“This image of the Mark II robot was taken in 2016 for an article about the company MegaBots, which makes giant fighting robots. I wanted to show the scale of the robot and that it’s piloted, and having [MegaBots cofounder] Matt Oehrlein climbing out of the cockpit accomplished both of those goals. We shot the robot outside, in front of a brick wall that came about halfway up the body of the robot, and then masked it out in post and dropped the shadow in. We used the sunlight as our key light and then filled the shadows with a strobe.”
