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Good Witch or Bad Witch?

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Who cares? I'm going to burn either way...

I'll remember this as the picture that nearly drove me completely bloody mad.
Early in the shoot, I captured this perfect shot where my eyes are wide open and I'm looking up at my hat, which appears to be covered in flames. Then I had the bright idea of adding an extra prop (a wooden sign that says "witch") and trying to replicate this once-in-a-lifetime shot. Could not get it. The stake animation had my avatar keeping her eyes tightly shut, only occasionally opening them, and hardly ever with that wide, clear look. Even if I did have the split-second timing to capture that look again, the flames wouldn't be on my hat.
After 250+ snapshots I gave up, realising it would be easier to go to GIMP and paste the sign into the original shot I loved. I thought I did a good job, but then I started to think the sign was unnecessary after all, distracting from the rest of the scene. I can always use it again in a similar picture.
So... That's how much of a crazy perfectionist I am over these silly little pictures.
Anyway, continuing with the Halloween theme, and this is one of my favourite types of peril scene.

Second Life snapshot.
Costume: Divine Witch by Lestat Reuven
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I don't know how you can stand it, E.D.  That's an A-line full-length dress you are wearing, isn't it?   It seems to me that's its wide flair at the hem gathers all the fire from a very wide circle, and funnels all that  heat upwards where it has nowhere to go except  to gush against some rather sensitive places on a woman's body.  What did you DO to earn such torture?

 

Lestat Reuven has certainly created a masterpiece of fashion.  I wonder if Lestat knew how much us guys would dig watching you in it?