Self Portrait: Pancake Breakfast

 I always envisioned doing a photo series of a zombie family, so I was very excited to be able to start on my first one. To create this image I first sketched out my concept [below]. I then started to organize props for the scene, and make our costumes. This image is a composite of 5 images; Self portrait, my son, my boyfriend, and two of the background. I lit the image using paper lanterns (china balls) for the table scene, one hot light snooted with aluminum foil on the background, and coming through the side window. All together this composite took a little over eight hours to shoot; from set styling to final shot.