Show us your Pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns

Yes folks, it's that time of year.
Show how creative your are without a camera in your hands.
Either you, or your kids have carved some pumpkins, and you have some photos of them somewhere.
Dig them out, and share them here.
Yes, I'll start.

Here is my pumpkin from 2002.

I haven't carve a pumpkin in over 7 years, maybe more and they never looked as as good as yours.

nice pumpkin carving skills

Thanks folks.

This year may be "The Grim Reaper". We shall see.

You should do a youtube video showing your technique.

Really excellent work there. Well done.

dkord wrote in post #6562131
You should do a youtube video showing your technique.

Unfortunately, someone else already capitalized on that. It's their idea that I'm using.
You can check it out Here

I buy new patterns all the time. Try to keep it fresh instead of doing the same old design every year (like I did with the Witches Brew).

If you hadn't posted this, I was going to. My favorite time of year, though perhaps five pumpkins is overkill...

emomophantom wrote in post #6566172
If you hadn't posted this, I was going to. My favorite time of year, though perhaps five pumpkins is overkill...

Is that Evil Emperor Zurg from Toy Story? That's Great!

As for the five pumpkins, I'll probably be right in there again this year.
We grew some pumpkins this year. They are okay sized, but not what I need for my carvings. So I bought a big one.
Now we have five pumpkins again.

A few years ago -

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Questions.how does one take a good photo of a pumpkin in the dark while it's lit? I canot seem to do it:o

Flo wrote in post #6587239
Questions.how does one take a good photo of a pumpkin in the dark while it's lit? I canot seem to do it:o

well make sure your focus is on the candle light if you can see it and then use a semi high iso speed like 800-1600 in tv mode.

For the images I posted,
The two photos from 2006 were shot at 1/5 of a second at f/5.6 on ISO 200
The one from 2007 was 1/15 f/5.6 ISO 200
The group shot from 2005 was with my Powershot G2. ISO 400 1/10 shutter speed and f/2.2
Closeup of the witches brew was ISO 400 Shutter 1/25 f/2.5
Pumpkin from 2002 also shot with my G2. ISO 50 Shutter 1/5 Aperture 2.2

All shot using a tripod. As for focus, I focus on the pumpkin itself and not the candle.
I found that if I focus on the candle at that wide open of an aperture, your pumpkin has a good chance of being out of focus.

Killjoy wrote in post #6588624
For the images I posted,
The two photos from 2006 were shot at 1/5 of a second at f/5.6 on ISO 200
The one from 2007 was 1/15 f/5.6 ISO 200
The group shot from 2005 was with my Powershot G2. ISO 400 1/10 shutter speed and f/2.2
Closeup of the witches brew was ISO 400 Shutter 1/25 f/2.5
Pumpkin from 2002 also shot with my G2. ISO 50 Shutter 1/5 Aperture 2.2

All shot using a tripod. As for focus, I focus on the pumpkin itself and not the candle.
I found that if I focus on the candle at that wide open of an aperture, your pumpkin has a good chance of being out of focus.

I just hand held my SXI 800-1600 on tv mode f5,6 and used a tamron 17-55 which is a good low light situation lens.