Clare is a multitalented lady with a ton of energy and good looks to boot. Dream model! She teaches yoga and also works as a choreographer, and needed photographs that showed her in both of her roles (not necessarily at the same time).
The yoga shots were a breeze to shoot- so many poses are so distinctive in their form. Making dramatic images was no problem at all.
Making images for choreography were harder to make at first. We tried searching for poses that suggest movement through the shape of the body, and in this, we did find some success. The real shooting began when we started moving. Clare started jumping, and the fun level in the room began bouncing with her. Because we were using flashes along with fast shutter speeds and small apertures, I was able to keep everything looking really sharp and contrasty.
Later, I slowed down the shutter speeds (around 1 second), and let Clare move while the shutter stayed open. The flashes froze some of the action, but the rest was mooshed into a creamy, smooth blur that really emphasizes the motion we were trying to communicate.
Throughout the shoot, I used mostly wide lenses- a 17-35 f2.8 and a 10-22 f3.5-?. The room was big (but not huge) and I needed wide lenses to get full length shots. The side benefit is the perspective stretching capabilities- if you get it right, the viewer can get sucked right into the image.
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