
This photo is one that I captured in the fall of my Junior year at the dress rehearsals for the fall ballet show in the Jacobs School of Music auditorium. I thought it was a good image to use in this reading response because it demonstrates the idea of process, which is the main point of Freeman’s Chapter 6 in “The Photographer’s Eye.” During this photoshoot, in which I used an image from for the Chapter 4 reading response as well, I learned more than I ever had before about my camera and how photography works. I had to attend both showings of the dress rehearsal in order to get pictures that I was actually proud of. I wanted contrast and wanted to capture the light on the dancers skin but I had to learn that I could not do this by slowing my shutter speed because then I would not be able to clearly capture the dancers in their poses while they were quickly moving. This photo shoot taught me a lot about the process that goes in behind a photo, I knew what I wanted to capture and how I wanted it framed but I realized how difficult it was to capture the exact moments that I wanted as my subjects were moving faster than any subject I had ever shot before. “The fleeting moment” is what I wanted to capture and is what we learn about in Chapter 6. This image is an example of one of the first times I was able to capture a fleeting moment and all of its beauty, just before these two dancers fell right into another pose.