As one shots... In the woods

I wanted to continue using fabric and dancers and try to make them as one. To get the fabric moving smoothly I needed it to be windy so the fabric would move freely with the wind.

I tried explaining the to the dancer how my aim was to capture an image and make it like the fabric and the dancer are as one. It was windy but compared when I photographed earlier using the fabric it was not as windy. Therefore, the fabric did fly as high but there was still a bit of lit to it. Instead of the dancer just letting the fabric flow against her skin she would keep wrapping it around her so the material couldn't be caught in the wind and on camera it looked too dark and did not have the same effect.





I showed the dancer an example of the work I did previously with the fabric and showed how if flowed from the body to the fabric. She understood more and let the fabric flow more. When photographing the previous dancer, I knew she was very flexible and could lend far back so I wanted to include her body as I had an image of how I wanted her to lean back and the upper half of her body become the material. Therefore, I wanted to try and use a different part of her body and as Sophie the dancer is flexible so she could lift her leg up and balance for a short period of time.

The image below is a final image I have chosen to use towards my project as I to me it looks like the fabric has turned into her leg and become part of her and that is what I am trying to aim for




After shooting several images and trying to achieve what my aim was I wanted to try to use different techniques using my camera. I asked the model to make a dance position using the fabric while I capture some images. I like the images so I put my shutter speed down so that the exposure would be longer. I zoomed in with my lens and has I captured the image I zoomed out as fast as I could giving the effect of the exploding as seen below



The night before the sky was light really well with the moon so I decided to go and see If I could capture any images in the dark and too see how they would turn out. I found it hard as I couldn't focus on the model and I could hardly see they dancer so I could not get her in focus properly. I asked Sophie to move with the fabric so I could get a long exposure of her and the fabric. Below it an example of what I captured. I added more exposure to the image in Lightroom so the greens are saturated



Below are contact sheets of the images I photographed with Sophie at night and in the woods