With an impressive set of credentials (Bosnian and Serbian National Ballet companies, anyone?) and a great attitude Josh made the shoot great fun as we experimented with some more contemporary and less classical poses. Having shot poledance fairly solidly for a while now it was both a refreshing change and a challenge to be introduced to an entirely new vocabulary, as well as having the freedom to move around the entire backdrop!

I will never cease to be astonished by the power and grace of male dancers, to say that I’m envious would be a foolish understatement – it’s hard not to be impressed by what the human body is capable of when you push it to its limits.

We worked through some lighting setups with some new modifiers, and I did a little experimentation on backdrop texturing and replacement to explore the viability of those techniques on larger shoots.

I was shooting without an assistant which meant I was running off just the laptop in the peli site case, without the external monitor I’d normally use on larger pole groupshoots. The setup works really well for review and selection, and I’ve got plans to work on it further to make it even more flexible.

A really fun afternoon with some wonderfully dramatic results!