I was out at the weekend, refining a photo shoot I had done previously. My darling little Niece, got a set of fairy wings at Christmas along with a wand, (I wonder who bought her those?) and I thought that would be a great concept for my revised graveyard shoot at sunset. Off we went on a freezing January evening, me all wrapped up in a warm coat, Tia bless her, was only in a lightweight dress armed with her fairy wings and wand! (we did have a big coat for her as well, I’m not that cruel!, but it came off for the shoot.). The intention was to utilise off camera flash and turn day into night by overpowering the daylight with flash with my little fairy highlighted in the graveyard, surrounded by silhouettes. The results were spectacular, or so I thought anyway. Here is a shot I took and subsequently entered into the SWPP monthly image competition, I got a B (Bronze) for it, which I was pleased with as it’s much better than getting a U (unclassified)! I took several other angles but this is one of my favourites.
After the graveyard experience and once she thawed out, we did a few studio shots. This image was achieved by placing the studio flash directly over head with a honeycomb grid on it to prevent the spill of light on to the black background and metered for the face. When taking the shot, it was a case of getting her to look directly towards the light and get the wand to just fall within the light path but not create a shadow on the face. It took a few attempts to get all the pieces correct! Post production, I just extended the canvas above to give more negative black space. This image got me a Silver award, so I am really pleased.
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