Professor of Dance Christal Brown demonstrates a series of moves in this long exposure photograph made inside Middlebury College's dance theatre.
Using the low-level illumination provided by the stage lighting, Christal performed a series of moves from right to left across the frame. At key moments of her sequence, I used a radio to trigger a pair of small hotshoe strobes at stage left and right, freezing those moments in the image.
This was probably the most fun I've ever had on a shoot. Christal was wonderful to work with and we had the freedom to take a chance and experiment creatively with an unconventional technique. I believe it paid off.
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