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Several companies make programmable LED hoops. You can choose the pattern, colour, and speed of emitted light. Some of these smart hoops have up to 9000 possible combinations. It was clear that during our photo shoot, Jusztina and I would only be able to sample a few of these.<\/p>\n

\"Circus
I used a four second exposure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
No two pics can be the same.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
I let Jusztina try different poses, as long as she looked in the direction of the main light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Changing the timing of the pattern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
I love how the blue colour goes with Jusztina’s outfit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
For this pose the separation light is crucial so Jusztina’s back doesn’t disappear in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These hoops allow circus artists to create dazzling effects and geometric trails best captured using long-exposure photography and a dark, nearly black background. We therefore scheduled the shoot after sunset, which means late afternoon in Scotland during the winter months.<\/p>\n

\"Circus
Very dense pattern of light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Relatively sparse pattern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Changing colours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Changing colours again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Between the change of pose and colours, the possibilities are endless.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I like to freeze my subject at the beginning of the exposure and to achieve this, I used two small flashes. One to my left, and the other one behind Jusztina to my right to provide separation from the background.<\/p>\n

\"Circus
I love all of the colours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
I had to let Jusztina know how far to go to be at the right edge of the frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
I did accentuate the refliction on the ground in post-production.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Another pose where the flash behind Jusztina turned out to be really important.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
I prefer when Jusztina is well separated from the light trail, but she loved this pic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We shot at the Scottish Parliament because it is pretty quiet after business hours. It also has pools of water allowing us to shoot reflections. We didn’t use that for the first part of the shoot, and in fact, we could have picked pretty much any location for the long-exposure photography.<\/p>\n

\"Circus
Fun colours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
This colour palette also works well with Jusztina’s outfit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
I asked Jusztina to always keep the hoop away from her face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
Back to blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Circus
This hexagon pattern is amazing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Jusztina had her water spirit costume on, and we had to make full use of it. A water spirit is a kind of supernatural being found in the folklore of many cultures. In Celtic mythology, each-uisges, kelpies, and nuggles are horse-like creatures, while the gwragedd annwn and selkie take the form of a woman.<\/p>\n

After we were satisfied we had plenty of usable hoop photos, we decided to move on to a few water spirit shots by the pool.<\/p>\n

\"Water
I really love reflections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Water
Playing with water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Water
I did add a few more water drops in post-production.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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