Photographing the Shattered Windscreen presentation of La Ronde was always going to be a challenge given that it was a promenade production that took in 6 separate locations during the show. Some of these were small and intimate spaces, whilst others were fairly open - one was even outside!
The show itself is a fairly risqué tale, focusing on sexual morals and class identity, all set in the late 1900s. Each scene involves a pair of characters and a 'brief encounter' which the audience are allowed to witness; the same characters appear in multiple scenes and so it is not until the end of the production that audiences are able to complete the full narrative.
Given the intimate locations and the subject matter of the play, I elected to shoot it in a voyeuristic style; something the company looked slightly puzzled about when I tried to explain how it would work. I had to use a high ISO and felt a little uneasy pushing the XT1 to 3200 but liked the grain effect the mono images produced; they also tied in with the voyeuristic elements I was looking to create.
The show itself is a fairly risqué tale, focusing on sexual morals and class identity, all set in the late 1900s. Each scene involves a pair of characters and a 'brief encounter' which the audience are allowed to witness; the same characters appear in multiple scenes and so it is not until the end of the production that audiences are able to complete the full narrative.
Given the intimate locations and the subject matter of the play, I elected to shoot it in a voyeuristic style; something the company looked slightly puzzled about when I tried to explain how it would work. I had to use a high ISO and felt a little uneasy pushing the XT1 to 3200 but liked the grain effect the mono images produced; they also tied in with the voyeuristic elements I was looking to create.
Fuji XT1 - with 60mm
1/25th sec @ f2.4
ISO 3200
1/25th sec @ f2.4
ISO 3200