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Halloween Gallery Images

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29 October 2009 14:23

As well as being a great place to just browse around, the Photo answers gallery can be a great source of inspiration and ideas, if you're planning your own shoot. Using the tag system, it's easy to search for and find images along a specific theme, so to tie in with our halloween festivities, we've picked out a few of our favourite spooky, creepy or downright unsettling images from you, the gallery users. Some have been picked purely to celebrate the great job the photographer has done, but we've also picked a few that have great potential but still a little way to go...

Click on the thumbnails for a larger view, and don't be shy, leave the photographer a comment or a rating on the gallery page!

	Gothic Bride - KarlR Maybe not the scariest image of the bunch, but user KarlR has certainly captured a haunting ambience with this shot. The ruined location, combined with some heavy but well placed processing, infer that maybe the bride might be a ghost wandering the remains of her former residence? A great illustration for any number of tragic ghost stories!
	Haunting Tree - tee19810 A gnarled, dead tree amongst a group of other perfectly leafy counterparts, always slightly unsettling. The photographer here has done a great job of silhouetting the twisted branches against the cloudy sky and an eerie green tone has added to the mood. Not the strongest image compositionally, but definately a location worth photographing again.
	Whitby Abbey - Peter Holzapfel Whitby, steeped in lengend thanks to the books and movie adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula, is located in on the north east coast of England and is crammed with outstanding photo potential, not least the famous Whitby Abbey. Peter has captured this image that could have been taken right out of a hammer horror movie, looking across the overgrown graveyard with the imposing abbey jutting into the sky.
	More ghosts in the woods - anairdgloaming A dark forest full of row upon row of bare tree trunks that looks like it might have been shot on the location of Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow". Another great black and white conversion with plenty of detail, but the slightly awkard composition is crying out for a costumed model to be placed into the scene, you might have a bit of trouble getting Helena Bonham-Carter to pop by though!
	dak32 - Me on a bad day This shot is a real triumph of post processing, well at least we hope it is! User dak32 has certainly been watching his vampire horror and this terrifying creation is without a doubt the stuff of nightmares. It's not all photoshop wizardry though, the off centre composition and low key lighting have really given a perfect base image to work into. Let's just hope this character doesn't come trick-or-treating at our doors!