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When you gotta dance, just dance!

DMC-GX8

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 200 Shutter 10/2000 Focal Length 230/10

upload_date

Apr, 2018

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Awards

Contest Finalist in Elegant Fine Art Nudes Photo Contest

Top Shot Award

Featured

Peer Award

+148

Absolute Masterpiece

+28

Top Choice

+28

Superb Composition

+21

Outstanding Creativity

+11

Magnificent Capture

Superior Skill

All Star

Genius

Virtuoso

Emotions

Impressed

+14

Happy

Relaxed

Behind The Lens

Location

This shot was taken in a snall studio with a simple, basic light set up aimed at lighting only one side of the model. Monochrome seems to produce such a good atmospghere when shooting artnude. Much more interesting than colour.

Time

The nice thing about shooting in a studio now and again is that everything is under your control. No need to worry about anything outside. best to shut out the weather and the time of day and invent your own world.

Lighting

I wanted the shot to be obviously nude but without all the unneeded detail. Pushing the lighting to illuminate one side much more strongly than the other helped with this, making a somewhat mysterious atmosphere.

Equipment

I shot this with my Lumix GX7 with an Olympus Pro 12-150 lens set at about 25mm. Flash was provided by Godox with two rectangular softboxes. The background was a grey roller backdrop.

Inspiration

I love movement and dance and wanted to capture how the body moves rather than how the clothes moved. Shooting a beautiful and talented model was a bonus!

Editing

This didn't need much post-processing. A little tweak to take out a few marks on the backdrop and a litte darkening round the edges of the frame to help centralise the main subject.

In my camera bag

My bag....because my little mirrorless camera is so small and neat I can fit a lot into my bag. A drink, a sandwich, a packet of mints and ..oh yes...my camera, usually with the 12-150mm lens attached as my go to lens. I prefer to be mobile rather than weighed down.

Feedback

Play. Remember that the camera always lies and that's our licence to create not only the images we see, but also those we imagine. Don't always have a fixed, preconcieved plan of what you want. Be prepared to experiment, explore and see what happens, especially when working with models. Too much direction can easily stifle someone who knows better than you do how they move and what their limits are.

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