Today I went out with Le'Tasha, another dancer to practise using fabric and to give her more of an understanding as to what I was trying to achieve. Below are some examples. I wanted to do something similar to what Rachael was trying to achieve so that the fabric was covering her face and the focus being on the fabric and her body. The fabric is meant to symbolise a lover and is telling a story.

The image below is to symbolise that the dancer is being abused. It was enspired by the poem below the image and how the fabric is her partner who is covering her and coming down on her and she is the fetale position and can't do anything as he is to be and over powering. The colours of the fabric sumbolised bruises as well and her lover.

A Mending To A Broken Heart

I Talk to him He talks to me. My heart, it swells And Begs to be Free. Does he know what's become of me? He hits and shoves Punches galore I know damn well, that it could hurt more. I try not to cry and not show the pain But deep down I know he's winning this 'game'. To me he's perfect but oh so very vain. I will never, ever over come this pain. I'm nothing but a punching bag, to quench his anger's thirst I grab my arm, and limp off to the nurse. She asks what's wrong I lie and say I fell. Why do I constantly go through with this hell? These tears are for him, and that I hope he knows. These emotions, this pain... why must it show? If I hide it away, I'd be lying to myself. He's abusive and cruel And my friends begin to worry They're afraid that he'll cause the death of me. It brings me to tears, because I know that they're right. They say "Step Up!" They tell me to fight! I tell them the truth "I can't" It would tear me apart. So I Walk off to my room, and try to mend my broken heart

The image below is the oppsite of the image above and the poem as it is showing she is breaking free and standing up to her lover and is more powerful than she thinks

Below are examples of images captured from that day that stood out to me but decided not too use

I feel her leg does not look correct because her legs look too white and needs to be stronger. Whereas she looks just standing I would like more strength and more performance

I like the use and movment of the fabric but not the movement of her hand it looks too blurry

Again I like the use of the fabric but not the colour of her legs

The movement of the fabric brings out the colour but I don't like the way the fabric looks squared and how it does look like a piece of fabric, I wanted it more to blend in

I tried a different technique of a wide angle images so you can see the tree but I feel that the dance disappears and does not stand out as much as I hoped.

Below are contact sheet from today photo shoot with Le'Tasha