Re: [Leica] Summer Dance (Chicago) Photos

["Michael Volow" <mvolo@acpub.duke.edu>]

Looked at your pictures. Photographing dancers (in my limited experience) is
like photographing any motion sport. Make the subject fairly large in the
frame (hard to do with a 50mm lens) and use a motorized camera with a short,
fast telephoto to get multiple shots of a singlecouple moving. One in ten
shots may have an interesting, non-awkward, posture. Since the lighting is
usually poor in many dance situations you will have to circle around a
particular couple to find a spot where the lighting strikes them well.
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From: "Gregory Rubenstein" <gcr910@msn.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:48 PM
Subject: [Leica] Summer Dance (Chicago) Photos


>
> Group:
>
> Some photos from Summer Dance in Chicago. Mulling over cropping. All are
> full frame -- at the moment. My basic grumble . . . perspectives are
> similar. This, however, is a sampling; plenty more than what's posted,
> including band shots and spectators.
>
> Some background:
>
> -- Solo dancer shot with a Noctilux. Wide open. Motion is close, but not
> quite what I wanted.
> -- All others shot with a 24 Elmarit (ASPH). Wide open.
> -- Film: Top four on unabused TRI-X. Bottom two on Neopan 1600, exposed
and
> processed for 1600.
>
> Interested in on- and off-list comments about impact, lack thereof, ways
to
> improve, etc. No need for talk about online appearance and the fact that
> enlargements are only 3 - 4 times the size of the thumbnails.
>
> http://www.spiderjazz.com/gcr/summerdance/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Greg Rubenstein
>
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