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"The Watcher in the Woods", "Lost" and "The Ruins"
The "weird but beautiful" style of Spanish film director Guilermo Del Toro was the catalyst behind these images from last month's "Children of the Labyrinth" shoot in London.  I wanted to create something based in dark fantasy and although not all the images have come out perfect, I'm still pleased with the results.  Of course I owe my thanks to the wonderful models catwalk_ghost, Xanadu Nox and Angel of Darkness for accepting my ideas with great patience and for working hard to create my strange visions!

Several people have mentioned here and on my other accounts, how unusually dark these images are and I have to explain that I was using very short shutter speeds to prevent burn out.  Although I shot in RAW, I was still terribly worried that the days bright sunlight was going to ruin the shoot.  I was using three SB-600 speedlights as fill in but the daylight was changing so fast, I ended up playing safe and stopping down by several stops.