Had a great shoot with Marie before she left for Berlin last week. We wanted to get something that was unexpected and a bit chaotic, so we did some lightpaint-shutter-dragging mixed with strobe. The key to getting a shot like this one is light control. You have to control where the flash is going to hit (for the sharp parts of the image) and control where the continuous light will hit (for the lightpainting sparkle bits). Once you’ve set up these two zones it’s a simple matter of moving the camera to get the sparkles the way you want, and then just do it over and over again.