Sharon Blance Christchurch Photographer

Archive for July, 2010

Behind-the-scenes video of promo dance photography

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

My previous post was about a shoot I did recently to create promotional studio portraits of a couple of very talented swing dancers. My assistant, collaborator and general partner-in-crime Brence Coghill came to assist with the shoot and ended up filming a lot of behind-the-scenes footage (on a Canon IXUS point-and-shoot, for those of you [...]

Promotional dancer portraits – swing a ding ding…

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Portraiture is my favourite type of photography, but my absolute favourite-est types of portraits are promotional shots for performers – dancers, acrobats, circus folk – general ‘show biz’ kind of stuff. I had the great fortune to do a hugely fun dance shoot recently with Jess – she works as an event organiser but her [...]

Real estate photography – and why real estate agents are not photographers

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

A good friend of mine just bought her dream house and is looking for renters for the smaller house that she owns and has been living in for two years. She signed up with a real estate agency to advertise her rental, and while talking to them on the phone, asked if they had a [...]