ONE.THREE by Fish Bowl - Dance Performance

This week I had a dance piece to film and photograph as well. Quie prowd of my turnaround. Pictures were published on the same day as the performance and the video the next day. I love photographing dance pieces because of the lighting. And the center piece of this peticular performance was the light. Maddy who produed the piece is doing light design for her degree show, so this was the main piece and she has another 6 to do, so emphasizing the use of light in these pictures was crucial. I think I was successful in doing it. She is very happy with the pictures which is all that matters

MAke>shift 2011

The MA Dance students held their performances on a Saturday and I was asked to photograph them. It was such a nice experience running around from a performance to the other and go home inbetween for a break and to edit the pictures. This project is one of my prides so far, as I edited and delivered the pictures to the 5 performers on the same day at their afterparty.

I believe that in this industry you need to be as fast and professional as possible, and to keep the 'client' if you wish, happy as in any other industries. With photography is just a bit harder now because anyone who has 500 pounds can get a DSLR and call themselves a photographer and ask for less pay. Of course experience is important but very often people will look at expenses instead of quality. This is why my technique in being successful is to get the pictures back within 24 hours.

But above all this, I loved the buzz of having to photograph five performances in one day, especially because they were all so different.

Man-Kind dance performance

Pictures from a contemporary dance performance called Man-Kind