My Invisible Knight Shot with Dave DeBaeremaeker

Platypod Pro Dave DeBaeremaeker caught our eye with this shot recently so we asked him to tell us about it. Here's what he had to say.

This shot was a long time in the making. I bought my first 3D resin printer during the COVID lockdown, and this Invisible Knight was one of the first models I printed and painted. It has sat on my shelf for almost five years now, waiting for the day it would finally grace my camera. It just needed the right setting.

I built the scene of an old castle—or a cathedral (I’ve not really settled on which it is, but definitely something medieval)—out of XPS foam, backed by an old cereal box. The window sills are 3D prints, and the "glass" is simply some wax paper.

I wanted to give the image a dark yet dramatic feel, so I added “sunlight” shining through the windows using some Lume Cube lights. The Platypod Goosenecks with the eXtreme base were the perfect way to position those lights just right—to illuminate the side windows and place the central light perfectly to mimic the sun shining in through the middle window. That central beam was enhanced with a burst of mist from a can of Atmosphere Aerosol, which caused the light to bloom in-camera and gave me exactly the dramatic effect I was going for.

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