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.
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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.
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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: 2070 Views during voting: 374 Votes: 124 Comments: 12 Favorites: 2 (view)
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 ... :)
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