Here Come The Halloween Zombies – Photoshoot With Lighting Diagram

I love zombies and wanted to commemorate them in a holiday e-card I created to send to my client mailing list. I did this a couple of years back, but never really promoted on other sites until now. I called on some friends for props, extras, zombie makeup, and styling. My total expense was probably around $150-200 to pay for zombie clothing and rent a big industrial fog machine. I used 4 lights, including one behind the fog machine to create that great glow.

I like how the light behind the fog machine also cast a great shadow from the stairs on the wall behind the male human subject on the far right (It was an accident at first until I saw it in my first test shots). Lighting was essentially simple, it was just a matter of using barn doors and grids to control where the light fell so that it made my subjects pop out and the environment remain reasonably dark and spooky.

Zombie Makeup: Kwame Head

Clothing Stylist: Tara Papanicolas

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Rough lighting diagram. The softbox on the right served as catch light for the back of the victims and fill for the zombies. 2 strobes with narrow barn doors were used to light the victims and the zombies