{"id":872,"date":"2011-05-03T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:56:55","slug":"shoot-what-you-know-know-thy-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Shoot What You Know. Know Thy Enemies."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne of the things that we are focused on in the RC household is Dance. My wife Jenn is a ballerina, and taught all sorts of dance at a couple of schools in Long Island for 17 years. As much of what we did back home was focused on Dad, I figured that I could be a better partner by tagging along and making some frames during her major events. <\/p>\n

Yeah, that sucked. I got my start in doing portraiture, cutting my chops in a photo studio, with Flashes. Now, I was at an ‘event’. I was at the mercy of the lights, looking for moments in an art I had little actual experience in, with choreography I didnt understand. I always smile and wonder how much Jenn must’ve muttered under her breath when I showed her pictures that I was so proud of, that she just out and out thought sucked. I mean, she had been following McNally’s work just as I had.. we just didnt know that about one another yet (that’s another really cool story I’ll share another time). <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I figured, the best way for me to get better, I needed to do two things. First, I needed to immerse myself in the discipline that I wanted to shoot. I spent more time than I care to count researchign dance online learning the lingo- like what Fouett\u00e9 is and what to shoot on it, or a Grand Jet\u00e9 is. <\/p>\n

The next thing I needed to do is work on -what- would be interesting to shoot doing the dance. I started looking at things like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle and just become familiar with the stories. As I watched more and more dance, and watched Jenn do her thing, I learned a lot more about the choreography of things. As the choreography started making more sense, -what- to shoot got clearer. As that cleared up, I was able to get better shots. <\/p>\n

So spend some time. Know Thy Enemy.. you’d be surprised as to how much better you’ll do with your images. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the things that we are focused on in the RC household is Dance. My wife Jenn…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-shoots","8":"category-photography","9":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}