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RX100IV I took this shot as a panorama with the RX100IV being held vertically in the "portrait" position so that I could capture the full height of the stage. It kind of looks like I used a fish-eye lens.
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Thanks! Actually, I'm an old washed-up dancer.aster wrote: You never told us you were a dancer as well as a photographer too which is neat.
Yes, the backstage experience during a ballet is very picturesque. It's one place that I can easily get totally absorbed in photography. However, it's not always quiet. When the ladies are exiting in one wing and then running in those pointe shoes to another wing for their next entrance, they sound like a pack of horses trotting across a cobblestone road.aster wrote: The suspense and the quiet before they are all engulfed by the lime lights and all rise on their pointy satin ballet shoes... They remind me of paintings by Degas's or Guan Zeju's ballerina/ballet paintings of the last century.
Thanks David!David Kilpatrick wrote: Great shots from backstage, Degas did use a camera (one of the first rollfilm rather than plate, I believe) and it's one reason for the distinctive poses, perspective and apparent intrusions or random cropping in his paintings.
smulnik wrote:Thanks Yildiz, Valerie, & JT!
Yes, the backstage experience during a ballet is very picturesque. It's one place that I can easily get totally absorbed in photography. However, it's not always quiet. When the ladies are exiting in one wing and then running in those pointe shoes to another wing for their next entrance, they sound like a pack of horses trotting across a cobblestone road.
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David Kilpatrick wrote:Still surprised by how good the RX100 MkIV back illuminated CMOS is. To keep up to date with other systems, I've switched from APS-C Sony to Olympus (and may not ever go back to APS-C Sony, only full frame - that's another story). Good though the Olympus 20 megapixel sensor is, when I do high ISO and general sharpness tests against the similar pixel count Sony 1" I am fairly sure there is little difference. I regularly use my RX100 MkIV at ISO 1600 with almost noise-free results.
Great shots from backstage, Degas did use a camera (one of the first rollfilm rather than plate, I believe) and it's one reason for the distinctive poses, perspective and apparent intrusions or random cropping in his paintings. At the time painters normally tried to contain and frame every element and would never draw just part of a figure - if you go back a bit further, it's funny to see how street scenes which in a photograph would have had half horses, half people and other stuff round the edges often had everything 'whole' and neatly inside the 'crop'! So, work in a great tradition.
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