Awakening

For The Sunday Challenge group, who's theme this week was for Hallowe'en, as in "spooky shots."

I schlepped all the way to the cemetery at 5 in the morning to get this shot. When I got there, it was still pitch black - let me tell you, that was kind of spooky all by itself. I searched for just the right headstone with a tiny flashlight, set up my camera and then waited for the dawn to just start breaking in the East. I wanted a little light because I knew I was going to layer in a full moon. After I had the basic shot of the headstone and cemetery surrounds, I went home and added the moon, the bat and the raven sitting on the headstone. That night, I waited until it was dark so I could take the picture of my arm. I smeared my arm with potting soil and slightly back-lit it to simulate the moonlight I had added to my picture. And then another shot of some dirt being thrust up for where the arm joined with the ground and my shot was complete. I converted it to black and white just for the sake of being more creepy - like all those classic horror movies. I also did a little post-processing work on the headstone itself to alter the text on it slightly more toward my purposes. Be sure to open it big to make it easier to read.

Fantastic creative work. It took me a time to see your arm, but the text on the stone is brilliant.

Nice! =D

that's a distinctly disturbing image

Fantastic piece of work - very creepy . love the amendments to the headstone. Great work

ahh a graveyard in the dark, I love that! this is amazing work Kenny, I don't know how you do all the layering like this but wow, it's excellent!

Very well done Kenny ... certainly spooked me!

Ahhh! Run for the hills! Well done, Kenny!

Oh Kenny, this is so good. Love the name change and the bird on the headstone too.

great idea, well done

Fantastic shot.

A lot of work went into this shot and it shows. Thanks for letting us know how you did it.

Well done on all the effort you put into this. Very creative and clever.

Super!

Great photo! Love it!

Well you hit "creepy" on the head with this one!

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