Water Sunflowers

 

To make this image I took a different approach from the previous "water flower" series. Instead of using a plastic body I blew water out of a hose to make the flower head, the leaves and the stem. then I stitched them together in PS.
below are some of the shots that I used to make the sunflower

Equipment Setup:

Camera: Canon 40D

Lens: Canon 28-135

Flash: Lumopro LP160 @ 1/16 power

Flash trigger: Cactus v5

Setup

More from this series:

   

Treasure Chest

To make this photo I used this tutorial from Indy Mogul to make the rocks, only that instead of covering them with newspaper I used a layer of paper towel and white glue. I did this so that when I poured the casting plaster on the "rocks" it wouldn't filter through the holes that I left with the masking tape.
you can see the process that I followed here:

Equipment Setup:

Camera: Canon 40D

Lens: Sigma 17-35 DG HSM

Flash: Lumopro LP160 @ full power and a Clairex Flash

Flash trigger: Cactus v5

Setup Shot

Bank Robbery

For this image I made a scale model of a bank vault with cardboard sheets,

(for the handles I used pencils), then I photographed the thief separately on a white

background (so I could easily separate him from the background later) and

later I photographed the bank vault in different angles with the same lighting.

the bank setup

Equipment Setup:

Camera: Canon 40D

Lens: Sigma 17-35 DG HSM

Flash: Lumopro LP160 @ 1/2 power

Flash trigger: Cactus v5

Here are a few pics from the same series (they will redirect you to Shutterstock's site)

  

Fire

For this image Laura and I made the cave out of 2 rolls of brown paper we bought earlier that day, we used coffee (her idea :) to paint the shadows on the "rocks" and black spray paint to simulate the shapes.
I added the fire later with PS.

Set-up
I used only one umbrella because the other one refused to fire during the shoot…

Me and Lau