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Challenge: Halloween Song Titles (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Location: Park/Indoors at Home/Garage
Date: Oct 17, 2010
Aperture: 16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Digital Art, Horror
Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2010

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Over 30 Layers to accomplish. I took over 90 photos over the span of the challenge week but only used 11 as source images for the composition. I have 1 1/4 pages of notes on the editing steps.

Not a fan of Alice Cooper but as soon as I saw the song title when doing a Google search on "Halloween Songs" I instantly thought of the Headless Horseman.

I hope this does well and others enjoy this maddening creation.

Source Pictures:


Other Interesting Notes:
I have two versions of the Headless Horseman: one with a head and the one without. The one with the pumpkin head will be posted in the Outtakes after rollover. The fog is from morphing the processed clouds from the main background. I used in several layers to build up the fog. My car's taillight was used for the horse's evil eye. The clouds and taillight are just an example taking everyday objects and turning them into something else. My thanks to my husband for posing in costume (the shirt with the bones is from a necromancer costume he wore several years back).

Update:

Alternate was:


For awhile during the voting it looked like this would be my 6th highest - last minute votes & rollover knocked it down to 7th.

Very happy that it was well received. Thank you all for the lovely compliments and the favorites.


Statistics
Place: 10 out of 45
Avg (all users): 6.5565
Avg (commenters): 8.6000
Avg (participants): 6.1200
Avg (non-participants): 6.6667
Views since voting: 1834
Views during voting: 374
Votes: 124
Comments: 12
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 11/01/2010 05:41:01 PM
Yep, this should have done better, absolutely perfect!
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 10/30/2010 10:57:43 PM
i loved this so much during the voting and it was one of the images that took my breath away .. how brilliant to get all the elements that went into this amazing and creative piece .. reckon this should've ribboned for sure ... :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/30/2010 05:16:04 AM
Congrats! This is an amazing picture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/28/2010 11:48:22 PM
Fabulous work. This challenge was filled with amazing entries.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/28/2010 08:09:18 PM
Thought this would do better....nice Job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/28/2010 05:44:33 PM
One of the few I gave a 10 to. I'm not sure i'm understanding it right, but it's so cool, it should be a poster or something.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/27/2010 10:10:28 PM
nice work. great sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/26/2010 07:22:17 AM
very nice job! 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/25/2010 06:36:26 PM
Wow! Magical. Great job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/25/2010 12:59:23 PM
Back to comment...

Impressive artwork!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/22/2010 04:16:44 AM
fantastic!! Wonderfully done! -9-
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 10/21/2010 08:31:12 PM
Love it. Wonderful moody background.
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