How I made the setup: 

The set up cost me about 2,5 hour to complete. 

First of all I set up my general setup with my clothing rack and a white roll curtain as a background. 

Step 1: Set up the lines to hang the Candy Canes to with nylonthread. I used a broom and tripods to attach the lines to.

Step 2: When I was sure the lines were secure I started unwrapping the candy canes from the plastic seal and I attached about 15 candy canes with nylonthread to my line.

Step 3: After that I put the LED lights in the back of the photo set up, so they would become circles in the background when you use a low aperture (for example: f1,8).

I have used the program Photoshop to edit the photos. 

I started with selecting the images I liked the best, I prefer doing this with Adobe Bridge. You can easily give stars to photos you like, so you can find them back later. 

When I start editing I begin with adjusting the RAW file in the RAW converter (see photo below). Here I adjust, for example, brightness, contrast and the white balance. 

When I finished with the first step I opened the photo in Photoshop to start editing. 

The first thing I did was remove the nylonthreads that were very visible with the clone stamp. 

After that I adjusted the colours with the NIK collection ''color effex pro 4'' set. 

Lastly I have added colours to make the photo warmer and more moody. I've used the 'gradient tool' for this and some of my own stock images (see right).

The final step is adding my watermark and save it to a jpeg file so I can share it on Instagram.