Season of Shadows Blog

I just added this year’s Halloween image gallery. There were a few last minute changes, prior to the 31st. You may remember, from my Haunter’s Reality 2 Video, I originally wanted to turn the scarecrow corpse into a fog machine prop. However, after a lot of testing, it just wasn’t feasible. There was too much moisture condensing and settling inside his mouth. If left unattended, throughout the night, I was concerned it would mess with the mache.

Overall, it was a great night. I learned a lot about adding detail and prop building this year and am looking forward to developing next year’s haunt. I hope you enjoy the photos!

Until the Halloween ’08 page is up, I thought I would show more preview images from the 31st. I picked up a really small tripod this year. It allowed me to get more up close and personal with the props. I crawled around in the leaves and dirt to grab each shot. I do my best to wait until after the trick-or-treaters have left, but sometimes I can’t resist getting in there and snapping an image or two, just to see how they’ll turn out in the camera’s LCD monitor.

The trick-or-treaters usually don’t thin out until after 9 PM, but they did let up a little earlier this year. We didn’t receive as many knocks on the door as years past. Maybe the whole Friday night thing took a lot of them into Albuquerque for parties, mall walks and other Halloween socials. There were a couple of cool pro haunted houses being hosted up that way as well. I’d like to check them out next year for a Haunter’s Reality Video.

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