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Dance in Focus – Exhibition

The morning after the Canada Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square, I had a client meeting in London’s Angel Building, so I stayed in town and checked out the Dance in Focus exhibition in City Hall. It features photographs taken during a two day dance photography workshop run by Chris Nash that I attended in May. Two of my photographs feature in the exhibition, which runs until the end of June, and is part of London’s Big Dance and Dance in Focus events. I shall be posting more of my photos from the workshop soon.

"Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness", in The Angel Building
The Olympic Rings on Tower Bridge

My photograph of dancer Brett Murray
My favourite photograph of dancer Emma Fisher

"The Navigators", in Hay's Galleria
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Cambridge Ballerina Project – Zoe & Gabrielle

This was the fourth Cambridge Ballerina Project shoot in a week, all queued up waiting for the weather to improve. Zoe was also in this year’s show, and has a twin sister Gabrielle visiting from New Zealand. Both are equally well-trained ballet dancers, so a twin shoot presented great opportunities for symmetric poses.

See the rest of the photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/453/ and become a fan of the Cambridge Ballerina Project on Facebook.

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Cambridge Ballerina Project – Yi Yi

Yi Yi is another dancer new to the Cambridge University Ballet Club, whose abilities shone in the show this year. As with Ana‘s shoot, the weather and exams prevented our shooting together until the day before she left Cambridge for the summer. Luckily, after weeks of rain and cold, the weather suddenly warmed up, so we arranged a dawn shoot so we could shoot in town without anybody about. Towards the end of the shoot at 7am, someone cycled up to us and asked if we were taking photos for the Cambridge Ballerina Project, and said he was a fan of the Project :)

As with Kizzie’s shoot, the first photo below was taken with my iPhone and processed with Instagram.

See the rest of the photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/452/ and become a fan of the Cambridge Ballerina Project on Facebook.

 

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Cambridge Ballerina Project – Kizzie

Kizzie is the new president of the Cambridge University Ballet Club, and while that doesn’t automatically lead to a Cambridge Ballerina Project shoot (Lara, Hanna and Helen have all been on the committee), Kizzie did shine in this year’s show. She’s a student at Robinson College, one which I had not yet photographed for the Project, and it is almost entirely made up of red bricks, making for some very strong photos.

This first photo was taken on my iPhone and processed with Snapseed and Instagram, as the photo of the day for my #366project. It managed to bring out dramatic detail in the sky, as well as being much quicker and easier to create than my usual DSLR – Lightroom workflow. Most of the rest of the photos below were post-post-processed with Instagram, as I’m a big fan of the square format as well as the colour-processing.

See the rest of the photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/449/ and become a fan of the Cambridge Ballerina Project on Facebook.

 

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Cambridge Ballerina Project – Ana

I noticed Ana at the barre during a ballet class taken by Glory, and was keen to arrange a shoot with her. Weather and availability conspired against us, so we ended up having to shoot on the day before Ana’s last exam, in windy overcast conditions. Not that you’d notice from Ana’s composure.

See the rest of the photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/448/ and become a fan of the Cambridge Ballerina Project on Facebook.