JAMES FEAR PHOTOGRAPHY SYDNEY PRESENTS - SYDNEY BALLET PHOTOGRAPHY

Client : Sequel Studios Alexandria.

Work Type : Website update

Type: Health and Fitness Photography Sydney.

Sequel Studios is a fantastic new dance studio based in the inner city suburb of Alexandria (right across the road from the new Metro Station).

Alison (the studios owner) were in discussions about how to promote her new ballet classes and wanted to create a series of high end fine art style photos that could be used for social media, the website, and at the studio in order to promote her classes.

For this look I worked with two of her very talented instructors Amber and Jade in order to create a find art style of shoot that focused on the art, skill, and creativity of ballet.

This shoot is done with 2 flashes, one is at ceiling height pointed at a 45degree angle and the other is a strip box directly to the side of each dancer acting as a fill. The material used in this shoot is designed to create a bit of drama and to add further movement to the shoot.

You can check out more behind the scenes on the below YouTube video.

JAMES FEAR PHOTOGRAPHY SYDNEY PRESENTS - MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY SYDNEY

SHOOT: Model Photography Sydney

LOCATION: Alexandria Sydney

MODEL: Marta

TYPE OF PHOTOS: This shoot was comprised of three different looks.

Look 1: High end vivid photography portraits using LED Lighting.

Look 2: Black and white portraits

Look 3: Fine art studio look.

For this shoot featuring the lovely Marta it was divided into three different looks.

The bright LED look is a combination of 2 LED RGB Soft boxes “stacked” on top of each other. Each light is positioning horizontally as opposed to vertically in order to split the light (again so to speak) and to create a little bit of a gradient style of effect.

Look 2 is a classic 90s style portrait inspired by one of my many heroes Peter Lindenburgh. The setup for this shoot is very simple; it’s a single LED light with an optical spot fitted and a few different gobos (things that make the pattern – used to be called Cookie Cutters if you are old like me). This effect isn’t hard, but it does require some patience.

Look 3 is something I have been refining for a few years now. It’s a black and white stylised editorial look using cloth backgrounds and materials. I think this look works best and with the unique look that Marta has, creating an urban look was very easy.

Its all done with one flash on the left hand side with a 120cm Octobox.

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