Halloween is coming.  Some great opportunities to test your skills at low light photography, and quick moving kids.  As with any photos, know your camera.  If you are going to use flash, you need to be familiar with the range of the flash.  If you are too far away from your subjects, they are not going to be lit well.  And of course there is the red eye problem.  Use camera settings that don’t require as much light, such as a high ISO setting, and a large aperture so that the scene is lit by the natural light more, and the flash doesn’t have to do as much of the work.  If your camera works well in low light, now is the time to utilize that capability.  I’ve found some great articles on the subject to give you some ideas.  For more inspiration, you can always go over to flickr.com and 500px.com and browse what has been tagged Halloween on those sites.

Digital Photography School posted a great article with a number of great tips.  From Flash, to low light shooting, and subject selection.  And a number of great photos for inspiration.  Check this article out for some great ideas.

Over at Lifepics.com I found a couple more tips for photographing costumes and jack-o-lanterns.

And a couple more interesting tips at Olympus.com.  One take-away from this site is on perspective. Get down to the level of the kids you are photographing.