The Dark SideFor Halloween my youngest brother (pictured here) dressed up as Darth Vader. We took a whole lot of pictures but I decided this was definitely the one I was going to use. I had him stand up on a table and pose while I crouched down and took photos of him at different angles (on program mode). The pose that is re-enacting is an iconic pose of the actual Darth Vader where he holds his sober and sticks his hand out to "choke' his enemy. The colour combination of red and black and the leafy background made me fall in love with this photo, along with the worm's eye-view angle and his posing.
While I was editing this photo, I wanted to make the trees in the back and the red throughout his costume pop out as well as adding more red to the photo. I dropped the contrast and bumped up the exposure to bring out the background and the red. To add more red to the photo, I used the brush tool. I chose a somewhat dark red, lowered the brush opacity and chose a fuzzy edged circular brush to colour in his mask's eye holes. |
Axe ManI took this photo on Halloween in my friend's garage while we were handing out candy to trick or treaters. He had a prop axe and scary mask that one of us was wearing for fun and when I turned around to the back wall I noticed our silhouettes. The driveway lights were shining towards us causing our silhouettes to stand out on the wall, I pointed it out to my friend and told him and my other friend to stay standing where they were. I grabbed the prop axe with one hand and put it above my head so it looked like I was ready to swing it into his head. With the other hand, I took several pictures (many of which turned out blurry) to capture our shadows. The photo reminds me of one of those classic slasher horror movie scenes where the killer slaughters the victim and it just shows the shadow of the killer's weapon going up and down into the victim while blood splatters on the wall.
To edit the photo, I cropped out the majority of the ceiling and added a bit of grain to make it look more old-fashioned. Then I added a crimson filter to make it look more Halloween worthy. |
Hamburger HelperMy second youngest brother dressed up as a hamburger for Halloween (as he does every year). I propped him up on a table and he was the one who decided to pose with a tomato. I liked how he used the tomato as a prop to match his hamburger outfit, and I also liked how he posed as if he was going to throw it at me. Another reason why I chose this photo is because the colours of his costume looked quite nice together.
While editing this photo, all I did was crop maybe a centimetre off the bottom to get rid of my other brothers head. Then I dropped the contrast and boosted the saturation, while also lowering the exposure just a bit. I did this to make the colours pop and reduce the parts that looked kind of over-exposed (such as the sky). |