"NIGHT" SHOTS AT NIGHT Part 4

This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of photos showing the cemetery from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as it is today in Evans City, PA....just in the middle of the night. This was the idea of my buddy Daz Spooky and I have to give him all the credit for this idea and showing me how to take these fantastic photos. Through long exposure settings and the use of a tripod, you can see and photograph the cemetery at night. In fact the longer the exposure, the more it looks like daytime. It's weird and interesting, I hope you like what you see. No photographs have been altered in any way. These are the shots exactly as the camera captured them.

Here we start with the spot in front of the chapel where Johnny and Barbra drive to and park their car. Each photo was taken between 2am and 4 am September 2, 2013.

This first photo has the longest exposure making it seem like daylight on an overcast day. Shorter exposures come out slightly darker.

I decided to take a pic of myself there. Again, since these photos are taken with long exposure times, I have to sit there motionless for up to 30 seconds while the camera absorbs all the ambient light and the image. If I move, I will become blurry, so I have to remain completely still.

Here we have a view of the chapel from the road in front of it, you can pretty much see this view in the movie as Johnny and Barbra walk up to their father's grave site. Longest to shortest exposure times are shown.

This should be familiar to everyone. This the stone which Barbra cowers beside while her brother Johnny wrestles with the cemetery zombie. Longest to shortest exposures are shown.

Outside the cemetery we have this entrance seen here in the film. At the beginning, we see Johnny and Barbra's car enter this driveway. The first photo is of the light captured from my brake light on my car illuminating the spot with a slightly longer than average exposure.

 

Here is a slightly long exposure and a car had drove by with it's headlights on causing light streaks and almost too much light to be present.

  The exposure here is very short, but you can still see a bit.

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"NIGHT" SHOTS AT NIGHT Part 3

This is Part 3 of a multi-part series of photos showing the cemetery from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as it is today in Evans City, PA....just in the middle of the night. This was the idea of my buddy Daz Spooky and I have to give him all the credit for this idea and showing me how to take these fantastic photos. Through long exposure settings and the use of a tripod, you can see and photograph the cemetery at night. In fact the longer the exposure, the more it looks like daytime. It's weird and interesting, I hope you like what you see. No photographs have been altered in any way. These are the shots exactly as the camera captured them.

Here we start with the grave site of Johnny and Barbra's father. They visit with him here and leave a cross with flowers on it for him. Each photo was taken between 2am and 4 am September 2, 2013.

This first photo has a headlight shining on the scene with a slightly long exposure. This is where I find my focus for the shots with no light.

I wanted to get into a few of these photos, so I positioned myself and had to stand still for twenty or thirty seconds otherwise I would be blurry in the photo. The long exposures would blur any movement. I then set a timer or use a remote control to activate the camera when I was ready. Remember these are taken in pitch black dead of night.

Here we have a series of shots showing the cemetery ghoul played by Bill Hinzman walking among the tombstones, You can match many stones in the shots from the movie to the photos I took on this night. I did not get exact angles for these unfortunately, please excuse me, I was going off of memory and not looking at anything for reference. 

Here we have the cemetery ghoul about to attack Barbra. Again, you can match many tombstones in each shot.

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"NIGHT" SHOTS AT NIGHT Part 2

     This is Part 2 of a multi-part series of photos showing the cemetery from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as it is today in Evans City, PA....just in the middle of the night. This was the idea of my buddy Daz Spooky and I have to give him all the credit for this idea and showing me how to take these fantastic photos. Through long exposure settings and the use of a tripod, you can see and photograph the cemetery at night. In fact the longer the exposure, the more it looks like daytime. It's weird and interesting, I hope you like what you see. No photographs have been altered in any way. These are the shots exactly as the camera captured them.

We will start with a few shots of a main driveway through the cemetery. You can see this as the second shot in the film inside the cemetery and the car with the two lead characters drives through the frame from the left to the right and drives away from the camera on the right side with a slight pan right of frame. Each photo was taken between 2am and 4 am September 2, 2013.

This first photo has a headlight shining on the scene with a slightly long exposure. This is where I find my focus for the shots with no light.

This is the shot as you see it in the film.

  

As you can see. The longer the exposure. The more ambient light gets photographed. That light would be moonlight in all probability. 

This one almost looks like dusk or early morning, but it is pitch black.

The car passes through the frame and leaves it on the right side.  

Different shots with longer and longer exposures on the same spot.

Again, this is in the middle of the night. but with a longer exposure, it almost looks like daytime.

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"NIGHT" SHOTS AT NIGHT Part 1

     This is Part 1 of a multi-part series of photos showing the cemetery from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as it is today in Evans City, PA....just in the middle of the night. This was the idea of my buddy Daz Spooky and I have to give him all the credit for this idea and showing me how to take these fantastic photos. Through long exposure settings and the use of a tripod, you can see and photograph the cemetery at night. In fact the longer the exposure, the more it looks like daytime. It's weird and interesting, I hope you like what you see.  No photographs have been altered in any way. These are the shots exactly as the camera captured them.

We will start with a few shots of a main driveway through the cemetery. You can see this as the first shot in the film inside the cemetery and the car with the two lead characters pulls into frame from the right side and drives away from the camera into the center of the frame. Each photo was taken between 2am and 4 am September 2, 2013. 

We start with photos with the headlights from my car shining in the road. This is where I find my focus for the shots with no light.

Here is the shot form the movie with the car entering the right side of the frame.

Here is another shot from the movie with the car continuing on the road away from the camera.

The following shots are taken with varying exposure times and as you can see the results are stunning.

This shot in particular looks like it was taken in broad daylight, on an overcast day. It's not, it's complete darkness in the middle of the night. 

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