Psychedelicized !

Photography by David Robert Crews

There has been no digital jiggery-pokery used in any of these photographs.

I used an older Canon film camera for this series of photos and did all of the special effects work with that camera. What I did for most of that wild and crazy, helluva' lotta' fun Halloween Night in Baltimore, Maryland's Fells Point Neighborhood business area was I shot most of the photos with the camera's shutter speed set on one second, not 1/60th of second as is normal for that older style camera; and I used a single strobe flash with the camera's aperture set at what was suggested by the flash's aperture guide. I sorta' just "let the whole thing roll" and had it figured right when I believed that this technique would capture the steady ebb and flow of the massive crowd by showing them flowing in the ambient light (street lights, etc.) while a bright blast of light from the flash froze parts of each scene being photographed. It worked about just like I had thought it could.

And I am fukin-aye-right, mighty-well pleased with the results.

In fact.

I declare this to be the absolute best set of Halloween photographs ever produced -- they definitely are for the traditional adult oriented Fells Point Halloween happenings.

If you know of any better Halloween photos anywhere, please let me know about them, because I would most certainly enjoy seeing them too.