Haha thank you so much Allan.
I had lots of fun with this challenge because it was so timely. I'm currently binge watching 7 seasons of Pretty Little Liars on Netflix (up to season 6) and I got excited with ideas for the forest title. On the show there's plenty of spooky dolls scenes right thru the seasons, murders (all connected to the girls who keep getting framed by a terrorist), lots of forest scenes, digging up dead bodies, ghosts etc. So the pics I took were just as much for me as for this challenge. I used my cousin as the model, and I wanted her dressed just so (loaned her my dress), bought hairband, some shots I covered her arm in mud (did her face too but the sunlight doesn't show it on her face grrr). Pulled apart limbs from Barbie dolls, buried them limbs poking out, and a really spooky doll for a prop that Chucky is probably pals with
. I used golden hour light so the pressure was on, my cousin was such a patient
model. She wasn't allowed to smile in any of the shots as I wanted it dark & mysterious. The shot I entered, I was trying to replicate a ghostly travel through the forest. My first go at a daytime long exposure (more pressure lol). So many attempts getting the timing right with her getting up and walking and framing between the trees and also clearly showing a body moving away. And bless her heart, my little cuz did it all happily.
These challenges are really fun for people like me learning their way through photography, it helps us to get creative and push our limits to see what we can do.
These are my reject pics featuring Chucky and CSI Barbie
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The show's theme is shhhh can you keep a secret? So that's why that pose in one of the pics.
