kweide wonderland » Bahratanatyam

Rework it…

kweide — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:00:21 +0000

Well, today she asked me to rework one of my pictures i took from her, the girl from Udaipur. She asked me to do it in B&W. She asked for the strong, crispy and powerful conversion. Okay, so i did it and here it is:

Hope you like it as well as she and i do !

She does testing

kweide — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:13 +0000

It is not easy doing the impressive gestures indian dancer can do. It needs a lot of training and for european it is a challenging task to do like them. But she is a brave one and she is going to do it. Here i found her doing such facial test with a mirror.

OK, that is a way, esp. when clothed in original indian dance coustumes. She likes it much. And i have the chance to do some pictures :)

Test it

kweide — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:55:36 +0000

“I got to test”, thats what she said, while having a break. She looked some indian dancer pictures and films and saw their mostly static facial expression and their massive eye work, their support thru hands and gestures supported with arms and hands. She tried that a lot and had lots of fun doing so.

But a break is a break and while relaxing she is still thinking on what she had seen in the film, going thru the dancers positions, each by each, testing them in mind….

We are really interested in seeing her performing arts…

Concentration

kweide — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:34:44 +0000

New themes, new territory. Dance is the theme, indian dance to be precise. This is a very special theme where one need more. More costumes, more make up, more jewelry. The dance is totally different to the dance we know and it is not only the moves but facial expressions as well. So you have to study it before designing a scene

Olympus E-M5, M. Zuiko 60 macro, 1/160 second and one flash thru a softbox from my left side.

Ready for ….

kweide — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:59:52 +0000

Ready for the next step. It arrived. We are so happy to announce that our original indian dancer costume arrived. It is so beautiful in its colors: Orange, Green, Gold. Some jewelry is included. That gives us the chance to enter a complete new world: The world of indian dance, the world od Bharatanatyam, perhaps next Khatak and Odissi. Depends on the arrival of further costumes. The sizes are about european size 38 which should be M or L. We have to try out … Do you like it ?

Olympus E-M5, Summilux 25…