Behind the Scenes of LightSpin with Eric Paré

This is the story of how I managed to take half a million pictures of contemporary dancers in the dark using light-painting, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques. See full details + tutorials on http://lightspin.ca/documentary Dancers: Angie Cheng, Coralie Muroni, Cori Kresge, Daphnée Laurendeau, Dylan Crossman, Erin Poole, Esther Rousseau-Morin, Kim Henry, Leon Kupferschmid, Lucie Vigneault, Margie Gillis, Maria Simone, Merryn Kritzinger, Michael Watts, Paul-André Fortier, Simon Xavier Lefebvre Project made with the help of Nicolas Foisy, Stéphane Hoareau, Ronin Jah, Jeremy Lloubes, Coralie Muroni, Jean-François Sarrazin Original LightSpin music composed and performed by Eric Paré and Marie-Ève Scarfone http://ericpare.com http://timecodelab.com

We saw LightSpin about a month ago and were blown away with the meticulous effort and clarity of vision from Eric Paré  that were needed to achieve the effect. ​As promised, here is the Behind The Scenes video. 

From the project page:​

"This is the story of how I managed to take half a million pictures of contemporary dancers in the dark using light-painting, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques."

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Also see the full video »​

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Dance, Stop-Motion and a 360° Camera Rig: LightSpin

LightSpin is an experimental photography and art project that finds its source in a unique lightpainting technique. For this project, ten performers improvised contemporary dance movements at the center of a ring on which 24 cameras were mounted. Their brief dances were carried out in pitch darkness, light being aimed at the subjects as to reveal their shapes and movements, thus capturing their passage in a defined space. Pushing the exploration even further, the final result of this project becomes a fully animated, 360-degree representation of movements! Viewed and shared on the Web, the LightSpin project is launched as a world premiere in honor of the International Dance Day. Dancers: Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin, Dylan Crossman, Paul-André Fortier, Margie Gilis, Kim Henry, Cori Kresge, Merryn Kritzinger, Leon Kupferschmid, Daphnée Laurendeau, Simon Xavier Lefebvre, Louis-Elyan Martin, Alex Morin, Coralie Muroni, Erin Poole, Lucie Vigneault, Michael Watts http://ericpare.com http://timecodelab.com See full gallery on http://lightspin.ca Team Nicolas Foisy, Stéphane Hoareau, David Gaudet, Jeremy Lloubes, Jean-François Sarrazin LightSpin, from the creators of The http://24x360.com Project.

Timecode Lab and Eric Paré have developed this project is called LightSpin using a special camera rig  of 24 DSLR cameras. ​

They’re planning to release a making-of video a month from now, on May 29th, 2013. ​