Lava floor

My latest picture is named "Lava Floor." After I did my other, "If I dig deep enough – I might find gold."
I took the kids' perspective on stuff and self-experienced. I think many of us have been in that moment sometimes.

I asked my best friend if his son had played that and knew the rules. He did know Lava Floor. So at that moment, I draw a sketch to show my idea. And two weeks later we could do the shooting at their place.

Kids are always special to work with when it comes to acting, but I have to say that Julius did it well on my commands.

The idea was to do the lava so deep that it really makes sense for him to drop the car keys his mother is searching for in the background. I think that is a funny part of the image. Which can be confirmed.

The base exposure of the room turned out great, and I really achieved that mood and angle I was looking for. A little bit off from what I usually create. Straight lines and perspectives. It went out authentic.

The angle went down to 15mm, which is way wider than I usually shoot. Often stop at 24mm.

This makes the composites a little more complicated, I usually shoot miniatures in one frame, and that's it. When I do a miniature scene, it should cover the whole frame from Right to left and top to the bottom.

But now, I had to create the underground exposure for a focal length at 15mm, which means a lot wider scene and a more challenging perspective

The composites have to match angle + perspective and necessary the light blend together. The light wasn't super important in this case, so we had to create some glow from the "lava" from the low part.

The central part of this work was the retouching, and there were so many layers in this project. It took me a little more than a day to put together the final results from I got the two exposures for the room and the underground.

The entire process was made in Photoshop.

The gear I have used is:
Canon R5
Canon 10-35mm
1 Godox SL-60.
Elinchrom Quadra is on set to light up the room.