Wintertime cemetery photography - a great project some chilly quiet weekend.
Changing the photos to black and white is a fantastic way to pick up the bloodless landscape and show the stark reality of bare trees, dead grass, withered flowers, fluffy untouched snow.
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Some suggestions: Consider standing up high if you can and taking a photo of one single set of tracks through the snow.
Place dead flowers atop a grave and photograph, in Photoshop, lasso the flowers and black and white the rest of the picture so the dead flowers are the only color.
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Make a snow angel atop a row of headstones and shoot.
Consider making a life-sized snow ghost beside or behind a headstone.
Utilize any fallen dead limbs stacked up or laid artistically against a headstone.
When you are done, as always, remove all your photographic elements so that the cemetery can be left in beautiful peace as it was when you arrived. I always bring a plastic garbage bag and clean up. It's a nice way to appreciate the memorial park that it is.
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