Towards the end of our shoot day we had a little fun with some corsets that Rachel had also brought. We stripped out the outer lace layer from her skirt and positioned her

For the lighting we reverted back to the setup used earlier. The main light was a Godox AD600 in a 1.5m octabox positioned at 90° to Rachel. The light was covered with a grid so that I could control the direction of it. This lighting positioned closely resembled the angle that the sun had been when the birds were photographed.

Although the image below shows it as a square was actually octagonal. On the opposite side to the main light I positioned a white polystyrene reflector to provide fill. At the rear of the studio I had an Elinchrom D400 firing into the 7 foot umbrella covered with diffusion. This was solely to fill-in the shadows. While Elinchrom and Godox lights operate on different triggers, I could use the optical slave on the Elinchrom and this worked really well.

As we had a pile of leaves available she decided to have a bit of fun with them . Firstly throwing them in the air. This proved harder than it would appear as you needed to time the shutter to the throw while trying to not have too many leaves cover Rachels’ face.

Then she decided to get covered with them. I tilted the main lignt slight down for these images.

This part of the shoot gave us another set of usable images completely different to anything else that we had shot that day.

For those that like the technical aspects the images were shot with my Nikon D600 1/200s f7.1 ISO200 using a 50mm prime lens.