Study of zombie table manners. She needs a napkin, but doesn’t appear to care. (Daniel J. Schneider)
On Saturday, October 23, 2010, the Denver Zombie Crawl attracted more than 7,300 people and broke its own 2009 record for attendance, solidifying Denver once more as the most zombified city in the U.S.
Photos were taken on a Canon 30D, 135mm at f/2.0, ISO-100. Post processing for the photo above went beyond the usual saturation and white balance correction, including fairly major hue changes, de-saturation and texture adjustments. For the photo below, slight saturation and white balance adjustments only.
Try as he might, this poor wretch couldn’t straighten his glasses. I doubt if they would’ve helped much if he succeeded. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Early in the afternoon zombies began streaming into Skyline Park. (Daniel J. Schneider)
A zombie. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Umbrella Corporation agents arrived to fight the zombie menace. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Umbrella Corporation agent surveying the carnage. (Daniel J. Schneider)
A better zombie. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Umbrella Corporation agents arrived to fight the zombie menace. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Umbrella Corporation agents arrived to fight the zombie menace. (Daniel J. Schneider)
A cyclist risen from the dead. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Zombies shamble in Skyline Park. (Daniel J. Schneider)
A young zombie. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Someone has given this zombie a brain he can’t quite get in his mouth. Quite entertaining. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Another Umbrella Corporation agent. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Even the sweetest children are rising from the dead. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Ouch. (Daniel J. Schneider)
This zombie seems all alone in the world. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Another of the risen children. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Happiest zombie I saw all day. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Zombie Michael Jackson preparing to lead the Thriller dance. (Daniel J. Schneider)
A creation from Shane Acker’s “9” film. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Young zombies seem to move faster than those further decayed. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Hungry zombies coming fast. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Young zombie three. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Even in undeath, some ties still bind. (Daniel J. Schneider)
This young man was eaten alive on a street corner. (Daniel J. Schneider)
This sock monkey is afflicted by whatever supernatural power seems to be turning everything into slaves of flesh-craving undeath. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Not far away, another young man was brought down hard by the frontrunners of a pack of zombies that would devour him in mere moments. (Daniel J. Schneider)
Zombified anthropomorphized cartoon rodents made real by some weird science are the least of our worries. (Daniel J. Schneider)
These were all taken on the Canon 30d with the 135mm at f/2.0 or f/2.8, the 50mm at f/1.4 or f/2.0, and one or two might have been with a 20mm at f/2.8. Photoshop work included white balance and saturation, and not much else.