Bianca Robinson & Jasmine Davis

My 1st year dancers were Bianca Robinson and Jasmine Davis. They were friends and so they both wanted the same thing and wanted to be shot at the same time. I thought this would be good at first and make them feel less awkward if they had a friend in the studio at the same time but it ended up being a distraction. Also with these dancers it was very hard to arrange meeting up with them as something tended to come up on either side. Eventually though I shot them in the studio. The white background was left up from the previous shoot.

After taking a few headshots and looking back at them some of the shots the background was turning out grey which looked better. The dancers preferred it to. However when I started shooting I found it hard to keep the background grey in every picture as I wasn't sure what was causing it. I then turned off the backlighting to dim the background. Eventually I also ended up turning off one of the softboxes. To get the grey background I ended up having a very dark exposure on all the studio pictures so when editing I had to lighten the exposure first. I am happy with the result though and I think they show off the dancers well and showed part of their own style and attitude also which was part of the brief.

I changed the outdoors pictures to black and white as I love black and white photography and it was an overcast day again. Although some of the pictures looked fine in colour they just gained a bit of punch with black and white which was done using a preset on lightroom.