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Resting his camera on a tripod, Paiva builds the layers of color with strobes, LED flashlights and other hand-held lighting devices. With exposure oftentimes stretching into minutes, rather than seconds, he's even able to step into the frame to illuminate certain sections of the picture without appearing in the final shot.It's a painstaking process that can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to half an hour per image.
"It's like making a painting," he said."You've got to craft it -- you've got to build it. That's why it's totally different from other types of photography."The theatrical images form just a fraction of Paiva's output from a career spanning almost three decades.
"This is not a new thing -- it's something that people have always done," he said."But I think it's been popularized in the last 20 years.
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