Showing posts with label vampires. Show all posts
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Friday, October 21, 2011

13 Days of Halloween: Day Three


We've got monsters on the brain. Big time. All the time. We also have a year round craving for everything and anything antiqued, cobwebbed, and creepy. So, even though this photo shoot was done in the summertime, we thought now would be a good time to broadcast it here.

Back home, one of our mothers has the ultimate creepy garage, complete with an accumulation of spider webs that have taken our eight legged friends years, maybe decades, to produce.The light is dim, and the surroundings are altogether dingy. It didn't take much alteration to turn it into a Victorian scientist's laboratory (Luh-bore- uh-tor-ee, not Lab-ruh-tory).

We simply added candelabras, dried flowers, yards of wispy tulle, and a few spell books to complete the scene. In this shoot, a scientist with a taste for the occult studies his subjects: a new bitten vampire and a lady werewolf. Costumes were sourced from our own wardrobes and from our friend's closets (which, luckily, included exactly what was needed). With the makeup, we tried to create implications of the monsters rather than full-on B-movie special effects. We are in love with the results of this photo shoot. The lighting, the set, the costumes, and make-up all came together exactly as we had envisioned. Can you guess the storyline from these photos?