Wonderful work! However, I recommend toning down (lower its transparency and not using red) your logo as it immediately draws the eye toward it, instead of to the photo.
Ipanematom wrote:
Wonderful work! However, I recommend toning down (lower its transparency and not using red) your logo as it immediately draws the eye toward it, instead of to the photo.
Thanks! As for the logo, I like it exactly as it is. I can understand others would want a more transparent logo, but that's not me.
Neddie Seagoon wrote:
Fabulous work, as usual. 12, 17 and 21 for me, love the 4 dancers in midair.
A question, if I may, about your framing choices. I understand that most of the emotion from a dance comes from body forms and positions, but surely not all. Why not a close up facial expression or two? Understand that my stage shooting is straight theater where faces are emphasized more so my perspective is slightly different from yours, still, wondering why you've made the choice to stay all full body framing.
Thanks again for sharing your excellent work.
I agree with you. I like the tight shots that focus on the facial expressions/emotion. However, in the ballet world, they prefer the full-body shots with a little room for the space to breathe, as opposed to the tighter shots. There may be some (or a lot) of dancers or dance companies that like some tight shots that focus on the face, but largely speaking, the focus is on the full body in ballet.
Ron with the risk of sounding like a broken record from the previous comments made in this thread, these are all fabulous, you are a real master with these lighting conditions. Every one of my pictures of these would have been "artistic" blur shots. My favorites are 9, 17 and 21.
Good gosh, Ron. One image of this caliber is bearable. A full and large set... so powerful... overwhelming. So much to compliment but what I felt most looking through it all was your timing.
You brought it. You nailed it.
Best,
Chuck
And I don't even see your logo in these - once I read the comment I had to go back and find it. Such is the obscene intensity of the work.
Ron,
9, 12,17, and 21 are my faves. Some very artsy lighting that I enjoyed. Was it the set/manager/director's or yours? Either way, your exposures are great.
Two constructive nits:
1. I find many of these shots have too much dead space and I would crop tighter and wouldn't hesitate to use nonstandard aspect ratios.
2. There were two or three shots that I feel didn't work because of the obstruction of one dancer's face by another dancer.
Thanks, Guy! Shooting the performance, the lighting is set by the choreographer and stage manager. Appreciate the nits. Yes, I do stick to standard aspect ratios and I agree with you on that. I stick to the ratios because I sell the images to the parents/dancers and it's easier to crop to their print size when I keep it to a 2x3 ratio.
