CAPTURE AN INDOOR MOUNTAIN CLIMBING SCENE
Get yourself organised
Get everything prepared before your shoot, with card, rocks, figures – or whatever your scene is. It’s a good idea to make a checklist before the shoot, then you can make sure nothing is missing. Now you are ready to have a go at assembling your creative scene.
Manual focus and aperture priority
I focused on the subjects manually with a 60mm macro lens, and used an aperture of f/8 to help keep the figures in focus. The beauty of a macro lens is that it creates a shallow depth of field, giving focus to the figures and the area of rock around them. You can see how the foreground and background is more out of focus.
Get set up
Patience is needed to set up your scene, so don’t rush. It is best to shoot this type of project with natural light to avoid tungsten glare on your subjects: you’ll get a more natural-feeling result. Experiment with different positioning and backgrounds until you are happy with your setup.
Create some snow
The rock face looked quite bare. To make the scene a bit more realistic, some flour was added to represent snow on the peak. This finished off the snow-capped mountain scene perfectly, with a contrasting blue ‘sky’ to lift out the mountain and the models.