Porsche Light Beam A Quiet Shock
August 2025
Tara Myles
2 min
Our work with Porsche began with the idea of turning the rear light of the car into a long beam that could move far beyond the form itself. We wanted to follow that single red line until it left the world of machines and became a pure streak of speed across the dusk sky. The day in the desert gave us the calm space we needed to explore this shift from real surface to bright motion. We tested slow pans and long exposures and found a moment where the car seemed to dissolve into light. From that point the scene changed and the frame opened into a quiet mix of glow.
Light Shift
The core idea was to let the line act like a path that leads from shape to feeling. We worked with soft turns and narrow light fields that allowed the beam to stretch across the frame until it held its own weight. Small moves changed everything the way the sky caught the red tone the way dust bent the glow the way the horizon pulled the line forward. As we kept shooting the beam grew more like a trace of flight than a mark of a car. The final images carry this shift a sense of moving beyond the road into a space where speed feels calm wide and almost unreal created in one long warm day that turned a single tail light into a story of pure motion.
