This photograph is a recreation of a scene from Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation of "The Shining." I wanted to closely recreate the lighting, colors and overall gritty feeling the original image has. It was a fun challenge to work this way- usually when editing photography we are editing it to look more realistic and have the correct exposures, color balance, etc., but for this photo I was degrading the original image I shot to match the inspiration.
I created my own props for this image by taking white and brown tackboard and cutting/scraping it to look like the door that got chopped down in the movie. This was a lot of fun and had me thinking outside the box for how to create a believable wooden door that wouldn't be obviously fake or cheesy.
My subject's expression is a bit more playful than the original, but this didn't bother me because it captures some of the personality of the subject and integrates it into the photograph, instead of just being a straight copy.
This was taken with indoor overhead florescent lighting.
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