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5 Halloween Photography Tips


10 February, 2021

5 Halloween Photography Tips

Halloween Photography Tips


Haloween costume design


Annual events offer plenty of awesome opportunities for interesting photos that will translate well onto canvas – and with the spooky season of Halloween almost upon us, we thought we’d share a few Halloween photography tips to help you capture the eerie atmosphere!

Photograph of kids dressed in their skeleton halloween costumes would be a great picture to print onto quality cheap canvas and display on your wall

Not just night for light


While it may feel more traditional to take all your shots under the cover of darkness, don’t miss the chance to catch the kids while they’re dressing up earlier in the day. This will give you some natural light to capture their excited faces (great for canvas print presents for the grandparents!) which is much better than harsh flash. This also allows you to arrange posed and ‘before and after’ shots to generally make sure you’re collecting some good images to choose from before excitement gets the better of them and tiredness eventually takes over.

If you insist on getting flashy...


If you need to use the flash later in the evening, here are a few tips to ensure the finished quality of your photos is good enough to print:

Buy or improvise a filter – red or orange would be perfect for Halloween photos. Use some coloured plastic/cellophane or a plastic beaker
Take several photos at different exposures to test what gives the best results
Turn the lights off or right down and use flash for some spooky red eye
Picture perfect pumpkins

Halloween photograph of carved pumkins would be such a cool photo to print onto affordable canvas to display in your home for halloween home decorations

After all that hard work carving your pumpkins, you want to make sure the pictures come out well. Candlelight can make it hard work to get the right light balance, so again, you’ll need to play around and test out different exposures. It’s also worth lighting several candles inside your lantern instead of just one – or alternatively, you can dress a baby or toddler up in a matching pumpkin outfit and simply take a daytime shop of them sat with your carving if you want an easier (but cute) option.

Lighting techniques


Set up a light source, such as a table lamp, below your subject for spooky Halloween effects – it’s a type of lighting rarely used and really adds some atmosphere to your ghosts and ghoul pictures. You can also play around with other lighting angles, such as side lighting, if you want to highlight features such as warty noses and knobbly scars.

Woman taking a picture of her halloween treats/baking that wouldlook great printed onto custom hand made canvas prints to show off her talent

Shoot up


Taking pictures of youngsters from your higher vantage point isn’t the best idea if you want to get really effective shots – it’s much better to get down low and shoot with the camera pointing up at them for the right perspective and an added bit of mystery and menace. 

Halloween is a fun time of year for all the family so snap away and catch them at their creepiest – if you’re taking pictures outside of the home though, do make sure you get permission from parents/carers beforehand.

Photograph of mother and daughter dressed up in their halloween costumes is a perfect memory to print onto canvas and even frame to display in your home.

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10 February, 2021

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