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The Dancer

kweide — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:09:27 +0000

After her performance, exhausted, she sat down, feeling the warm sunlight on her back, just relaxing a bit. Regenerating for the next performance. Yes it is as it is. Your model has a break, you never ! It is you to catch the moment.

It is your task as photographer, as observer as well to watch the scenes, to decide whether to take a picture even while a break. Olympus cam used as always.

More from Udaipur

kweide — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:56:54 +0000

Another example from the ongoing series “The girl from Udaipur” This time in massive black and white. Bold contrast, diffused structures and details while shooting thru glass and a glasspattern as overlay to get a scratched effect to the picture. Yes, it is hard to do such to a picture so wonderful sharp and rich in details but this is wanted to get a painterly effect.

Hope you like it, like she does. Olympus E-M5….

The girl of Udaipur

kweide — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:09:58 +0000

Or is it the princess in her rooms ? Playing around with her veils ? DMoving, dancing, feeling happy and free ? I dont know but it was a great fun shooting such scenes. It is easy, as told in former threads. Giving her a playbook, a scene, a role or just an idea where she can perform, guess what, she will do, she will perform and interpret it her way. The only thing you have to do is motivating, comment, give small hints or advices. And let the scene flow. Be surprised and shoot like hell …

Olympus E-M5, Summilux 25 mm @ f1.4, ISO200, 1/160 second and one single flash thru a Softbox

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.

Always two

kweide — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:06:41 +0000

Well, the break was short and the dance floor saw me back on my knees, shooting scenes full of running wild dancers.

Dancing together, asking for even more …

and if it is only a fly-by….

Jump in

kweide — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:25:17 +0000

And suddenly he jumped into the dancing scene. It was like an earthquake. His performance was simply stunning. Me, still on my knees, simply firing shot after shot.

Inside an excessive dancing crowd with loud oriental music in my ears, impossible to hear anything else but this charismatic and inflaming exotic pipes and drums….

This was such a moment where i fully trusted my Oly-cameras, my Zuiko lenses and my trusty Metz flash. Full of sweat, exhausted, with a dry throat i was so happy when even the music band had a break for refreshments ….