Image 3

IMAGES 1, 2 and 3 are all part of the set 'Portrait of a Ballet Dancer'. For these I created abstract portraits which focus less on ballet and more on the time in-between dancing and aim show something of the dancer's character. Image 1 (above) is a cyanotype (scanned) which I produced last year using digital and traditional methods. I have included Images 2 and 3 to show the differences which can be achieved in post-processing from one shoot. I chose to convert Image 2 into black & white and for the whole shoot I used 'red head' lamp with coloured gels (seen in Image 3). Since originally, cyanotypes were used to make blue prints for buildings this may be an apt approach (for the architecture of a city) to explore further.