Crime Scene

This is a crime scene where a young woman was strangled to death with barbed wire in her own backyard. She struggled for her life and fought back as much as possible but just couldn't stop her attacker from finally finsihing her off. Now I got my idea from watching the many television shows that are on tv about crime scenes and solving murder cases. My model is playing the dead victim and I put fake barbed wire around her neck and wrists to show that she was tied up and strangled with it. She did her make up to look like she had been dead by putting white powder on her face and purplish brown colors of eyeshadow around her eyes and neck. The location of the shoot was in my mother's backyard on the patio. We put fake blood on her neck and on the ground to show the barbed wire had cut into her skin. Also there is fake broken glass on the ground to show that a window was broken in the process of the struggle between her and the killer. I did some editing on Photoshop by changing the colors and other things. When I first was editing the photo I was going to make it a black and white image but the colors such as the blood and the model's hair seem to give it a better feel to get a murder from the photo. The model's hair with a streak of turquoise and the blood are great contrast colors sinc ethey are opposites of each other. So I decided to have the photo be desaturated to about 70% so that a hint of the colors were still visible in the image. Also I went up on the contrast about 50%. The black vignette around the model was from the camera flash not done in Photoshop. The time of day that I shot was around 7pm and I used my Olympus E-420 camera with an on camera flash.