Selene falls in love with Endymion, and asks for Zeus to grant him eternal sleep. Her sister, Eos, asked for her lover to be granted eternal life, but not eternal youth, so her lover grew so old he eventually turned into a grasshopper. Selene sees this, and asks for Endymion to be granted eternal sleep so that he could stay forever young.
*I took this series of photographs for my Greek and Roman mythology final project. We had to do a reinterpretation of any myth we wanted in any medium we wanted, so I chose photography*
The lighting setup was pretty intricate. I had one light where the moon is lighting Selene, I had a light with a softbox behind Selene lighting the valley behind the big rock on the right, a light with an umbrella on Endymion and another light as a fill light. It was quite a monster getting all the lights to go off at once because for some reason, my flash receivers didn't like to listen to my camera all the time, but I got it figured out and am very happy with the results.
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