For my latest project I wanted to create a place where a person has decided to escape his old habits and obligations to take a step out into the unknown. Blocking the door with his office chair and creating a paper plane made of old office papers. (in fact made out of my old failed exams from my university time). I wanted to create a symmetric composition representing the old and new world to make it look as if it's a crossroad between the old and new path, with the man posissioned slightly to the right as if he already made up his mind, this is his escape.
I had a large silver umbrella outside the window on the right side with a flash with a warm filter that would give this soft big light from the right side on the model and environment (profoto b1x). From the left side I had a smaller flash where the window of the door is with a blue filter (profoto A1) aimed towards the model. I also had a third flash with a slight greenish filter aimed towards the ceiling giving on overall soft fill light, making the ceiling act like a giant softbox (profoto b10). That's basically it. The paper plane was a real size 2 meter prop I built and all the props in the background i either rented or bought. I wanted to give it a feeling of being a snapshot somehow so did a high res scan of a plain negative shot on a analog Hasselblad camera that I applied on top of the image to create realistic analog feeling noise / grain. The model was a friend of mine. Colors were tweaked in photoshop but that's pretty much it. Door shot separately and placed there in post in the same perspective and light. See the video below how it was made.
