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