bob parrish
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I have a dear friend who is a gifted choreographer at our college here in town. We've worked together on a number of dances where I would suggest, or play, music.
The other day she called and asked if I could take head shots of her dancers. I said no problem, I'd be happy to do it for her. We set up a time and all ten students came at once. We had 45 minutes to do all ten.
I asked her what her dance was about, or the theme, or something to give me an idea where to go with the pictures.
She said, "This dance is about beauty. I would like them to appear as beautiful in the pictures as they do on stage."
I said "okay." And thought, this will be difficult, as they all just came from rehearsal and were wearing sweats and stuff.
I asked, "anything else?"
She said, "yes, I would like the pictures to look like old hollywood photos."
and, she said, " I want them to look like they were on stage when the pictures were taken."
I told her that I wasn't really good enough to do that in 4 minutes per person and she was going to end up with pictures with blown highlights and crushed blacks.
She said, "you mean really contrasty pictures? Perfect. That's just what I want."
So away we went. 10 mostly shy, sweaty and messy looking students who were loaded up right after a dance rehearsal to get their picture taken.
Here is the before and after of one of them. This young woman was terrified of the camera and lights, sat down and just looked at me. I looked in the viewfinder and remember thinking that she was very beautiful, but didn't know it. I took only one picture.
Any thoughts, impression, or criticisms you may have are welcomed and encouraged.
Bob
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