Stage Photo Shoot with SEST

SEST stage photo shot

This was a great photo shoot I did with SEST  The Stockholm English Speaking Theatre.

The guys have been excellent and I managed to shoot the whole time without having to stop them which kept the flow going and resulted in very natural looking  pictures. the tricky issue with stage photos is that the lighting on stage is not made for photography but for giving the right atmosphere during the play. This means it is not generally even throughout the stage and when the actors move around they are constantly moving in and out different lighting conditions.

So, this was somewhat challenging technically but very rewarding at the end. And SEST liked the result very much .-)

Here is some of the pictures.

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Images and theatre

I recently started an interesting project. With a small but very creative and innovative theatre production I have started producing images to be included in the theatre representations. As I write, I am working in finalizing the post processing of the images to go with a Pirandello piece, The man with the flower in his mouth, a short and intense story telling the emotions and reflections of a sicilian man facing a cancer diagnosis. The man is dying, and finds himself talking to a business man to whom he tells his new perspective upon life.

The images are going to represent  his new perspective and together with music from the sicilian tradition are ought to be setting the audience mood to receive the two men’s dialogue.

Interesting experience. iIt s not everyday work for a photographer to put in images the words written for the stage. Usually we work either on personal project where we have complete freedom to explore our ideas and connection with the subjects, or under a commercial customer assignment we usually stick to its creative vision with varying level of creative freedom, depending on the customer. In this case you need to be true to the author message but at the same time interpret it and put your vision into the image. A new level of creative freedom with constrains which I found really intellectually stimulating.

Here are some of the images run during the show. Go to the projects section of the site to see the full project.

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Coming out with photography

Why another photographer blog? What will this add to the humongous number of photography resources on the worldwide web?

…..me, my creativity, my vision, my meanings, my self expression.

Every single photographer has or rather ought to have his own vision, his own story and his own self into his images. Everybody can take pictures but only you can take your pictures,  and if you have something to say you will find someone that wants to listen to you. Great authors will always find an audience and an interest for their work, and so will great photographers.

This blog aims at becoming my notebook as I journey thorough my photographic life. I will note down the why and sometimes the how I embark on my personal and commercial projects. The what I want to say with my images and the whom I mean to speak to with my projects.  My successes, my shortcomings, my frustrations, my dreams will guide me through this path in discovering what the images can communicate and how I can  use it to vehicolate my vision of reality.

I hope you will find the journey interesting and share yours with met too.

 

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