Dance 2

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Dance 2

Postby wendellt on Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:09 am

Sydney Festival event Mamootot by the famed Batsheva dance company

It was a really beautiful contemporary dance, lots of interpretive freestyling with lots of artistic direction

the scene was backlit and lowlit so i shot iso1600 1/250 f2.8, group dynamic AF-C pattern closest subject priority on the 70-200
i worked out though even with the predictive focussing i got lots of miss focuses, still working out which one is beter AFC- single area focus with lots of focus twiddling or the predictive focus group dynamic method

i increased levels to make the white background blow out, to give it that ethereal quality

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This is probably one of the best dance events at Sydney Festival
i'd watch it twice over
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/event.asp?typeID=-1&eID=23&type=all
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Postby Yi-P on Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:35 am

Great stuff Wendell :D


Looks like you still have more to learn off your D2X :lol:
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Postby Oscar on Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:56 am

Cool shots Wendell. And yes I agree with you they have an ethereal quality. Almost like the stuff I would expect to see in a new age sci-fi type of tale.
I like the "blown" b/g as it enhances that effect.

Perhaps you could have cropped the left hand side of the first shot a little and I think it would be a cracker IMHO.

Well done Wendell.

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Postby Alex on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:02 am

Very nice Wendell. I really like the last one.

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Postby kamran on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:03 am

Just great! Wonderful treatment! Looking at such fantastic images just makes me even more jealous of you! Keep up the good work.

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Postby byrt_001 on Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:24 pm

excellent, love dance photography. very challenging
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