Painting with light

Situation 1 - Reach for the stars

 Stars fill the room and hallway of an abandoned house at 4934 S. Crawford Road. The room, which appeared to be a child's bedroom, had stars painted on the floor and ceiling, with a banner that read "reach for the stars".

17mm
f/8
30 seconds
ISO 100

When searching through an abandoned house at 4934 S. Crawford road, I came across a child's room on the second floor. The ceiling and floor were covered with painted stars, and there was a banner that read "reach for the stars". I made a light stencil out of a cardboard box by cutting a star shape out of the front, and cutting a hole in the bottom for the strobe. I used the strobe at 1/64 power to create the stars.

Situation 2 - Orb of light

A mysterious figure (Jeff Smith) stands within an orb of light in an abandoned house at 4934 S. Crawford Road. The room was ransacked and littered with garbage.

17mm
f/8
30 seconds
ISO 100
To shoot this, I put the camera on a tripod outside of the house, shooting through a broken window. I placed one strobe outside the other side of the house at full power, zoomed to 105mm to create the shadow of the windows on the left wall. I placed another strobe to the right, outside of the frame at 1/8 power to give the room a little bit of light. I spun a flashlight on a string and walked in a circle to create the orb of light, and then aimed the flashlight at my face to burn myself into the middle of the orb.