Tara Sengupta is a student at Anita Menon’s Anjali School of Dance. The purpose of the shoot was to create invitations and programs for the young dancers upcoming Arangetram.
An Arangetram is the debut performance of a Bharatanatyam student and only happens after years of dedication to the art. If you’ve never been to one I highly recommend it. I’ve seen many performances by students of Anita and have always been impressed by their preparedness and choreography.
Info for the performance:
Date: Mar. 27th. Saturday
Time: 4:00 pm (seating at 3:30 pm)
Location:
Performing Arts Center
PCC Sylvania Campus
12000, SW 49th Ave.,
Portland OR 97219
You can RSVP via email: info@anjalidance.com or call Anita Menon (503.705.2169). The event is free but RSVP is required
It will be a while before I can release more images as the client requested exclusive use until the invitations are ready.
Now for all you camera geeks! We had 2 hours to shoot before it got dark. We ended up with six different location settings and 450 exposures. I knew we’d need to move fast so I improvised and commandeered our baby cart. That’s a Profoto 7B pack nestled in there. My helpful assistant Mark stood in until the young dancer showed up. I used a 22″ silver beauty dish to the right for key and a medium softbox left for fill. The background was exposed just enough to get really good color saturation. The 300mm lens was chosen to give a really dramatic scene compression, I think it worked.
Camera setup: 5DmkII w/300 f/2.8 IS L. 1/160 second, f/10, ISO 160.
