Please email me at redwoodtwig@yahoo.com if you can attend any of these sessions and I'll send you detailed directions. In general, I'm about 20 miles south of Columbia just off Hwy 63 or 10 miles north of Jeff City.
I will be making light painting photographs at my place on 10, 11, 18, and 25 November, 2007, from about 5pm till 9pm each day, rain or shine. If it's too cold or too wet we'll work inside. That's Saturday and Sunday the 10th and 11th, Sunday the 18th and Sunday the 25th.
Here are a couple of links to stuff I've already done along this line: Various light paintings Pictures from the collaborative show with Peter Anger
Light painting dancing photoshoot: I've got three ideas I'd like to manifest into photographic art with your help if I can.
One of them is a pure light painting of multipe people dancing where the only thing that can be seen is the light trails. Variation one would be everyone dancing more or less in place and weaving different colored lights. Variation two would be everyone weaving in and out of each other, each person weaving just one color of lights. Perhaps some combination of still and moving.
The second idea is to fire a flash once or twice during a run through of each of the variations above so that we get visible figures as well as the light trails. I would be trying to catch some leaps in midair or at least lively movement.
The third idea is for one or two or three dancers to take poses and hold them without lights while the other dancers move around with lights and use the lights to illuminate the posed figure(s). I may want to set up candles or use some flashlight types of lights for this.
These need dark to work well, and I've got a perfect place at my upper pond that is not only sheltered from neighbour's view, but is also sheltered from street lights and such. There's two locations by the pond that will work, one is fairly flat and the other has a pretty good slope. Depending on time, we could try both. The slope would certainly distribute the lights over a wider part of the image.
If it's too cold or too wet to work outside, I do have a studio, though it does not have a high enough ceiling for getting wild with the lights.
For clothing I'd suggest either very dark or very light color tight body suit type of outfits, or very loose and streaming types of outfits. I have several pieces of cloth and safety pins that we can use for the streaming stuff. I think solid color would work best, but bold patterns might do too. Nude will also work very well for the illuminated shots. I'll be calling the flash out so you could be sure your face didn't show, if that is a concern.