Here I created a preset that I re-utilized on many of the subsequent pictures. I used a “modern5” preset in Lightroom to desaturate the pictures and then transferred them to Photoshop where I used the Analogue Efex plug-in app of the Nik collection. In these pictures as with other series I maintained the workflow that I found (or that found me) in order to have a coherent series for an outcome. And also the space where we took the pictures looks very different after the editing. But what happened was that they are very intensely processed so that sometimes it is not even recognizeable that it is her who is dancing. I thought, the pictures might look quite naturalistic and represent Sarah’s natural dancing style. The result is very different from what I had expected. But these pictures evolved effortlessly into colour and I just followed the path. I usually process my pictures in black and white and I have certain Photoshop tools that I use to enhance the blur effect. And out of this playing an editing process emerged that was very different from what I usually do with my pictures. One week after the shooting I sat down and started playing with the pictures that I had uploaded to my hard drive. With Sarah’s dance pictures (please read the previous blog article about the shooting with Sarah) it was a very interesting experience. I often try several different ways of processing them until I find one way that seems to be suitable. It is more as if I am waiting for the pictures to give me instructions about how they want to be treated. I don’t have a particular workflow or one particular way to plan the outcome of my editing. When I do a photo shoot, and particularly so when I shoot poeple I am waiting for the pictures to tell me what they want me to do with them in post-processing. So thank you heaps to my friend who made all this possible and who relentlessly supported me and organized so many events and photo shoots. I will report on particular photo shoots in separate blog articles. But particularly I could experience photography on a new and different level. So I had my share in the experience of being a tourist in Toronto and its sourrounding area. If you get further outside you will discover beautiful landscapes, vineyards, hills and mountains and beautiful picturesque little towns (for example Niagara on the Lake) that are worth a visit. There is absolutely no romantic feeling if you travel around Toronto in a 50 km radius. I realized that in order to go from Toronto to the surrounding cities like Oakville or Missisauga you don’t use country roads (as I had imagined) but huge highways with 5 to 7 lanes in each direction. So we visited museums, strolled through the city center, had a good look at Union Station, admired the Lake Ontario views and drove the 100 kilometers to the Niagara Falls and I behaved as a tourist in this megapolis is supposed to behave. In a city that you don’t know you want to go to the places that tourists are supposed to visit. Working with professional models appears to be easy and shooting people in the streets is a relaxed and cheerful experience. It seems that people in Toronto are very relaxed with regard to having their picture taken. It has been an amazing and very fulfilling experience. Having been starving photographically in the past year in Wellington, New Zealand (mainly with regard to portrait, nude and Inner Core sessions which were very difficult to organize there) I had high hopes that it might be easier to shoot in a big cosmopolitan city.Īnd after 10 days of experiencing the city, of shooting, of trying out and of working with professional models I can confirm that what I had hoped for really, really happened. The planning for this travel had been going on for many months with me contemplating photography in the city, shooting street, urban architecture and also models. I was invited by a friend (who decided to stay in the shadow and for me not to disclose anything about him/her).
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