I recently had a photo shoot with Queensland Firebirds player Laura Geitz. I wanted to do something a little different so I thought I'd do something funky with lights etc.
I got my hands on a 2m length of LED lights. Bought a netball and some black stocking. I covered the netball in 1 piece of stocking to make the ball black. Then I wrapped the netball in the LED lights. As the lights were sticking up I then put another layer of black stocking over the LED's and ball. This piece of stocking I kept a bit longer so i could spin the ball from something.
The pic was shot in a dark studio at an aperture of about f14. I got Laura to stand perfectly still in the position I needed, I fired the camera shutter on Bulb mode, walked over in the dark and then spun the ball and turned on the LED's for about 4 seconds. Then I turned the LED's off and walked out of the frame and then fired an Elinchrom flash to light Laura up.
Quite a simple shoot really. It took some time and several goes as the ball moved a bit and Laura's hand would be different in each shot. Eventually we jagged it and turned out to be a funky shot. The final image was about a 40 second exposure.
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