Laser Dance

[wendellt]

Shot this performance that involved laser and dance interaction
shot it with 1/20 low shutter and iso2000 f2.8 yielded some interesting results

[Geoff M]

WOW cool work these look great.

[phillipb]

Great stuff Wendell,
I find it interesting the way you've managed to get movement in the arms and yet the body and head has no motion blur, specially in the last one.

[Photopotamus]

Wendell,

Awesome shots! Just when I thought I'd seen it all from you....

[surenj]

Great stuff Wendell.

I think you have found the balance between the shutter freezing and capturing motion. From the look of it, the lasers and the arms must have been moving much faster than the body?

[ian.bertram]

These are really amazing.
Please help me- how can you get such beautiful sharpness at a 20th and iso 2000!! Obviously these were taken on a tripod and I assume you are shooting raw and processing to add sharpness but I still don't think I could get anywhere near this. Is you camera a Hassleblad!! What was the kit? Sorry to ask so many questions but I love these shots and don't think I'd have a hope of replicating them (even given the lazers!).

[wendellt]

hi

thankyou for the comments its much appreciated

i had some time to figure out how to shoot this becausthat particular persormance went on for five minutes
i treied shooting at 1/250 high iso and f2.8 to capture the movement still but found out the lasers were not showing up because they flicker
So when i started shootign at much lower shutterspeeds i timed it so i would get the dancer when she was in a still pose
in some instances she moved her arms and the drape of the cloth moved but not her

in terms of sharpness i progressively downsampled and sharpened them 3 times one at full res andother rescaled image to 1600 pixels wide then another sharpen at 800 pixels wide. Also i used the edge of the stage as a support for the camera
no tripod.

[surenj]

Thanks Wendell for your insider info. What's the deal with progressive sharpening. Never heard of it! I only sharpen as the last step in my workflow. Recently I have been using light room to do the final sharpening on the PSD file [probably not a good idea].

Is you camera a Hassleblad

Ian, I think Wendell uses D3 with a VR lens. Hassleblad wouldn't perform any better without VR or any high ISO capabilities. I thought the highest ISO would 800.

[Glen]

Very unique Wendell, you capture moving light well again!