When I logged in last night I just wanted to check out the works from the artists I watch. Then I noticed that the pageviews suddenly had spiked over the 5000 mark. Could this be true?

So this is the first time I'm featured for a Daily Deviation. It is super exciting since I only came to Deviant Art a few weeks ago. But what's the best about this DD is the picture that was chosen.

With a few exceptions my photos are barely more than snapshots. Usually I only have a general idea about what I want to do and how to set the lights but the actual picture is worked out with the model during the shoot. That got me some very beautiful pictures but I wanted to have more of a story behind the photos.



What's different with Still too hot is that this is the first photo idea that I really planned from the very beginning. And it turned out just as we had it in mind

~FrauSchmidt and I sat down and she came up with this idea of a giant woman and a burning house. The next week we bought a model railway house and a background cloth (which was not used in the end) and then set up the photo. The actual shooting was one of the shortest sessions I ever had. We only took a couple of pictures and then it was perfect - setting up the lights took much longer. The model house was a little too big for our idea so I shot it seperately under the same lighting conditions.

Originally I did not want to use stock. Never had used stock before and I was somehow cautious because I don't want to violate copyrights. I have no problem giving people credit for their work but some usage rules are quite restrictive. Photographing the flames did not work - a candle is much too small and I did not want to risk burning down my house for a photo of a bigger flame. I tried to paint them but that just looked ridiculous . So I looked through DA and found the great flames by ~tirasco-madawa that had very acceptable usage rights . The original background cloth was not ideal so I used the texture from ~Enchantedgal-Stock. In total I worked about five hours on this picture until the lighting and colors were as I had them in mind.

I have to say I'm really happy with the result. A big thanks to the many people sharing their stock on DA! I'm sure I will use more in the future