Apollo: Tina LeBlanc & Gonzalo Garcia at Boston Ballet

ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
edited December 9, 2006 in People
This performance of Balanchine's Apollo with a Stravinsky score was at Boston Ballet's Gala, 25 October 2006. Gonzalo and Tina are guest artists from the San Francisco Ballet (and so it took a little extra time to get their approvals.) Lots of people think Gonzalo is the finest male dancer of his generation.

All shot with Canon 5D + 135mm f/2.0. Exif data for the individual images can be found in this gallery.


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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2006
    Very nice, rutt. You've got this ballet thing down.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2006
    John,
    You do master these (and other) type of photography, scenario, light etc... :D

    Very nice.
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  • binghottbinghott Registered Users Posts: 1,075 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2006
    these are fantastic, you've really got this ballet thing nailed.

    not that you can do anything about it, but that floor looks awfully dirty.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2006
    Beautiful, man.
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2006
    Great shots. I love the fourth one in the series particularly. Such beautiful lines.

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  • Ted SzukalskiTed Szukalski Registered Users Posts: 1,079 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2006
    Excellent photographs. I always enjoy your posts.

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  • HiSPLHiSPL Registered Users Posts: 251 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2006
    binghott wrote:
    these are fantastic, you've really got this ballet thing nailed.

    not that you can do anything about it, but that floor looks awfully dirty.

    Ballet dancers use rosin on their shoes for traction. This flakes off and coats the floor with that dusty looking film and looks nasty, unfortunately there's not much you can do to prevent it. If the lighting designer has focused their side lights well, they will not hit the floor, so you can wait until (if) there is a lighting cue that is all side light with nothing else. That will make the floor disappear....

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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2006
    HiSPL wrote:
    Ballet dancers use rosin on their shoes for traction. This flakes off and coats the floor with that dusty looking film and looks nasty, unfortunately there's not much you can do to prevent it. If the lighting designer has focused their side lights well, they will not hit the floor, so you can wait until (if) there is a lighting cue that is all side light with nothing else. That will make the floor disappear....

    Great images!clap.gif


    Hmm, he's not the first one who didn't like the rosin on the floor. Perhaps I can do something to downplay it in post. I'll keep that in mind with the next set of images. Mostly I like to show the floor as it helps show exactly what the dancers are doing.
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