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They lurk in the shadows, but tonight we are the scary ones!
Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!
Galway, October 2023
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They lurk in the shadows, but tonight we are the scary ones!
Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!
Galway, October 2023
Night of the Wicked
Happy Halloween!
Macnas Parade, Galway, October 2017
So the Macnas Halloween Parade was great. We were right at the end of the route so we were waiting for a bit but it was worth it 😊 I'm going to attach some photos, hopefully they're not the worst. If any of ye are ever in Galway at Halloween, the Macnas Parade is a must see, they put on an amazing show 😍
In town for the Macnas Halloween Parade. It's a gorgeous but cold night. Really looking forward to this.🎃👻
“This Thunderous Heart”, the always-brilliant Macnas Parade was held on Sunday 22nd July as part of the Galway Arts Festival 2012.
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It was a horrible night, absolutely lashing down, but my girlfriend did a great job of holding our big umbrella up over the camera for the whole parade and even managed to keep it out of shot of my wide-angle lens (most of the time)!! I shot in 50fps and slowed everything down to 50% to get the nice slo-mo effect. The opening shot doesn’t have any effects whatsoever. It’s a guy walking down the street with a huge set of firecrackers going off over his head, but created the cool “man holding fire” effect when slowed down to 50%!!
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Apart from some grueling editing, post-production was all about the colour-grading. It was dusk, lighting was terrible and no matter what I did with the camera, everything was coming out washed-out and dull. It needed an injection of colour and life, so I upped a lot of reds and some greens in the shadows, a bit less in the midtones and a small bit of reds only in the highlights. It was my first ever attempt at colour-grading and I think it turned out pretty well. Especially compared to the original footage! Thankfully, there wasn’t need for any difficult image stabilisation, as the slow-motion solved any slight jerkiness of the camera. I was using a tripod anyways.
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The editing process took a while, but as soon as I found a piece of music that captured the atmosphere of the parade, it almost edited itself!! Except it didn’t… I did it.
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Music:
“spring_thaw” by The Green Kingdom
“Nacht en gan Eden” by Szelrozsa
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