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Beach ballet taken at Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast Australia, perfect budding ballerinas enjoying the sun and the amazing day we had shooting images
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Beach ballet taken at Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast Australia, perfect budding ballerinas enjoying the sun and the amazing day we had shooting images
It was hot so so hot yet they never wavered in their photo shoot only stopping for icees
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2 Comments |
sisirakumarabandara
 
sisirakumarabandara May 12, 2013
Beautiful shot..
AlanJakarta
 
AlanJakarta January 02, 2015
Wonderful image. Congratulations on being the People's Choice Winner.
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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken near the war memorial in Surfers Paradise Queensland Australia

Time

The photo was taken at around 11am, I wanted the beach to be a perfect light and I got exactly what I envisaged

Lighting

It is all natural light, it was a perfect day

Equipment

This was shot on a Nikon D500,with an 18-55mm f/11.0 lens, no other equipment was used

Inspiration

I had a vision of ballerinas by the beach as my daughter studies full-time ballet, I put a call out on Facebook asking for ballerinas and I got these amazing girls, my vision became more then reality in the shoot and the photos are amazing

Editing

No the lighting was so perfect that I just enhanced the image, no other processing was used - it was a brilliant autumn day on the Gold Coast and perfect conditions

In my camera bag

At the time in my bag I was still a newbie practising what I loved and had the Nikon D500 body with two lenses, I have since upgraded to the Nikon D610 with a 28-300mm lens, so I carry the 18-55mm lens as well a 50mm and a speed light SB 700

Feedback

Plan ahead, I always plan the shots I want to take, the Gold Coast is unique in that its weather is pretty much perfect all of time and I love shooting dancers, the timing has to be on all the time, it helps having these amazing models that are at the top of their game and work together so well, plan plan plan, I chose a really hot day which helped in my colours

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