WWI WW Walkthrough (Patreon)

I used some new build techniques for this set up. Including but not limited to using hand-cuffs as barbed wire, the inset windowsills using jumpers and tiles, intentionally built decay (Lt Grey Building).

Speaking of which, Daniel Fortine was the original designer of those windowsills. I adapted his concept a tinge, but here's his original build: https://flic.kr/p/C5t714

The lighting setup for this little town was "easy" in the physical sense, but really most of this shoot involved a lot of camera interface adjustments. Mostly through the external flash brightness in relation to the ISO and shutter speed in order to contract darker tones, with out risking crispness and quality (i.e. shooting without the external flash will be far grainier than shooting with it. You can seen an exaggerated example of that with my Nov. 1918 photo)

I used my standard wire suspension for the flying figures. Both counter-weights were just off frame (WW's behind the background paper), and erased in post-production.

The buildings and figures moved around quite a lot in order to get the proper blocking where no one was obsured from the lens and yet still have Diana as the focus of the piece. Ultimately I fell back on having her slightly right of center taking up negative space between the buildings, with most of the supporting figures taking up unbalanced portions of the image. It made the set-up feel just a little more natural than centering everything evenly :)