TOLAROIDS: The Spooky Contest Results!

Last week you voted for the spookiest photo of the spooky season, and as promised I will go over the winning photograph, the context, editing, general information, etc.

#1 A spooky encounter

As of today, 36.36% voted for this photo as the spookiest!

Background

I was walking through the Arb for the first time, trying to get fall-themed photos. It was probably around mid-October and I just walked into what I believed is called the Praire part of the Arboretum. That’s when I saw this guy right here!

Settings

Camera: Nikon D750, lens 18-200mm

• Exposure time: 1/100s
• ISO 800,
• f/5.6

Editing

I decided to go quite simple with editing, I really like the colors so I pretty much didn’t touch them except for some slight color saturation for green. For the “spooky” touch I added vignetting and higher contrast

• Exposure: +0.80
• Contrast: +40
• Highlights: -30
• Shadows: +9
• Post-crop vignetting: -18
• Temperature: 5,447
• Texture: +5
• Clarity: +5
• Green Saturation: +8

And here you can see the before & after:

tool: Juxtapose by NU Night Lab

If you have any questions or comments you can catch me here or at @akilian.jpg on Instagram! See you next week!