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

Falling Letters

To make this one I made a fake book page in photoshop, then I printed it in the same size as the book and pasted it inside. At first I was gonna make the letters fall from the book into a little pile but it was way too complicated (to achieve without photoshop) so I made it simpler.
usually when I plan on making a photo I search a little in flickr to see if my idea is already "taken", turns out this one was but I still wanted to make it. :)

This is the book page (the text is from Alice in Wonderland ;)

 The Set-up

Apple Ice Cream

 

To make this one I made the melted part out of clay (the apple is real), I painted it with oil paint because I couldn't get the hue I wanted from watercolor, then I went to the ice cream shop to buy a cone and I put a little amount of clay inside it too.

 

The apple before I painted it

 

after the paint

 

Set-up

Nothing special about this one, I just hanged a plastic frame with thread to an umbrella which was supported by my lighting tripods and then in PS I removed the thread. 

The Set-up

Camouflage (4)

 

To make this photo I went to my rooftop and used one of the mirrors from this shoot, put it in such a  way that it would only reflect the sky, then I painted a couple of clouds on my friend's face and placed an umbrella on her left.

 

Sofia wearing one of my shirts because I didn't want her clothes to get blue paint

 

The Set-up

Rosa de agua

 

To take this picture I made a basic "rose" shape out of a plastic bottle, I taped it to a twig and then I placed them upside down to pour the water over it.

The shot is composed of several shots to make it look like there are petals, below are some photos that made this shot along with the set-up.