Halloween
Paul Archer

Halloween

November 2023

Expert
winner

Lovely expression and lighting. The eyes and slight tilt of the head gives the child a sad, lost and hopeless look. The blood and black eyes then enhance this to really bring the image to 'life'. Great choice making it black and white and nice toning. Not over worked. Just right. well done

Nice use of long exposure and off camera flashes. You have combined it all together in camera really well without relying on photoshop which is great - something I am a big believer in! I would have liked to have seen a little more of the background to the left of the frame (instead of just black) as it would probably have added an extra depth to the image. Definitely the best from the series that you submitted. Well done

This was definitely my favourite from the series of pictures you submitted because the ghostly movement has kept the shape of the figure just enough which I felt was important for the picture to work. Too much blur and you loose the 'figure' shape. It might have been nice to try and add some atmosphere to the back ground somehow. Maybe if it had been a sunny day and you had some sunshine streaming through the trees with some light smoke or taken at dusk so the woods looked more moody?

723 Images entered

262 Photographers

Brief

See more contest details

**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 251 and 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** Time to dust off your skeleton suit, creatively attack a pumpkin, and pretend that you’re not at home when the doorbell starts ringing. It’s halloween! Our spookiest contest of the year, and the one that does the greatest reputational damage to spiders.

Meet the expert judge