Ch 73: Pas de Deus

rutt

Misa Kuranaga & Reyneris Reyes rehearse for Don Quixote at Boston Ballet's Studio

Taken: 15 September 2006
Canon 5D / 24-70mm f/2.8L @ 70mm
1/320 @ f/2.8 / ISO 800

Please critique for this challenge. Thanks.

rutt

OK, no traction for that one, eh? How about this:

ESiggins

I like the second one better as overall, but it's really a shot of just her with him as background, so the first one is better for the challenge as it really shows them working together. Maybe work on the levels on the first one to try and get it to really pop the way the second one does - it just seems a bit flat. Darken the background perhaps to get the dancers to pop?

Nice work, though, I like 'em.

rutt

Here is another one of these two. I loved watching them work.

DavidTO

While the first one is nice, both the composition and the color/contrast seem flat to me.

I like the second one more. More pop, but it also has more of a sense of accidental synchronicity, which I like. It has more interest for me.

Scott_Quier

My thoughts, for what they're worth:


This is a very good image. For the challenge, this would have been a winner, if you had been able to retain the guys up-raised had to mirror her's.


In this one, the missing hands don't matter - they are synchronized. The rest of the image is nicely balanced between him and her.

Of the three in this thread, I would use the last, but DavidTO's comment about accidental synchronicity has a lot of merit.

rutt

Another shot from Boston Ballet:

twinbnj

great shots - but # 3 in the first group gets my thumbs up - very nice!

rutt

It's taking me a while to look though the shots I have and really see them in the context of this challenge. Unfortunately, the company is in the early stages of preparing for it's fall performances, so I didn't get large groups working together perfectly as they would closer to a performance.

Flyinggina

rutt wrote:

My favorite so far from a compositional point of view. Great photos.

Virginia

rutt

I really didn't want to give up on that first image. It shows them working hard together. It shows so much ballet experience and training in a simple pose (instead of a breathtaking leap or spin).

So I took inspiration for Nik. But instead of converting to B&W, I went for a brighter, more stylized, higher contrast color version. Looks a lot better to me than the original. Opinions?