A Midsummer Night's Dream / Boston Ballet

rutt

Here are a few scenes from Boston Ballet's staging of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream.


[size=+1]Nadezhda Vostrikov & Company[/size]
Canon 5d / 85mm f1.2
1/400th @ f/1.2 / ISO 1600


[size=+1]Kathleen Breen Combes[/size]
Canon 5d / 85mm f1.2
1/125 @ f/1.2 / ISO 1600


[size=+1]Yury Yanowsky, Lia Ciro, Tai Jimenez[/size]
Canon 5d / 135mm f2.0
1/60 @ f2.0 / ISO 1600


[size=+1]Lorna Feijóo & Gabor Kapin[/size]
Canon 5d / 135mm f/2.0
1/125 @ f/20 / ISO 1600

urbanaries

rutt wrote:

Here are a few scenes from Boston Ballet's staging of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream.


[SIZE=+1]Nadezhda Vostrikov & Company[/SIZE]
Canon 5d / 85mm f1.2
1/400th @ f/1.2 / ISO 1600

ohhhhhhhhh wow. what a shot. i always look forward to your posts. You have quite an arsenal of 'lightbuckets' and get the most phenomenal performance out of them.

kres

urbanaries wrote:

ohhhhhhhhh wow. what a shot. i always look forward to your posts. You have quite an arsenal of 'lightbuckets' and get the most phenomenal performance out of them.

+1

Great isolation of the subject in lowlight. I'm just a wee bit distracted by the framing, but not enough to surpress the "wow."

Seamus

superb photos.

Ted Szukalski

Let me add my bravo to the chorus of applouse: great photos

pathfinder

Very nice John.

I particularly like #2 and #4.

DanielB

rutt. you always have phenominal ballet/dance photos. and i'm always looking forward to them

you didn't disappoint my friend

HeldDown

I think they borrowed the Ass's head from the Washington Ballet... it looks very familiar to one I've seen before.

I'm working on a production of Dream now, so neat to see these. GJ.

rutt

HeldDown wrote:

I think they borrowed the Ass's head from the Washington Ballet... it looks very familiar to one I've seen before.

I'm working on a production of Dream now, so neat to see these. GJ.

I'm sure it's the very same head. The way these ballets work, when the company buys the rights for the ballet from the company that owns it (in this case The New York City Ballet), they get the use of the scenery, costumes, scores, &etc.

Owen

Incredible, as usual!

binghott

your excellent ballet work is consistent.

my favorite is the picture of kathleen. the fog on the ground looks incredible, i hope you have more shots with the fog like that.

these pictures are incredible, especially considering how little light you have. i mean, iso 1600 and f1.2, i don't know how these shots look that sharp.

ginger_55

Very Nice to see those ballet shots, Rutt. They are excellent as always, but nice to "hear" from you and know you are out and about, still.

ginger

Thiago Sigrist

wow!
Beautiful shots, rutt!

My favourite is #1, the composition is far from trivial or formulaic, and you also succeeded in making great use of the DOF control available to you. It's superb IMHO!

Thanks a lot for sharing these!
Cheers!

-- thiago

DavidS

Great captures. Well done.

El Kiwi

binghott wrote:

these pictures are incredible, especially considering how little light you have. i mean, iso 1600 and f1.2, i don't know how these shots look that sharp.

That's what I was thinking, too. I sure they've been well Margulised, but even so... amazing quality. Great shots all round, as always.