Weekend Task #40 - Creepy

[Levina de Ruijter]

I think this one has more creepy feel than the photo you submitted

Yeah? I always have a hard time choosing a pic. I just thought IQ of this one was too bad. On top of that, as a small webcam pic it needed upscaling. Although I must say it worked better than expected, but then with bad IQ maybe you don’t notice it when it gets a bit worse. It was a fun theme.

 

[greatgrandma]

My photo was (as you could probably tell) a heavily edited version of a scarecrow type figure. - on the right the original photo

Jack Pumpkinhead was a person in the Oa books - not the original Wizard of Ox, but one of the later ones. They were my favorite books as a child. This was the only photo I considered for this challenge.

I thought agreed with Levina that the tree photo was the best although Rob's clown was also creepy and I really really liked StephenM's picture too.

 

[StephenM]

Sometimes "bad" IQ is needed to get a point across. Sixty years ago, I read something I've never forgotten. The author of the book described an exhibition he'd attended, and one particular photograph that struck him as being bad. Dull, grey, no real subject, no redeeming features. About to move on, he was struck by a thought. What if the photo was intended to express boredom? In which case, the photographer had succeeded, not failed.

I've always tried to remember that, and look at photographs with a view to understanding what the photographer intended - especially when on technical or compositional grounds it failed. On another forum (now long closed) there was a photograph of a ship, sloping horizon, strong colour cast etc. Others suggested the obvious corrections; I saw a story that the image was telling that depended on those "defects".

In WET 38, I posted an out of focus photograph from a photographic holiday. Technically terrible, but my favourite from a week that included other black and white images more akin to ones I've already posted here. It expressed, to me anyway, the mood of a week that was mainly very wet indeed.

 

[RDWP]

Confined

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I really liked this one too - could have been a promo for Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I really liked this one too - could have been a promo for Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman!

Thanks! For a challenge on POTN, theme was “Confined”. It was fun making it but a LOT of work, all with the self timer and kinda guessing where I had to be and how much I could move. And I still cut off my right hand some.

 

[Jan1977]

Yeah? I always have a hard time choosing a pic. I just thought IQ of this one was too bad. On top of that, as a small webcam pic it needed upscaling. Although I must say it worked better than expected, but then with bad IQ maybe you don’t notice it when it gets a bit worse. It was a fun theme.

Maybe a bit poorer image quality makes it more 'creepy' since perfection doesn't necessarily suits a creepy image

 

[Jan1977]

My photo was (as you could probably tell) a heavily edited version of a scarecrow type figure. - on the right the original photoView attachment 63784Jack Pumpkinhead was a person in the Oa books - not the original Wizard of Ox, but one of the later ones. They were my favorite books as a child. This was the only photo I considered for this challenge.

I thought agreed with Levina that the tree photo was the best although Rob's clown was also creepy and I really really liked StephenM's picture too.

Actually, I did not think of your photo as being heavily edited, my guess would have been that it was some neon lighting Halloween decoration or something alike

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Finally got time to comment. I really liked GG's picture, and never thought about it being enhanced. Just figgered it was as is.
If the topic had been "intimidation" Jan's photo would've have won hands down. Just didn't see it as creepy.
Jeff's was a very good Jack o Lantern picture.
Dave surely had a creepy photo. If I walked into a funeral home and saw that, I'd probably leave real quick.
RDWP's clown was really creepy. I'm not sure when clowns started getting such a bad rep, but seems no one likes clowns anymore. A few years ago there were some prank videos on youtube where someone dressed as a clown and was chasing people with a big wooden sledge hammer. There's a reason those videos were not made in Oklahoma or Texas.
MMP's skeletons on the tree were creepy enough.
Levina's fit the bill for creepy easily enough.
BTW, my tree photo is a tree at Lake Overholser in Oklahoma City. I thought it should be in movies.
I like Stephen's photo, but to me it is more homey than creepy.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

BTW, my tree photo is a tree at Lake Overholser in Oklahoma City. I thought it should be in movies.

That was my very first thought, that it would be great in a scary movie!