Last night, in a cold former-factory in Pueblo, Co, the Colorado Light Painting group met up with some aerialists and I was able to take a shot at this effect. I'm including two pictures. One is the straight-out-of-camera jpg, the other was cropped and level-adjusted. I have things I'd absolutely improve for next time, but I wanted to share.
Two tripods, a mid-shot lens swap, a lightbox. 122 seconds total exposure time. But about three seconds of actual lighting time for the tubes, and a single flash pop later in the softbox.
Aerialist models Chris Wegert and Emily Wegert. Tube by Russell Klimas, front flash by Ben Lutze.
We shot the scene, then I moved the camera to a second tripod swap after swapping the initial lens for a 20mm. We had a jar (internally painted black) set up in lightbox and I popped a flash in there to whiteout everything around the jar.
Bam, we have two aerialists, light painted, in a jar, in one exposure, and zero post processing.
Thanks to Gregory Howell for use of Watertower Place in Pueblo!!