When Lucy and I were discussing her shoot, she mentioned that she wanted to create a dark angel look.

Lucy had brought a black top and skirt but it was not really working. So I grabbed one of my wife’s old ball dresses and a set of small angel wings. The wings were intended to be a simple placeholder with the intention of replacing them in Photoshop later.

We reduced the amount of light on the set to a single light in a beauty dish. That would provide some punch to the image but also allow for a lot of shadow.

The images were all shot on my Lumix G9 at 1/200s f8 ISO 200 and with focal lengths ranging from 34mm to 60mm.

Once I had the image selected in Photoshop I added wings that I had downloaded as a transparent PNG. I had to warp them to make them fit completely and then adjust them to fit the lighting.

I was really happy with the way the image came out. Recently I tried to use the new Generative AI features in Photoshop to create the wings. I cannot say that this made the process easier as it took several attempts to get what I wanted. That image is shown below.