This one was yummy and fun. I got the layout in my hands and knew what I had to do. I took my wife and went to the Palm restaurant in NYC. We ate steak and drank a little and waited until the restaurant closed. Then I pulled out the camera and shot all around the room. The Palm doesn't really look exactly like this but it is a good representation that fit the layout. When I got back to the studio I assembled the background from various location shots and then lit the foreground table, steak, A1 and chair in such a way that it matched the actual location lighting. One thing digital has really helped is shooting pieces and reassembling them to very closely match the art director's layout.
