Thumbelina.

usuqa has added a photo to the pool:

This shot was taken for a competition running on one of the sites I visit often.. they wanted a photo from a book or part of a book so I decided to shoot one based on Thumbelina.

The good thing about this is that my step-daughter also gets a nice shot of her being a fairy.. and what little girl wouldn’t want that?

I used three images for this shot, the forest background was taken while in Ireland a few year ago.. while the mushroom’s and my step-daughter were shot in my loft studio.The mushrooms were sitting in a shallow baking tray filled with water and the smoke came from incense sticks were I captures the smoke into a cold glass (just out the freezer) so that the smoke would fall down due to being colder than the room.

I hope you all enjoy.



*Lighting*

One soft-box’s at the front right, a strobe at the back left shooting some card on the back Left (to act as another softbox/rim light).The same lighting was used for both shots (of the mushrooms and my step daughter.. just moved a bit due to subject
size.)
Diagram in comments.