H I G H S T R U N G
Aerial dancers hang out at Kew Beach Park in Toronto
Visit their web site at www.highstrung.ca and book them for your next event!
This page uses the stereoscope applet. Instructions are at the bottom of the page.
The High Strung troupe of trapeze artists, or aerial dancers as they call themselves, agreed to pose for a series of stereo photographs. Rather than shooting indoors, we decided to try an outdoor shoot, hanging the trapeze from a tree. I found an old silver maple in a park not far from my home, which had a strong horizontal limb at an appropriate height. The High Strung team brought a ladder and had the trapeze set up in no time.
I had intended to use a tripod but the only possible shooting position was flat on the ground, directly under the trapeze. This got me far enough away from my subjects to be able to keep everything in focus. This position also gave the best sense of depth and eliminated all background clutter except for the tree itself. I was shooting up into the light, which made metering difficult but the unexpected bonus was the way light highlighted the performers taut muscles.
All the images were made with an RBT X3 35mm stereocamera and Pentax zoom lenses set at 28mm. To maximize impact, the stereo window was set so that the acrobats came through the screen and the leaves and branches of the tree remained inside the frame. Enjoy.
Click on a picture to enlarge, then use the 'page up' and 'page down' buttons on your keyboard to change pictures.
Note: this page uses a java applet that works with most browsers
except Netscape on a Mac.
Click on a thumbnail and a new window will appear.
Your desktop menu will then have some additional choices,
to resize the images and change stereo viewing styles.
You can even view in mono (2D), if you don't have 3D glasses.
Problems? Let me know. Comments welcome.
Created by Simon Bell
Thanks to Andreas Petersik
for his great stereoscope applet!