Each year in October I challenge myself to shoot something with a Halloween theme. Back in 2021 I took this one stage further and decided to shoot another story similar to what I had done earlier with the Dressmaker series. This is the story of Red and the Witch a modern interpretation of fairytales. It will be split over five posts as each used differing lighting techniques.

The story begins:

“Red was not the brightest girl in town and she had to habit of ignoring any type of warning that she was given. The main one was to not venture into the dark forest after dark and especially not around all hallows eve. Of course that is exactly what she did.“

I placed the casting cool on Facebook and Lexy was one of the ones who responded to it. In looking through the pictures it was obvious that she would play read.

We set up in the garage and she was lit using a 65cm round soft box with placed camera right. This insured that the light fell only on the model and did not spill into the background. The shorts were taken at f2.8 ISO 100 1/ 100s. The candlelight is real and was not advanced. They glass container that it was in dead cause a problem with reflection of the lights. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do about this other than toning it down.

The image was proceed through Nik software to increase the texture and boost saturation. You can see the original version below.

In the next instalment we meet the witch.