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Photography, Prints

April Print of the Month

My pick for the April 2021 Print of the Month is entitled: Aerial Hoop shapes III

Photography

Em – Silk hanging (NSFW)

Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght — Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series

Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - monochrome image of an aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght — Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series

Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial silks photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght — Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts series

Aerialist: Em Theresa
Lighting: 3 x Studio flash fitted with soft boxes
Location: Natural Light Spaces
Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Lens: 24-70mm.
1/100sec @ f /11.00. ISO100

To collaborate with Aerialists in order to capture their skills is a real challenge. Em Theresa the Aerialist featured in these images makes these poses look effortless and easy, but they are not.

It requires core strenght and concentration to hold these poses while hanging from the suspended silks several metres from the ground.

The biggest challenge for the photographer is to know when to capture the image, to show the artisty and skill that the aerialist is displaying as she holds the pose.