Studio Work- Testing lighting and camera/editing techniques

I wanted to try and use different styles of lighting and camera techniques to see what images I could produce. I continued to use the ballet dancer after I had captured her using the film camera to capture alternative ballet moves.

I continued to use continuous lighting so it was quite high key lighting and asked her to dance. As she was dancing I captured a few different positions as she continued to move freely to the music. The image below is one I captured.

I then wanted to capture different moves so that I could overlap them using software. As I asked her to make these positions, I directed her to be stiff and powerful as if she was performing to an audience. I left my camera in the same position and captured three separate images of her and overlapped them using photo shop.

As I overlapped them I noticed that there was an overly thin, narrow part in her stomach that looked unnatural in that it made her stomach look too small. Therefore I decided to burn the black so it stood out more and made the background more white as seen below

Below are images from the day's photo shoot