Is this creepy?

[James Shadle]

Nikon D700 Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 @ 28mm
ISO 400 15 Seconds F5

Red Light for about 3 seconds.

[Chris Korman]

I think it may be more effective if placed in a scene of people not observing it such as on a city street w/ people walking in front of and behind it. Right now it is kind of floating above the house, not really at a level that makes sense for someone to be "standing."

[Brendan Dozier]

James, does the name "Boo Radley" mean anything to you? I think you might have topped Christopher's spooky old house/ dark window shot. :bg3:

[Kerry Perkins]

James, the shot of you is definitely creepy. I agree with Chris though as far as putting it in this particular scene. I think it would work better in the context of an old room in a historical building or something like that. Ghost buster stuff, ya know... :c3:

[denise ippolito]

James, Please set up the scene for us. Who took the image? Did you? From inside the car? Or right in front of it? This is creepy-but in a cool way. Would love to know more as I am confused.:2

[pat lillich]

James, made me think of some of the urban myths I grew up with in Oregon - definitely creepy.

[Nick Palmieri]

One weekend with Roman and you're doing blurs???? He does that to you and he's not a blur guy...

[James Shadle]

Nick,
I've been blurry for years!

Denise,
I was in my yard photographing star points. As it turns out I'm to cool and don't have the attention span for star points. As boredom took control (it doesn't take long) I started doing what comes naturally to me. I started getting stupid.*

This image has star points, trees and my neighbors house.
I fired the shutter for the 15 second exposure. About 2 seconds in I stepped in front of the camera and turned on a red head lamp pointed at my face. I exposed my face for about 3 seconds and then ran out of the frame.

Leaving about 10 seconds left without me in the frame, that's why I'm a hovering headshot.

Frankly I was less concerned about the composition and more concerned about the technique used to creep someone out.


(*getting stupid means you won't find it in a book and/or someone said you shouldn't or can't do it)

[Kerry Perkins]

James, ya got me! I thought this was a composite. I didn't think I saw this technique in Roman's book... Definitely works for creepy!

[Myer Bornstein]

Very, very interesting definitely OOB :bg3:

[Roman Kurywczak]

Definitely not in the book......but might be in the next one under "stupid stuff".....aka not in the book!:eek: I'll post mine now:bg3:!

[denise ippolito]

James, Thanks for the explanation, for some reason I thought you were behind the wheel. IAC- Very cool effect!!

[Maureen Allen]

Very creepy indeed :eek:

[Andrew McLachlan]

Definitely creepy! Thanks for the info on how you shot it.

[Indranil Sircar]

I like this... kinda sci-fi scene... bg house, darkness, floating head.. nice spooky one.

[Arthur Morris]

I would have never guessed that it was you. I thought that it was Superman what with the "S" on the neck....