Spooky

OK - I know it's a few days early but today wasn't really that inviting as a photo day and this chap was asking to have his portrait taken.

It was harder than I expected to get the light right on this. Getting the inside and outside light in balance was tricky.

I did it using two shots. A long exposure in the dark for the inside light and a second stopped down exposure with a torch illuminating from the side. I then combined them as layers using the lighten blending mode and added a bit of high pass sharpening