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Two very special dinner guests at the studio...

  • By Max Garniss
  • 24 Oct, 2017

During past decades Halloween, has made its way across the pond and has well and truly blown up! Becoming a widely celebrated, nationwide.

Whether it be carving pumpkins, trick or treating, watching gory horror films, or in our case photographing skeletons at dinner,  Halloween is inherently and most importantly, a lot of fun.

All the way back in December 2016, yes I know it really doesn't feel that long ago does it, we had the pleasure of being asked to photograph some very particular room sets for our long term friends, and clients, Smiffys for the 2017 catalogue.
This time the whole shoot was based around the idea of two skeletons relaxing at home. Building and dressing our own room set with several props that are sold by Smiffys ranging from 2 large skeletons, to the table cloths, from the goblets, to the platters of brains (yuk). 
With two sets to build, decorate, light and shoot, time was against us in trying to make sure we could get everything done in a day. But with all our hands  on deck, and a LOT of coffee, we managed to get everything finished after a long days work & finished up with two fantastically spooky images. 
With some fine lighting and some tricky work in post production, we managed to really bring the products to life (pardon the pun) 

That combined with the great products from our clients, made for some spooky and special Halloween images. 

To find all of these products and many more products head over to https://www.smiffys.com

We hope you all have a wonderful Halloween, whatever you may be doing this year. I for one, will not be joining these two for dinner...

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