Making an early winter scene

We are taking pictures of people today. Reference for a winter scene illustration. Part of the image reference will be created in a 3D program and the people will be shot as photographs with similar lighting and then dropped in. The image will then be used as reference for the final painting which will have a higher contrast and more saturation probably but will generally look the same. The benefit of doing it this way is that the art director can give the go ahead on the painting and know that it won't look too different in the final from the thing he approved. That's important on crazy deadline jobs like this one. Crazy deadlines also generate other problems too. There is no time to do anything twice so we have lined up twice the number of models we need for the shoot. That'll cover for any that don't show up and also give the art director some extra leeway in his selection of the ones that he wants to use. I'll post some of the shots after the shoot.