There’s a kind of magic in the instant something takes flight—a blur of motion, a burst of color, a fraction of a second that’s already gone before we notice it. For this project in Advanced Principles of Photography, we explored how strobes can do what the eye can’t: freeze movement at its most explosive. I experimented with confetti resting on a drum, capturing the precise moment it launched into the air with a single strike—suspended mid-jump, each piece caught in a delicate standoff with gravity. I’ve also included images from an in-class shoot where a fan kept confetti floating around a model, giving us a dreamy, otherworldly atmosphere to capture with light and timing. Each frame in this gallery holds a fleeting moment still—something wild and weightless, momentarily frozen in flight.
