I wanted to do a shot of Shel here where I was using a mix of strobes and continuous light. When you are going to make a picture this way, light control is the name of the game. Anything lit up with the strobes will be sharp and well defined, anything lit up with the continuous lights will be glowy and have motion trails all over the place. The idea here was to have her sit still while her necklace was lighting up the area. So there’s a gridded stripbox on her face, and a gridded light on the background for separation. Then there’s two continuous lights (LED bulbs, but with a warm color temp), one on either side of her, wrapped in cinefoil to keep the light on the necklace and nowhere else. A long shutter exposure, and a pop from the strobes, and there it is. The trickiest part really was in figuring out the camera movement that would give me the desired results. In the end we wound up using a combination of my shaking and moving the camera, and Shel swaying back and forth in her chair. There was a lot of trial and error, but in the end it really worked out well. I think there’s a lot of directions this technique could go. Lots of possibilities.
New Work - Strobe and Continuous with Shel
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