Bill Wadman

Bill Wadman and his project 'Motion' 

Bill shot portraits of dancers with a slow shutter speed in order to capture the movements through motion blur. The final photographs look like a blurs and sheets of photography and could even resemble a painting.

Bill used a Canon 5D Mark II and a 35mm f/1.4 lens to shoot this project. Each of the images used a simple exposure and they were taken in a very dark room with a single soft light shining down on the dancers from above. The shutter speed lasted for 3 seconds with an f number stopped to 11, doing this prevented the depth-of-field from being too shallow seeing as he was trying to get motion blur rather than out-of-focus blur.

Bill Wadman's work was heavily influenced by Benjamin Wong shutter speed photography in which he told a beautiful love story through fashion and dance;