Fear Faire:reviews and photos anyone??

Hello all:

I am planning on going to halloweekends next friday (10/20) and i was wondering if fear faire is good or not? Anyways, i would appreciate pics please or a review.

thank you:)

Or, you could always wait until you get there and see for yourself.

Then again, you wouldn't have an opportunity to tell everyone that you're going to CP if you did it that way.

It becomes virtually impossible to shoot anything decent in Fear Faire (or CarnEvil, Fright Zone, or Werewolf Canyon for that matter), due to the amount of fog they use. They only things that'd come out decent are those that are taken for media purposes, in which case they use minimal, if any fog.

That being said, here are a few, but I don't think they're what you're looking for...
http://www.pointpixels.com/4images/categories.php?cat_id=387

How long was the exposure on those? You got some pretty decent detail on the scenery, just not so much on the people in front.

And what's the Halloweekends "atmosphere" in this picture? Just looks like the BS station. (I'm just trying to find out if I'm missing something)

*** Edited 10/11/2006 8:31:59 PM UTC by JuggaLotus***

They averaged between 1 and 1.8 seconds. With shots like those, I kind of like the exposure blur, and try to avoid having to use a high iso.

Um, it's pretty much just a general shot, but because it has the corn stalks and hay, I put it in the atmosphere section... :)

I didn't see any cornstalks and hay (must be hiding in the shadows) so that's why I was wondering what you were trying to "highlight" with the photo. I do love that Raptor night shot you have though. I always like the way that ride looks at night.

DBCP said:They only things that'd come out decent are those that are taken for media purposes, in which case they use minimal, if any fog.

Actually, the fog is not decreased or turned off for photo shots. They just come out and do it right on the midway with the park open. They don’t change or alter anything in the zones for media.

I meant media as in for promotional use... as in these shots:
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/fun/photo/index.cfm?id=pg_halloweekends

There certainly is less fog there than what is normally used.

Those pictures (at least the Fright Zone ones) are at least 3 years old, but as far as I can tell they were taken under normal conditions. 99er is right, they've never shut off or reduced the fog for the purpose of taking pictures. I've seen plenty of really good pictures taken with your average, low end digital and film cameras. If you check out the picture in my profile, that was taken last Saturday with a lower end Cannon digital camera under the heaviest fog conditions yet this year.

Those are the photos I was talking about DB. If it looks like less fog is used, then the picture was taken away from foggers. I only know this because I was there when most of those pictures were taken. Dan just followed a group through the zones taking their pictures where ever they went.

Even the video you see in most of the commercials were shot the same way. The crew would just walk through taping Screamsters as if the cameraman was a guest.

*** Edited 10/11/2006 10:24:36 PM UTC by 99er***

Since you guys are talking about pictures and what not I'll go ahead and give ttdwtmf a review.
First off, I'm a hard person to scare so haunted attractions (except for good ones) don’t really thrill me. WWC wasn’t much since we caught up to the group ahead of us.....thus we could tell where there were screamsters. Fright Zone wasn’t much either since all the fog was being blown south allowing you to see and anticipate the screamsters. Though I must admit that all the fog from Fright Zone was rolling by Millenniums overbank and created for an awesome effect of piercing the fog, emerging from it, and then plummeting into it again.
Fear Fair, on the other hand was a fun experience. The music and odd arraignment of things in the Point Pavilion created a cool atmosphere. They could have done a bit more in the "market" section but other than that it was neat. The screamsters were well costumed and had some very nice masks.

And Fear Fair was the only attraction that I actually got jumped by a screamster.:)

All in all I give it a 7 out of 10.

Glad to hear you liked it.

Okay, maybe it wouldn't make as big of a difference as I would have thought for the close-up shots, but over a distance it certainly still does. I wasn't really implying that they took it all away, just that in the photos it seems like there isn't as much, although apparently it's the same. It was just that some of them look like there's nothing at all....

Well, maybe I'll go adventuring with a speedlight this weekend.... :) It seemed like it would be a complete waste if I were shooting over any significant distance.

Can anyone offer me help with night time photography? Mine are always very blurry or the illuminated object doesn't show up well. They usually look something like the ones below. I got a new Konica Minolta Dimage e500 camera so I hope my night pictures turn out better with it. Any tips would be excellent. Thanks.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/21/cpoct22084px7.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7811/cpjuly06132av7.jpg

*** Edited 10/12/2006 1:51:26 AM UTC by Vince982***

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http://www.emtcompany.com/products/tr023.htm?gclid=CJCzmqa28ocCFTrAJAodGDIJ6A

Trashcans, fence posts and concrete ledges become instant and stable platforms so you can steady your night shots. Of course, there's a bunch of other things you can do so you won't need a tripod at all, or at least not much, but I don't know how advanced your camera's settings can get.

-Josh

Do you have a point and shoot? I would use a night setting that doesn't use a flash, if you have one, but the key is a tripod. You'll be using an extended exposure, so you won't be able to keep the camera still enough to take the picture, which is why it turns out blurry.

I'll try that out. I just bought one on ebay for $10. Hopefully it helps. It is point and shoot and does have a night mode. I'll try those tips out and hope for the best. Thanks guys!
*** Edited 10/12/2006 1:58:47 AM UTC by Vince982***

Good luck using that with your new DSLR, Josh... :)

Here's an old thread about this very topic, in fact Vince, it was one you started... :)
http://www.pointbuzz.com/cpplace.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=17502

Ha! I thought I had asked that question before.

But yeah a tripod is key... There's no way I would have been able to keep my camera still for a 30 second shutter speed, on photos like this...
http://www.pointpixels.com/4images/details.php?image_id=9797

*** Edited 10/12/2006 2:50:34 AM UTC by DBCP***