Over the weekend I played around during the final tech and dress rehearsals for Choreo Collective's
Current Collection. I photographed mostly from the wings, incorporating the sidelights to get a slightly
different perspective. Only once was I nearly run over by a dancer kicking and jumping her way offstage. :)
I had a hard time selecting a shot for my PAW. In the end I was drawn to the one above, despite it's technical "flaws.".
But as Henri Cartier-Bresson is supposed to have said: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."
I like this one, which is my alternate, in part because you can see the dancers waiting and watching from the wings.
The rest of my favorites from the shoot are here:
http://www.duke.edu/~ajs2/2005_ChoreoCurrentTechDress/index.html
The fabulous dancers are from: http://www.choreocollective.org/
Leica M2 wearing a 35/2 summicron lens and fed Fujipress 400 film (top).
Leica M6TTL wearing a 90/2.8 elmarit-m lens and fed Fujipress 1600 film (bottom).
Low-res Noritsu scan at Costco, minor adjustments in Photoshop.