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Dunamix Dance, Murrieta, Ca

29-Jul-09

Dunamix Dance, Murrieta, Ca

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This was the shot that the ballet company chose to use. They now use it as the marquis image in all the promotional materials for the studio etc.

This was taken in my studio, and professionally edited.

She jumped, and whipped the fabric around for over 200 frames to get the fabric and the pose to look right.

The shutter speed doesn’t matter in the studio for freezing the action. The strobes freeze the action for you.

This will also end up in my iStock portfolio.

Tags: arabesque, ballet, ballet company, Dunamix, en pointe, studio, Temecula

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It’s all about the fingers

27-Jul-09

It's all about the fingers

I took several hundred frames of this girl, and I thought I had several keepers, and she kept saying, "My fingers aren’t right"

Tags: ballet, studio, Temecula

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How’s this?

26-Jul-09

How's this?

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I took this the other day in my studio in Temecula, Ca.

This girl owns a ballet company in the area, and she was fun to shoot.
She was quite flexible, that night we shot several hundred frames to get her winning image (not this image). I will post the image she chose in a few days.

The image was published in the company’s program.

For those of you that are wondering, the shutter speed was very slow, but the studio strobes froze the action. She was moving pretty fast when this was shot.

Tags: ballet, ballet company, studio, Temecula

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Freeway shooting

25-Jul-09

Freeway shooting

I was driving home last night, and decided to grab my rebel that was sitting in my back seat, and just start shooting through the front windshield of the car. After a few shots I was able to determine an exposure setting that was adequate. I shot about 50 frames, most were junk, but some were interesting. Isn’t that true with most shots?

Tags: freeway, freeway shooting, night

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Smile at the birdie

21-Jul-09

Smile at the birdie

I took my family to the beach, and I brought my old Rebel, and the "kit" lens that I bought it with back in 2006, so I could go out in the waves to take a few snapshots of my kids in the surf.

While I was sitting and watching my kids in the water, I noticed a photo session happening off to my right. They tried forever to get those kids to laugh.

Using my old Rebel, with a cheap Canon lens may just be the point and shoot I am looking for. I was considering the G9, but why bother if I already have an SLR that works fine?

I realize it doesn’t solve the "fits in your pocket" size, but I think I will use this for a while before I sell it.

Tags: beach, Canon, family, la jolla, snapshots

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