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These are some photos from Moon Bar on the rooftop of the Banyan Tree hotel in Bangkok. The effect with the lights is a simple technique that i learned from Cybele who learned it from Andrew G while shooting a party at Harry M Miller's penthouse.
Using flash, simply set your shutter speed to about half a second and take your photo while spinning the camera in a circular fashion. Check my settings here.
You need to be in a location where there is lots of speckled light behind the subject, such as a rooftop at night with the city in the background.
This is what it looked like with the camera held still.
Comments (5)
That's a beautiful woman in striped dress! But I can't understand how she can smile on such height :-)
Posted by Kraig | March 17, 2008 4:31 AM
I forsee a bunch of tutorials being published, or are you reserving them for your speaking tours...heh
Posted by Matt | March 17, 2008 8:45 AM
Thanks for posting the settings - I foresee a lot of spinning pictures over the next few weeks.
Posted by Steve | March 17, 2008 9:42 AM
That's the first time I've seen it used for people shots, usually it's just cars and cities. It looks very cool, I like the first photo. It looks like she's in a spinning time warp.
Posted by Elizabeth | March 18, 2008 10:45 AM
Oldest trick in the book, but thanks for sharing!
Remember, not all long exposures will work well, lights must be speckles only, cos the blotchy lights ruin it.
I like your photos :)
Posted by Al | March 30, 2008 7:12 PM