Satori in Taurus ::::: Tom Bennett ::::: 1990s Ford Taurus
While teaching last April’s workshop at Paul’s Junkyard I enjoyed making light painted time exposures of all the students. It lets me make certain to have some good one-on-one time with everyone and they really get to see how I work, first hand. I’ll be putting a few favorites online this week.
Here’s Tom Bennett meditating under a folded-in-half Ford Taurus. It took, I dunno, 40 tries to get this right? That may be a slight exaggeration . . . but this was very difficult to bring off. I lit Tom with low powered flash pops from both sides (1/4 power from the right, 1/8 power from the left). I also hit this side of the car with a red LED from shallow angles on the right and left. Then I went behind the car and laid on the ground, reached under the car behind Tom and did a series of purple-gelled strobe pops. I also lit the interior with red LED from the rear. Then I trotted back to the camera and closed the lens. The whole thing took 149 seconds.
