Recently I've been learning all about strobe lighting. It's such an amazing type of lighting to work with but oh so complicated at times! I'm still trying to get the hang of it. For my first shoot with using strobes, I wanted to play with capturing motion.
With these images I wanted to have a bit of a dark whimsy in my model's appearance, her movements and poses, as well as the balloons themselves.
In the first image, while mainly trying to capture just the pop of a balloon (and oh how this was harder to achieve than I could have ever imagined), I wanted the image to have a mischievous character. It's amazing that out of the 20+ balloon shots I attempted, only two actually captured the balloon pop. Despite the results, I had so much fun with this shoot and definitely would attempt this again.
With the second image (with a little help from my friends) I had the balloons trickle down on to a dreary like miss N. I had a sort of "black celebration" in mind.
The last image might be my favorite. I find it to be so delicate and beautiful with her body language and the single red floating balloon.
The girl with the red balloon.
