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here is some more new (or recent) work, this time for the dutch national ballet, several posters have just been completed or are under way…

the ‘4 temperaments’ series will be used as a series of five posters, which i’m looking forward to seeing

the ‘nutcracker’ is also finally finished, we first shot the dancers seperately, printed them on card and reshot it as a mini staged photography set…

‘ballet 4 all’ was made by shooting the same jump by a ballerina (on a trampoline) with three separate cameras, from three different angles and these three viewpoints were then later comped back together…

the ‘ballets russes’ poster (shown below) was shot as is (no photoshop just a man lying on a large custom-built lightbox), although this one isn’t yet finished (work in progress) the type still needs some refining…

the matchstick model (see below) is a test for a large abstract tree we are going to be using in the ‘giselle’ image which is being shot next week and we are also going to be finally doing an underwater shoot somewhere next week with a ballet dancer which should be fun… more news on that soon

(p.s. all images are by ‘ruud baan’)