LPS #5; on topic?

rutt

or even in the ballpark?



Boston Ballet company dancers in Balanchine's La Valse

Nikolai

rutt wrote:

or even in the ballpark?
Boston Ballet company dancers in Balanchine's La Valse

Ballpark definitely!

It also seems rather easy to move the rightmost dancer a bit closer to the left, thus providing a perfect spacing between them.

However, what I would personally consider a real winner is if you could have them lined up at a narrow angle towards you (almost blocking each other, but not completely) and get a closeup on the skirts only, maybe with the upper legs and lower torsos.

BistiArt

Brain Teaser

Nikolai wrote:

Ballpark definitely!

Nik,

Its a pleasure to literally 'see' you mind at work thru your comments...

Thanks for some provocative brain teasing!


Rutt, please follow up on Nik's idea; I would like to see the contrast in impression!

rutt

I guess it shows my personal artistic limitations, but I'm not going to do either of Nik's good ideas. What Balanchine has done, I'm not about to change. Ballet photography is like classical music; it requires a lot of technique to stay strictly inside the rules.

It also shows a legal limitation. Whatever I show has to be approved and it's not likely that the artistic director would approve a rearrangement of Balanchine's choreography.

I'll get a chance to shoot Giselle this week. I think Nik's suggestions are very good and very relevant. I'll try to keep them in mind while shooting that ballet. I'm pretty certain it contains some gauzy skirts:
http://www.stjames.co.nz/images/pics/giselle.bmp

I'm not supposed to move around too much once the ballet has started. But I'll try to rethink my lens choices and choice of angle.

Tessa HD

lps#5
Hi - I can't wait to see what you come up with! Ballerinas make great subjects.

Tessa