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There are few places spookier than the heart of a forest shrouded in the darkness of night — so it seemed like a good place to do some lowkey gravity defying. If I was slightly more sensible I’d have done it at dusk… setting up what became a quite complicated lighting setup in complete darkness was a pain. I ended up taping my torch to a gorilla pod and climbing a tree to give us enough light to work by.

I wanted to get a real feeling of emptiness in this shot so I opted for the lowkey look with a couple of trees for a sort of haunting framing.

I started out with just two lights, the key softbox at the front and the rim light at the rear, but I decided that a bit of light on the ground behind would help with the illusion. Finally I added a 580ex on the floor to the right to get rid of the shadow that was hiding it and add some detail in the hair. Let me know what you think.