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Death City Halloween

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I like jackolanterns and I like Soul Eater, so not surprisingly I've had this Lord Death pumpkin for a while now. (Which yes, is not a real pumpkin, but a decorative fake.) This year I put it in a new spot, being the location you see here, and got the idea for this photo. However, I don't have a particularly new camera at all, and sure enough, the dim spotlight scene that looked cool to the human eye was a grainy mess to the inadequate low-light capabilities of an old digital camera, even when doing the HDR thing. In fact, combining the multiple images together just made the graininess worse. It also didn't help that my camera doesn't do HDR bracketing, so I had to manually change the settings between photos and thus move the camera a tiny bit on the tripod. As such the different exposure could never line up perfectly.

So, I was initially disappointed by the results, but then had an idea- Why not use the blurry, grainy aspect on purpose and go for a spooky Halloween vibe? It totally works for Soul Eater, what with the madness of the Kishin and all. With that in mind I cranked up the various HDR processing options to weird levels and did some color editing and minor manual cleanup afterwards and here we are. It's by no means a technically great photo, in fact there's a lot of things wrong, but I think it's fairly cool as a stylized Halloween sorta deal.

Finally, I'd imagine some of you are thinking "hey, the Madness angle is cool and all, but wouldn't that make so much more sense for a Kishin pumpkin?" To that I say you are completely correct, and that would be pretty cool. However, I only have this Lord Death Pumpkin, and no extra artificial pumpkins to put the three Kishin eyes on. So until I get my hands on another fake to carve, this is the best I can do.

Oh, and if you're not watching Soul Eater, you totally should, it's in my top three animes ever. EVER.
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SirMarZ's avatar
almost that time again