Red Dancer

We still haven’t run out of photos from the festival weekend! This is a photo from one of the many stages; this stage was mainly dancers over the weekend. While we were at this stage we saw multiple dancing acts, this one was the last on the stage.

To freeze the dancers mid-action I needed to use a fast shutter speed, in this case I chose 1/250^th of a second. This was adequate to freeze the motion, and to recreate the atmosphere of being on stage with the dancers. As there wasn’t much light I had to use an ISO of 640, this allowed the use of the faster shutter speeds but unfortunately allowed some noise to be introduced into the shadows and dark areas.

While editing the photo I turned the highlights down to make sure the bright parts don’t white out. I also cropped the photo so there was less open ‘space’ above the dancer’s head. Cropping the photo also helps the composition, by making the dancer fill the majority of the frame. But also leaving enough in the rest of the frame to create the atmosphere of being on stage.

We still haven’t run out of photos from the festival and it looks like we won’t for quite a while yet. I hope we get another chance to do the photography at a festival soon, because it was a lot of fun and a good learning experience.

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Mat