It’s done!
Last night I finished the last of the edits, and got the final file uploaded. I’m very excited about this book, and hope you like it.
Please visit http://lacunal.com/ for ordering.

Phew! This is the final installment on how I shot the images for my new book, Lacunal: Volume 2. I’ve covered most of the techniques already, but I thought I’d cover one more, the flash-frozen jumping shots:

My proof of the book arrived, and it’s looking fantastic — I just have a few very minor tweaks to make. Yay!
So, in the past installments, I’ve talked about different ways to use the lighting and length of exposure to capture the felling of movement. Another tool at the photographer’s disposal is […]

For this 4th installment covering dance/motion techniques I’ve used in my almost-ready new book, we will build on what I covered yesterday. In part 3, I talked about using a single long exposure, constant lighting, and the model punctuating the movement with held poses.
For today’s technique, the setup is very similar, the only real […]

The images I’m going to talk about for today’s post on techniques used for the upcoming new book may look similar to the first post in this series. In that post I covered multiple firings of the flash in a single long exposure.
As I mentioned there, the ambient light (or the light from the […]

Yesterday’s post covered multiple-strobe firings in a single long exposure. For today’s post, I’ll just talk about the most simple technique, and get back to more complicated methods for dance/motion photography in the next few posts.
The most basic setup doesn’t involve any fancy tricks or equipment. The earliest images I shot that are […]

While I am waiting for the proof copy to arrive, I’d thought I’d take time over the next week or two to go into a bit of detail about some of the different techniques used to capture images for the dance/motion theme of this book.
Strobes are a wonderful tool for freezing motion, but with normal […]

All major editing and writing done, just waiting to get the proof copy back from the printer!

Since I get questions asking me how set-up and light certain shots, here’s the first (in what will hopefully be a series of) post going into a bit more detail of a shot.

(from this series of Erin)
The set-up for these shots was like this:
-Erin was posed on a table — higher up made it easier […]

First, my apologies for the long lack of updates. Parenthood is still keeping me rather busy, and my to-do lists have kinda spiraled out of control.
The summer also saw a major hiccup in my shooting: During renovation of the building the studio is in, worked managed to disturb some asbestos. The building […]