Life on Mars?

[Laurence Cremetti]

 

[Pete Askew]

Nice! A statue I hope and not something you planted!!

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

No, it isn't a statue........ It doesn't belong there......... Gotcha, eh?

 

[Pete Askew]

Certainly have! It looks like some sort of flat-pack thingy. What is it?

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

It's a point-of-sale products from one of my shoots.
The shot is a carbaord tree, shot in the studio as a plain product, (read: very softly lit), on white. It's then cut out and placed on an old file of a field in bright sunlight and re-processed. Fun, eh? I was short of work at the time!!

 

[Pete Askew]

Works quite well though. I had noticed that the shadows on the soil and the object didn't quite match but I assumed it was shot late in the day and you had used a portable flash head. So, the compositing isn't that obvious to me. Nicely done.

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

Thank you!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Nice comp - I didn't spot it until you described the back story - very cool!

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

Many thanks, Chris!