I heard on the radio that their Christmas spirit was the only one with heart and soul. We disagree. The Christmas spirit we conjured has heart and soul too – granted it’s someone else’s heart and someone else’s soul. I don’t think they will be getting a return on their heart and soul either. Anyway, be careful what spirits you invite to visit.
This idea literally came from the radio and sort of worked from there. As for props, the heart is made of white resin and painted. The crystal ball is just me not being able to resist using it again. I am overly fascinated by what it does to light flashes. It’s just so weird. I’ll likely overuse it. The headpiece came from online but days before I found stuff in the dollar store that could have done the same for cheaper. We used a little fake blood left over from Halloween. The rest my model put together on her own and she handled her own face makeup for this session.
As for lighting, things are a bit more complicated. For the first two photos it is a 4 light shot. Two speed lights to the sides of the model bouncing light at an angle upwards. 1 strobe in back to bounce light against the fog machine fog. Finally, one light positioned just behind the crystal ball with a boom stand which is edited out into the fog. For the rest of the photos, we got rid of the back light and just used the other 3.