time is
dancing
Time is dancing; a project capturing the beauty of dance through graceful forms of the human body, highlighting its natural elegance and fluidity. Each frame tells a story of movement and emotion, celebrating the innate beauty of the human form in its most organic state.
Inspired by Ben Howard's ‘ I Forget Where We Were’ album from 2014, and Bill Wadman's slow shutter speed photography.
Before completing the first shoot, I reviewed Bill Wadman's work in more depth. Wadman used 3.2” shutter speed, f10 and ISO100. I presume that he used a large f stop to allow as little light as possible to enter through the lense, resulting in a perfectly exposed image. I experimented with different apertures and shutter speeds to find the perfect match to fit the location I used, along with trying Wadman’s settings to see if my camera could produce similar images.
After experimenting with the settings, I adjusted the intensity of the spotlight along with lowering the ISO to 200. The images above were taken with ISO 200, f 5.6 and 3”2. There was a copious amount of experimentation needed for this project which can be seen below.
The below are the final 3 images from the collection. With each telling a story about the bodies unique form every time it produces the same movement.
As a sub part of the project, I wanted to capture some still imagery of the jumps which the model could perform. Rather than focusing on the movement of the body, the aim for these were to capture it in a form which the human eye isn't able to see usually for more than a split second. The results are below.
