This is the second instalment in my 2021 Halloween Themed editorial.

The story continues:

“Deep in the forest the witch begins rituals for All Hallows Eve brewing up a strong potion and hoping that a suitable victim for her planned sacrifice will come along.”

In my original planning for the shoot I wanted to have three witches reminiscent of the scene in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Unfortunately I was not able to achieve that and Sian was the only one who was available. We had shot together before so I knew that she could bring the character to life. I constructed a mini see it in the back of our section and made her witches broom.

Please note that most of images shown on this page are outtakes that were not used so they have not been processed. with shoots like this you do end up with a lot of images that you will not use especially those when you were trying to achieve particular lighting look.

I used a single Godox speedlight is a small square soft box positioned camera right to illuminate Sian. A lume cube was placed inside the cauldron with a green gel to cast light from below. Halloween is one of the few occasions where you can get away with lighting a subject from below.

The settings on the camera did not change from the first shoot namely 1/100s f2.8 ISO100.

As the series was in intended for Instagram in post I cropped it down to a portrait orientation, darken down the background and then added a glow emanating from the cauldron using a mist brush that I had downloaded. I also applied a Moonlight Colour Look Up (LUT) which is one of the LUT’s that comes standard in Photoshop.

In the next episode Red meets the Witch.