So I ran across something on Pinterest a few weeks back... "Dancers Among Us." It's a photography series by Jordan Matter in which Jordan goes all over the place with his camera and shoots photos of professional dancers doing INSANE dance moves in everyday-life scenarios. I'm in love. I'm in awe. I'm also impatient for the book to finally be published! It's due to hit book stores in the Fall of this year... I can't wait! Matter's blog can be found at: http://blog.jordanmatter.com/. He shares several of the pics on his website too!
I love this because I love dancing and photography... At the point when I first ran across Matter's work, I knew I wanted to play with dancer photographs, but I' never really tried. Now I have to! There was a while that I really wanted to photograph dancers in old church sanctuaries, and beautiful outdoor scenes with dancers are sure to be a win as well. But lately, I've started rolling around a new idea: dancers in trees. Jordan Matter has one beautiful picture of a dancer leaning back on a long tree branch with her leg up in an attitude... it's very pretty, but I wanted to take it a step farther. I want to find a way to photograph dancers dancing in the trees! I had no idea how to make this happen until my photography date with my boyfriend (yeah, the one where my shoes got dirty). He boosted me up into a huge oak tree...
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| Richard looking at the tree.. |
A few days later a found another spot; this one is more of a "tree house." It has 4 or 5 plywood platforms at varying heights—can anyone else see where I'm going with this?? Multiple dancers! The wood isn't sturdy, so no jumping, but there is still potential for epic posing.
Now I guess I just need to find some willing dancers! Good thing most of my friends are ballerinas and swing dancers!
Wow! That would be fantastic. Make sure you get the shot first time though. They might break a leg. Hehe.
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