Last night I ventured out to the Orphanage at Foster Falls in New River Trail State Park.

Foster Falls OrphanageNight images of the Orphanage at Foster Falls. A big moon lit up my scene, but wasn't big enough to drown out all the stars.  I wasn't here long, but I tried to get a little creative with making ghostly figures in front of the orphanage.

Foster Falls OrphanageNight images of the Orphanage at Foster Falls. Foster Falls OrphanageNight images of the Orphanage at Foster Falls. For the above two photos, I would stand or sit in position for about half of the 15 second exposure.  Making sure I was in the moonlight with a darker area behind me helps my transparent figure 'pop' a bit, but not too much.

For the below photo, I stood in place for one exposure and let my shadow be captured on the wall on the left(a light from nearby in Foster Falls light me up).  I then took a separate exposure without me in it, and simply blended the shadow from the previous image into the 2nd exposure.

Foster Falls OrphanageNight images of the Orphanage at Foster Falls. I'm not really the creative type and honestly can't say what I'd ever do with these images from a marketing standpoint but sometimes it's fun just to screw around!

Thanks for looking.