I appreciate your saying that this is what you have done in the past and no one is right or wrong. Husband and I always start all our workshops and seminars with "this is not the best way, this our way" That way we can all keep discovering.

That being said….:)

I would say that break your cardinal rule lighting everything. We do, but we make use of a significant variation of lights from white landscape lights, minimal flood lights, lightning and LED minispot lights, regular and bright (some with diffusers), strip LEDs, LED spotlights…some props get extra light, others get a lesser amount (or just lightning flashes), but I have a dark landscape and no light would yield the prop virtually unseen from the street…not in the creepy, "what is that creepy thing way?" – in the "I never saw that" kind of way.

Every year we learn new ways to present the scene, so lighting is a constantly changing part of the haunt.

As always, thanks again for your informative posts.

Cheers!

"Is that a mannequin? Is that a costumed actor? Is that my worst fear manifested on the lawn?"

Great recommendations, Grim.