Below are some images I captured from the shoot in St Annes on the beach with Hannah and David. I explain how I like the images and the meanings within them but also discuss how I can improve these images.
The routine that Hannah and David chorographed it based around a couple and the women is dying but her partner can't come to terms with loosing the love of his life.
When out photographing I asked David to hope the fabric and perform using the fabric but as he danced I felt that the fabric has no signicance to the routine and decided to capture more images of the two of them performing thier routine.
There was a pier of the beach so I tried to capture some images using the pier behind the dancers but felt that your focus was taken away form Hannah and again that it had no signficance what I was to relate to the viewer.
The two images below are images I liked but campared to the last two images I felt they were not as strong emotionally.
The image below is different from the two images above but again I found the surroundings distracting and Im not as engaged as the two I like the most. The image below is t symbolise that although the sun is shining they are in darkness.
The lats two images are the most appealing to the concept and poem I have found. They symbolise holding on and not wanting to let go. The first image shows emotion and holding on and she fades away and the second image shows how she is moving towards the light but he can't let go. I have invisioned panaramic shots that why they are cropped like that but next time I will go out with tripod and capture a panaramic image so that it does not need cropping.
Below are contact sheets from the shoot.
In conclusion I am happy with the images I have captured. I have decided not to use the fabric as I felt that the images were not as effected as I had hoped. Therefore, I decided that I would ask the dancers to perform there dance as I capture the image. The poem below is the poem I have decided to use and feel is a good explanation for the piece of work.
Holding On, and never letting go!
For a moment,
A cursed moment,
I thought of life
Without you, love.
And darkness,
Was all I saw
As my heart gave up
On love;
My breath
On life;
My mind
on sanity.
I made a
Mountain
Out of a
Molehill.
I allowed peeking eyes
And misunderstood words
To cause me to flee.
I left my love
Behind,
Wondering,
Wondering
And longing…
And myself,
I was dying.
My feet
Followed
Illusions,
Not our hearts…
And I
Nearly lost you.
If there were no God
No heaven, no hell,
Then suicide
Would have been my way.
For life without you,
Seems worse than death.
And without you,
I don’t exist…
You are me…
I am you…
My smiles… you are!
My love,
My wife,
Thank you,
My grip on you is tighter
I’m holding onto you!
I would never let go.
I love you!
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Leslie Alexis
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