Dude! I nevar knew! D:

lols yah I got a lil skills :3

Thanks XD

ain't that something!

hmm would love to have seen how he took this what settings he used and what equipment he used, and toask him where he bought that staff thingy

Ask him! I'm sure he could tell you a bit more about it. The flowstaff though is easy to find, just research flowtoys online. :)

It's pretty simple to get this type of effect with flash (to freeze the motion) + long exposure time (to get the trails). And it looks like he had the flash fire at the end of the exposure.

yeah thats what i was thinking but you can also do the flash in tehbeginning then add in the long exposure time

Raymond's right: it was a rear-curtain flash, about a 2.5s exposure.

Lighting was three strobes and a reflector. Two SB-600s, one on each side, about 15 feet away, high up and slightly behind him. One SB-900 in front about chest high, maybe 10 feet away. A silver reflector at his feet completed the lighting. Camera had my 10mm lens on it, locked down on a tripod as close to the ground as I could get it.

Staff is a Flow Staff. Flowtoys.com

what kind of camera do you use? and this amazing did you go through college to learn all of this or did you just experiment and decide what worked for you and what didn't?

Nikon D300, the lens was a Sigma 10-20mm I picked up a couple months back and have been having way too much fun with.

I'm mostly self taught, modulo a few workshops I've gone to. A couple years back someone pointed me to Strobist (strobist.blogspot.com) and I started going through his lessons on basic off-camera lighting, and I've kind of worked up from that.

i would love to try that stuff when i get back state side and can get teh storage space for stuff like that, as for now i barely have enough room for my camera and 3 lenses but i love my rebel XTi i have been getting great pictures from japan with it

wow! this is kewl! i wanna learn!!!! :o

not really that hard to pick up I guess. I've tought a few friends a few tricks. :3

imna have to buy one of those things and practice then ^^

You can totally find all kinda instructional videos on utube huskybutt. :)

oky! ^^ ill search!!!! >:3 hehe.

Hey carefull with that! Its sensative D: