I have had the opportunity to photograph many dance concerts over the last few years. This is all because of my wife. She is a dancer. Currently she is the dance teacher at Canyon View High School, this is her second year there. In addition to taking photographs, I have done a little bit of graphic designing. Mainly dance concert posters and programs. Again because of my wife. I enjoy doing it. It is fun to do something totally different, yet not completely unrelated to photography.
I just completed this year’s spring dance concert poster. Yes, the dancer in the poster is one of my photographs. Normally, I don’t like to take my photos and completely destroy them like this, but sometimes it is necessary. In this case, the high school has no budget to print a good quality, full color poster. What ends up happening is a master copy is made, and then someone takes it to the high school’s copy machine and reproduces hundreds of copies. An actual photograph looks like crap when run through a copier, so simplifying it like this gives it a fighting chance. Also, dance photos tend to use a lot of black ink, so they appreciate it when I design something that is a little less ink heavy.
The main goal here is to create something that will grab the attention of someone passing by and immediately say “Dance” in their mind and give them the pertinent info.
Here is the original photograph.
