Little Red Riding Hood (Take 1)

So for my final piece I am putting together pictures of which I have taken to do with my tale, and of which I would like to manipulate in my final piece from this task.

Originally I took photos of 'woods' to represent her walking to her grandmothers, that I took in the snow. I did this as the white snow could represent Little red riding hoods innocence.

(Here is the image I chose to use as my scene)

For this tale there is obviously a wolf, this was difficult for me to decide on what to do as I would definitely find it difficult to get a picture of a wolf, so fortunately while I was out taking pictures of the snow there was a dog which may have worked perfectly. So when manipulating the photo I will find out. But while practising, then I will use a silhouette of a wolf, which could create more of an eerie atmosphere.

As you can see here, this was a practise to show if the wolf silhouette worked. I thought it worked well, but not as I had hoped. I darkened the scene to give a colder, darker, and more vulnerable feel to the 'woods'.

Obviously the main concept of the scene, is little red riding hood, this is an image from the Internet to test out whether it would work with the scene, as well as trying out ways of standing and positioning on the image. The way that this specific LRRH is standing shows shes scared and vulnerable so I may use this idea for my own character.

Here below is the first practise I did with the images that i took as well as from the Internet:

Above shows the original practise in colour and the second practise darker in black and white. I tried changing the colour to see if it looked more realistic and possibly add a more gloomy and eerie 'woods' feel to the image.

I moved around the wolf and little red riding hood as it seemed to be right side heavy on the original practise, so i made the wolf smaller and moved LRRH in more to the left.

Then I changed the darkness of LRRH individually first then the whole picture.

Here are a few screenshots:

All these changes and ideas i will use in my final image.

Here are some more screenshots of what i have been doing in order to achieve my final image.

Here is the image of my little red riding hood of which i have been using in my final piece.

As you can see above I am now using my own character/image for Little Red Riding Hood, as well as using the 'dog' for the wolf. When photographing LRRH I was thinking back to the Internet image for inspiration as she was positioned perfectly for what I had planned.

So to the photo, I have made many alterations. I kept trying to make the image look realistic, but also dark and eerie.

So I mainly used brightness and contrast to balance out the colours, but also decided to try it out in black and white.

Here below are different variations of what the image could look like, with this one being the lightest in colour.

This one being a lot darker compared to the previous one.

And the last one being in black and white.