I love all sorts of rollercoasters and slides, especially water slides. So it was a question of time that I came up with the idea of building a real wild thing into a romantic landscape... 

The studio tests quickly led to the idea of using a beauty dish as a main light source, the additional light had do be reflected by a blus screen (in order to simulate the blue sky) and a red paper foreground (which creates the expectable red reflections)

 

The mountain is shot with a long lens of 200mm, so I had to cut it in pieces to have it create a view with a strong perspective. I did this shot in january 2014 and thought since that time of a great scene where I could use the massive rock.

 

The slide itself is a creation I realised in Cinema 4D. Also most of the textures were created here, then brought into a rich lighting done by a HDRI. That sort of embeds the slide into the landscape, creating the perfect reflections.