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Dance and Light

And a camera, too

Spent the evening with some friends doing a photoshoot for the upcoming NECTAR performance at Yoga Soup here in SB. Erin and Kaita have a fantastic dance routine where they are tied together with a long white cloth, pushing and pulling at each other. They wanted to capture some of the movement and energy in photos, and I had a few ideas. Here’s what we came up with:


Santa Barbara Dance Photography
Santa Barbara Dance Photography
Santa Barbara Dance Photography
Santa Barbara Dance Photography
Santa Barbara Dance Photography

D300, 12-24mm, f/8, off-camera flash

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Hey Toby
Light painting combined with Off camera flash… .Gorgeous images, I really like them.

Funnily enough I’m doing a shoot tomorrow night using the same combination… but totally different subject matter.

I love the way you have made it look like the dancers ARE the light source.

Nice one

BP

Brent  on  Nov 18  at  04:02 AM

Very nice! :)

Emrys Roberts  on  Nov 18  at  08:51 AM

This is a really fantastic series.  Well done!!

David Hogan  on  Dec 02  at  09:44 AM

You are the goddamn master....going on a road trip now..gonna try some stuff in the snow storm tonight.

thanks for the inspiration.

Kc Gunn  on  Dec 18  at  07:57 PM

Hi, Im in an ap art class in my high school and i absolutely love your photos? i was wondering how you did this on your camera? im looking into trying the same thing

taylor  on  Jan 09  at  09:37 PM

Hi, I’m in an AP Art class and I’m trying to work on motion blur photography. I saw your pictures and I thought they were beautiful? If you don’t mind, how did you capture these images? I’m new to photography and am trying to figure out how to do images just like yours.

taylor  on  Jan 10  at  12:00 PM

Just found your site and these fantastic images. Had to comment. Absolutely stunning!

Sam  on  May 10  at  03:16 PM

Hi man,
As taylor says, I wonder how could you take those pictures. I just can get how did you manage to mix a long exposure shoot with such clear images of the dancers.

Apart from that. Did you use any backlight to make it look like if the dancers were the light source?

Apes T. Sistem  on  Nov 06  at  07:07 PM

Taylor, Apes,

I used two different types of light for these shots. The main light was a speedlight into an umbrella, while the blue hazy light effect was done by shining an LED flashlight at the dancers while they moved during a long exposure.

Cheers, thanks for stopping by!

Toby  on  Nov 08  at  05:41 PM

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