Spooktacular Tips For Your Halloween Photos

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It’s that time of year, you are at the grocery store or your favorite craft or department store, and are surrounded by hanging spider webs, pumpkins and rows of Halloween costumes just waiting for a child to slip on and head down the candy collecting road.

If you are a parent of one of those candy collectors, Halloween season and Halloween night can get a little crazy. When all’s said and done, you might not even have any pictures to prove how cute your little goul or goblin was trick-or-treating.  Or that perfectly porportioned pumpkin the family spent hours carving.

By planning ahead with these spooktacular tips, you’re sure to have memories that will last longer than the halloween candy.

Spooktacular tip #1

Before & After

Taking before and after pictures of your kids and/or their proud pumpkins

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Spooktacular tip #2

Show their size!

Kids grow up so fast, photograph them year after year in the same spot, or just with a prop to show their size.

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Spooktacular tip #3

Turn off the lights!

For carved pumpkins, add a glow stick or tea light. Turn off the lights, turn off your camera flash and  BOOM!  Instant AWESOME halloween picture.

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Spooktacular tip #4

Details, details, details!

Capture the details of the costumes, pumpkin carving or how much candy they filled in their bags. Either way, the details are sometimes the first things we forget, capture it and fill that photo memory bank.

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Spooktacular tip #4

Get creative!

Have fun and shoot through a spider web, or add fog with a fog machine.  Photograph their smiles and laughter or get some action shots of them just being a kid on Halloween.

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Now that you have all these spooktacular Halloween photos, don’t forget to organize them in your yearly folders, or print them out for your albums.  If you missed our post about  Organize A Years Worth Of  Digital Photos Like A Pro, make sure you check it out.

Happy Shooting and Happy Halloween!

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Malia
Malia is a wife, mom of three pretty amazing kids, an addict to anything sweet and the owner of Malia B Photography. She is a sucker for emotion, creativity and being unique. After being an elementary school teacher for 6 years, she decided to close the teaching books and open her passion and shutterbug skills to photographing newborns, children and expecting parents. She hasn’t looked back since and now gets to spend her days capturing the greatness in babies and children, along with helping educate parents and photographers on how to capture theirs in photographs. When she is not behind the camera, she is cooking with her kids, pruning her garden or designing custom photography props.

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