"The quality of the Hasselblad means there was very little post production needed. I simply enhanced the light on their dresses to bring out the detail and make it look more three dimensional." |
"A part of my photography during the last few years has involved dealing with modern and typically trained ballroom dancers as models. They've great control of themselves as well as an understanding of how you can go to town through movement. Most ballroom dancers have demonstrated to be effective underwater too the weightlessness enhanced their natural sophistication and magnificence.
“A couple of several weeks just before Hasselblad getting in touch with me to produce this underwater marketing campaign, I'd contacted the Royal Danish Ballet about doing an underwater shoot. As Hasselblad had quite unconventionally given me complete creative control, it appeared apparent to mix the 2.
"We arranged the 2-day shoot inside a pool in Copenhagen. Denmark, with three ballroom dancers in the ballet and choreographer Louise Seloy. Louise was there to make certain the movement from the ballroom dancers was simple to ensure that I possibly could focus on the lighting.
"I made use of two Profoto Professional 7A studioflash heads situated outdoors the swimming pool, pointing lower to ensure that the expensive diffused with the water. The primary problem this gave was synchronising the expensive while underwater, but we solved this having a couple of homemade cables. I needed the pictures to appear dramatic and theatrical, nothing like these were shot inside a pool, and so I needed complete charge of the sunlight. I simplified the sunshine using Profoto Zoom Reflectors to prevent it bouncing within the pool. To manage undesirable insights, we covered the edges from the pool in black waterproof fabric, but stored the whitened tiles at the base to mirror light look out onto the ballroom dancers.
"Because of the wavelength from the light travelling with the water, if you are using very contrasting, emotive lighting, you receive a large amount of digital noise within the shadow areas, unless of course you are using high-finish equipment. Dealing with Hasselblads such as the H3D-39and H3DII-50 appliances I personally use. means you've huge dynamic range, so that you can support the shadow areas but still get smooth skin color.
"There have been lots of variables to think about, like the pool size, what lengths the sunshine is from the surface and the depth from the model, as it is within the water in which you lose all of the light. I needed to focus on maximum energy after which adjust the aperture. The primary trouble with it was getting enough depth-of-area.
"You can't meter underwater, so while I have been doing the work lengthy enough to obtain an accurate exposure, we needed to perform a couple of test shots after which go back to the top to judge the histogram. Frequently it's difficult to inform the image was taken underwater image, so bubbles could be helpful to seize the viewer's focus, and so they enhance the feel of it being underwater. It is a little difference, though, as you wouldn't want it to appear like they are drowning.
“Trained ballroom dancers come with an amazing memory for movement, that is a real benefit. It’s impossible to speak underwater, so that all the skill direction from working using the dress as well as their expression, towards the position they required within the water, needed to be achieved before
they leaped in. They needed to remember an incredible amount and. in addition, handle being wet, that is one good reason classical ballroom dancers are perfect models. Even when very uncomfortable, they are educated to keep up with the same expression of peace and magnificence. I needed to speak calmness but for the models to check out ease, and that's why I requested many of them to consider the classic ballet pose of searching upright for the light and never to smile. The material from the dresses really was essential for making the pictures look dreamy and stylish. Besides the floating fabric look beautiful and aesthetically boost the movement from the model, it solves the greatest problem: buoyancy. Should you put such lightweight ballroom dancers inside a heavy dress, out on another adjust the buoyancy with floaters, they'll just drop right to the underside. We always had assistants within the water, though, just in case the ballroom dancers got directly into any problem.
"There's usually just one moment where everything all comes together, and that's why I personally use Hasselblad. since the cameras needs to be reliable. I can not manage to miss the best shot because of technical problems."
HENRIK SORENSEN : AMAZING GRACE
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