Sweetheart, what did you bury in the garden? Why were you out there at four o'clock in the morning? I'm starting to think that maybe you aren't as sweet and innocent as you make out, you know. Like maybe you seduced e for a reason at that party last month. Maybe you're here looking for the Dagger of Usk. Maybe you even think you found it. Maybe that's what you think you buried in the garden. Well, let's wrap you in rope and have a little chat about it, shall we?

Hywel's note: this is another example of cross-lighting, with a two light-pattern. The key light is outside the window, in the form of the mother of all softboxes, whose front face is more or less the same size as the window. (So that whited-out window look is actually the softbox: the window is shaded most of the day, which is why I'm using artificial light instead of actual pukka daylight). The cross-lighting is from a hairlight on a pole behind the bamboo-and-paper screen. It's functioning as a hairlight and rim-light for most of the shooting angles. A traditional lighting set-up would have a third light in front of Rachelle but the room's dimensions are a bit too tight for that. So sometimes I put a light out in the conservatory to try to generate catchlights and fill the shadows a bit. But for a slightly more dramatic look, which I was after for this set, I generally just rely on light bouncing around the pale walls of the room to provide some fill.

P.S. lovely job on the "rope ladder" tie by Ariel in this set, and super dramatic poses from Rachelle- a winning combination, I think.