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Photos from first preliminary shoot!
By jjtiziou | April 24, 2008
I’ve finally gotten a chance to make sense of the photos from last friday.
There’s a nice lot of them, and I’m pretty happy with how they turned out.
Below are a few samples… I hope you will like them too!
I was a bit nervous going into this, because after coordinating all of the logistics of scheduling dancers and volunteers, it would have been most unfortunate to pull it all together and end up with mediocre photos.
This kind of fast, assembly-line style of shooting would be *much* easier if I was doing it all with only studio strobe lighting and doing the “frozen mid-air on white background” look… but I tend to find that a bit static, and really prefer to work with the motion of the dancers, and use slower shutter speeds to create images that are part sharp and part blurred to show the movement…
The problem is that that way of shooting creates a lot more room for completely messing up and ending up with just a blurry mess, especially when you’re not familiar with the dancers movements, aren’t adjusting the lighting for their costumes, and only have 8 minutes or so with each dancer… but as I said, I think it worked out quite nicely…
Thank you again to Studio 34 for hosting our first photo session- and of course to all the dancers for participating!
Also a huge thanks to the excellent volunteer crew who helped keep everything smooth:
Jennifer Dillon, Scott Pryor, Aseel Rashid, Margaret Foley, Joe Barber, Stephanie 99, Terreyl Kirton, Melody Tash, Nora Berger-Green, Heidi Fuhr, Nyssa Taylor, Greg Finson, Jeb Lewis, Martin Brown, Ana Hernández, Emma Ferguson, James Peniston and Tamanya Garza
it was such a relief having them there so that I could focus on taking the pictures!
-jj
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