Dancing on a Saturday afternoon

Once again, something very different. I originally got inspired to shoot some dance orientated photography because of a couple reasons. Firstly, I love to dance. I dont know if I'm good at it or if you can even be "good" at dancing. Secondly, the movement of the human body is something that has always fascinated me. Whether it be sports, posing a model, shooting portraits, or taking snapshots, the body expresses a lot.

The natural shapes, angles and asymmetrical lines and forms are something unique with each one of us. I had never shot any dance photo's before today, its pretty difficult. I thought that I could use my 7D and just motor-drive my way through all the blur of the fast movement. But actually I want to carry some of the movement throughout the pictures. I shot this all on my 5D Mk2. Another reason aside from the full frame sensor is the better ISO performance. This camera does magic in low light, The ISO 400 - 500 files straight out of camera looked on par if not better than ISO 250 files out of the 7D.

I asked a friend of Elisabeth's, Vilde, if I could tag along and watch and shoot some frames while watching them practice. It was really cool to see the energy and movement that I had imagined come to life in a studio. Thanks Vilde and everyone else whose name I don't know.

Enough with the nerdy stuff. I hope to put a shoot of some sorts together in the near future utilizing the dance aspect to my advantage. I have some ideas and would love to put them into motion soon. Anyway, here are some pictures. There are a lot of them, as I was really not in the mood to make crucial decisions. Boom, N.

Happy feet.