Singapore underground (10 images)

michswiss

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Full series here.

rutt

Difficult backgrounds, reminds me of the ballet studio. I have to work hard there to overcome it.

Also I know that it's very easy to get all wrapped up in trying to get dancers in the air or fully extended or whatever. But sometimes the best moments are when you catch them reacting to others and in down time.

I liked these a lot:

michswiss

rutt wrote:

Difficult backgrounds, reminds me of the ballet studio. I have to work hard there to overcome it.

Also I know that it's very easy to get all wrapped up in trying to get dancers in the air or fully extended or whatever. But sometimes the best moments are when you catch them reacting to others and in down time.

The lighting was horrible, yellow, sickly and dim. The walls all drab and some variation of grey. I wanted to keep the shutter speed over 500 so everything was shot wide-open at iso 3200 or 6400.

Thanks for taking the time to look into the gallery. I particularly like #2 and #5 of the thumbnails you selected. This was an interesting technical challenge for me. I've tried taking these sort of shots before and I simply didn't get into interesting positions and/or stuffed up exposure and shutter speed. I think I did reasonably well this time.

I'd love to shoot ballet at some point. I think it would be a fantastic learning experience.

damonff

love #3

rutt

michswiss wrote:

I'd love to shoot ballet at some point. I think it would be a fantastic learning experience.

A really humbling experience: I was shooting rehearsals of Cinderella in the studio. I went back over and over, maybe 5 days or more. I got to know the music and ballet pretty well. But I was getting nothing. I ended up deleting almost all the shots I took. It really just wasn't happening.

Then Sabi Varga, a soloist with the ballet and a fine photographer, came over and borrowed my camera. He made one circuit of the studio, maybe about 5 minutes... And got 20 beautiful shots.

Very discouraging, but it shows the advantage of knowing the dance inside out and also of being able to move around freely (it is constantly made clear to me that I should sit pretty darn still.)

The_Fat_Zebra

Great series. Aside from some excellent action shots I think the in-between shots are maybe even more telling: the girl looking, the guy laughing in an 'oops I messed up'-fashion, ...

Kian

Nice!! I always wanted to shoot some at City Hall MRT

canghuixu

I like #3 and #4. In #3, the two women in the background looking over and wondering what is happening somehow makes the picture really interesting for me. The fact that all you see is a contorted body hanging in the air, with no face visible, is a nice puzzle for the viewer.