

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Announced:

Saturday, 13th November, 2010 (GMT)

Submissions:

Saturday, 20th November, 2010 – Friday, 26th November, 2010 (GMT)

Voting:

Saturday, 27th November, 2010 – Friday, 3rd December, 2010 (GMT)

Processing rules:

- Photos **MUST** be from Halloween - though not this year's specifically.
- Both colour and B&W
- HDR is allowed in this challenge
- No scanned images
- No digital composites
- Do not frame photos or watermark them
- Only photos that you, yourself, have taken

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

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VOTING GUIDE:
Please adhere to the following guide for voting in this challenge.
0.5 star: Does not meet challenge topic/rules
1 star: Poor quality
2 star: Adequate
3 star: Good
4 star: Excellent
5 star: Spectacular/Epic/Awesome
The 0.5 star rule is the most important! If you do not like the photo, please rate it with a single star as it is much better for expressing constructive criticism.
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You are asked to only submit photos that are honest to the subject matter and are more spur of the moment if you can - pre-planned photographs add an artificial quality.
However, ultimate judgment on what you submit is entirely up to you.

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The Pumpkin King

by buckshot

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Camera:	FujiFilm FinePix S9100 (FinePix S9600)
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Submitted:	Tuesday, 23rd November, 2010 18:36 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 31st October, 2008
Focal length:	9.3 mm
Shutter speed:	3/2 sec
Aperture:	F3.6
ISO:	200
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Galleries:	View this photo in buckshot's gallery

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scgushue

Well, for someone whom is not a photographer to pull this off...Kudos to you. I think what may be lost to a lot of individuals that look at this image is just how tough and time consuming it is to pull off this quality image.

Great results, professional looking and well thought out execution. And this from someone who is a professional photographer. You should be proud of this shot.

It make me want to do a setup next year and take this a step further;)

Thanks for posting and congrats!

Stephen

Feb 16, 2011permalink

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inframan

> Beautifully done. Thanks for sharing all these.

Thank you and you are Welcome

--
JB
I am not a photographer, I’m just a guy that takes pictures.
http://www.buckshot.BuckshotsPhotos.photoshare.co.nz
http://www.fujimugs.com/mugshots/show_member.php?country=&act=&hasmug=&challenge=&cat=&sortby=&sortdir=&thumb=&srch=&member=1341

Dec 4, 2010permalink

inframan

Beautifully done. Thanks for sharing all these.

Dec 4, 2010permalink

buckshot

It is an honor to be picked #1 Thank you

Here are a few more images and the setup

This one shows how big that guy was

http://www.photoshare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100779/103956/DSCF6481_david_________small1986_M.jpg

The setup (I am as my sig says, not a photographer) consists of one piece of black foam core board and the good old sun :-D the fog is dry ice. I thought I would get a chance to shoot away ... I only had fog for two shots.

http://www.photoshare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100779/103956/DSCF6562_setup_______________small8073_M.jpg

This was the only other shot

http://www.photoshare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100779/103956/DSCF6561_lvl_cln_cln_filtered_crp_sm_shp377_M.jpg

The full smile

http://www.photoshare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100779/103956/DSCF6562_crp2lvl_clonelvl_filtered_____________small1437.jpg

and lit

http://www.photoshare.co.nz/PhotoShareGallery1/100779/103956/DSCF6518_lvl_smshpclonefullface5486_S.jpg

Thanks again folks

Dec 4, 2010permalink

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