This image is one of a series I shot for a client, Dorico (who make software for music composition and notation). The theme of their newest version was “music that moves”, so we ran with that.
The music you see projected on my ballet dancer, Julia, came from an absolutely massive 10,000 lumen projector (connected to a computer running the Dorico software), which was setup with its widest lens, to camera left. I had a 600W continuous light (Apurture LS600D) with 70cm gridded beauty dish, behind the model, 2.5m off the ground and camera left, to illuminate the red fabric flowing behind her. The rim light down her body came from two gridded strip boxes with high speed Godox QT1200 studio strobes (again, behind her: one to camera left, one to camera right). These were hidden behind some vflats, to prevent flare.
Camera was a Sony A7RII with adapted Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 lens.
Because the projector wasn’t as powerful as the rental house thought it was, I was forced to shoot at ISO10,000 f/5.6 1/200 (and turn my continuous light and strobes down to their very minimum, to balance the projector).
Beautiful!!
Thank you very much :-)
This is a truly outstanding image!
Very kind of you to say, many thanks!