Little Red Riding Hood Shoot

 I decided to complete this shoot at night time with the lighting set up of just artificial street lamps to complete my modern day feel for Little Red Riding Hood. The idea for this shoot is that this sweet innocent girl can actually be a rebellious teenager and she defeats the wolf in the end (according to Roald Dahls Revolting Rhymes book, she pulls a pistol out on the wolf). The red hooded cloak has been replaced with a red hoodie as these are seen as a stereotypical teenage item and has been matched by the red lipstick.

I wanted the model to look intimidating and fierce instead of scared, so I used the shadows to put her behind bars to mimic time in prison and gave her a blank but stern facial expression to finish it all off.

I think that the outfit and location worked really well but I was unsure about the lighting set-up because the darkness caused me to use such a high ISO that the images started to appear grainy. Fortunately, I was shooting in RAW giving me some power over rectifying this grainy texture, but I think I may need to experiment with the images more and maybe keep them a little darker in the shadows for a mysterious tone. If I am still not happy after this then I will consider a re-shoot and plan for back-up lighting conditions such as more street lamps in the town centre or an additional flash gun to illuminate the scene (even in the day time as a directed flash at the model can send the background into darkness).