This is the story of how I created this banner for footwear online store. Of course this is a very rough work, the creation of which took me just one evening, including photography.
First, I drew a rough sketch, to understand what should it be about.
Then I took pic of this shoes. Actually, I had only one source of light. So I took a few shots with different lighting, and combined them in photoshop.
I took a few pictures of my wife with right angle.
And her hand...
Then a bit of photoshop magic and I got...
By the way, her nails i drew from nothing. So it was the hardest thing for me :)