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On the evening of Easter I found myself with some spare time. An idea started to form in my head, just for fun I wanted to recreate a movie poster. After a tweet, @DeFre became my instant model.

This left me just one hour to find a poster I wanted, think about how I would achieve the same look and prepare everything. I found this movie poster:

because I knew Fré already, I was pretty sure it would work.

After some tweaking in post processing and the addition of artificial smoke, because I couldn’t gather enough smokers on a short notice, here is the result

The shoot was done in a total of 4 hours from idea till final image. I used 2 bowens gemini 500R studiolights with a bowens travelpak. The photo was taken in 20sec exposure while manually triggering the flashes 3 times.

I’m not completely satisfied with the result but it’s a start. I’ve learned a lot while doing this and most importantly we all had a lot of fun. Big thanks to Fré to go along with my crazy idea and Sara for helping out, withstanding the cold and being the beer supplier of the evening.