Lightpainted Salsa Dancers
I took the Photograph above at my hotel in Dubai. That's Chris and Jaclyn from cubangroove.com who are three time World Salsa Champions. I met them while enjoying a beer in the bar at the hotel I'm staying at here in Dubai. After showing them some of my photos, we decided to do a quick photo shoot at the rooftop bar.
The only light source in the shot is a simple flashlight. I opened the shutter and started painting them with light. The white streaks indicate where I had the flashlight pointed at the camera.
Doing same with my high school photo students, painting with light assignment. Except we're using film.
Posted by: keith | May 03, 2008 at 09:34 AM
Very cool shot Ben. The pink/magenta (from her skirt?) is really nice here and also repeated in the back wall as well.
Posted by: Thomas Folke Andersen | May 03, 2008 at 07:20 PM
Keith... film, what's that?
Yes Thomas, the pink/magenta is the color of the inside of her skirt. She was moving it as I painted the lower portion of the photograph and then she became frozen once I got up to waist level.
-Ben
Posted by: Ben Willmore | May 03, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Look great, Ben!
Will you be posting the one with the strobe pop at the end?
Posted by: Adam Swords | May 06, 2008 at 04:31 AM