On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a series for a magazine article about Myrna > Galle, a local dance teacher. Myrna is a former > soloist of the NYC Ballet and was a member of the > Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She also coregraphed many > Broadway shows and was the lead dancer in the touring > show of "The Music Man." Currently she teaches ballet > at the Grass Valley Center for the Arts. > > I went down last Friday and photographed Myrna and the > dancers in two separate classes. It was a challenge > but it was a lot of fun. I had gone out the Friday > before to scout the location and see what I was up > against. Too high a ceiling in the first studio made > wireless flash with umbrellas the best solution (pink > walls weren't much help for bounce flash). A entire > wall of mirrors in both studios allowed for shooting > the dancers from their reflections, but keeping myself > out of the shot when shooting toward the mirrors was > tricky. This was easier in the second studio with a > lower, white ceiling so I could use a camera mounted > flash pointed up and backwards. > > K20, K10, (2x) 540 flashes + boosters, two stands with > umbrellas, DA* 16-50, DA 10-17, A85 1.4, FA 31 ltd. > > http://www.primelensphoto.com/the_dancers/index.html > > I'm still futzing with these selects and editing them. >
Great stuff, Brendan!! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
