Mickie Devries lives in West Michigan close to Lake Michigan shoreline. Devries focuses on documenting her own children, as she believes ‘to be a child is a magical thing’. She is inspired by children and how they grow and learn new things. She likes to photograph these moments as she wants to preserve and document them. However I am going to focus on a small project she done within her photography where she has created ghost-like images using various camera settings.

I am mainly going to take inspiration from Mickie Devries from the way that she achieves her ghostly looking photos within this small project of hers. I also like how the images look in black and white and I may also use that idea within my photography.

How to create ghostly photos:

1 – First you I will need to use a tripod, this is so that the photo is clear as I will be using a slow shutter speed of around 15 seconds, this is what Mickie Devries uses to create her images. She also states it is best to take these images in low ambient light.

2 – Next I will adjust my aperture to around f/8 as this is the same setting as Devries.

3 – Focus is then switched to manual with the subject in the frame, this is so that I am able to focus on the subject when I end up taking the photos.

4 – Next I will remove my subject from the frame and have my subject walk slowly into the position once I’ve pushed pushed the shutter button. Once the subject is in the position I will press the shutter button and have them freeze.