Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 7 May 2008 in Art & Design and Portfolio.
This is the entrance area of NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in Sydney.
The costumes were designed by NIDA students, and were apparently used in a Chekhov theatrical production. The signs on the pedestals call this style "The Russian Middle Class", although no date is given for the clothing style. I've been told thta the styles for period costumes are thoroughly researched, and made strictly as they would have been then. This means, for example, that no zippers are used.
Some famous NIDA graduates: Mel Gibson, Baz Luhrmann, Judy Davis, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette.
See their website at:
http://www.nida.edu.au/
Taken today, 7th of May 2008.
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what interesting clothing
7 May 2008 6:48am
@Jennifer Radio: I can't remember the name of the production they're from. It's given on those cards standing at the base of each one. I'll check that when I'm in the area again tomorrow, and will then update the description.
OK... I've been back, and have now updated the description of the photo!
cool shot
7 May 2008 12:39pm
@Alun Lambert: Thanks!
interesting shot, I like how the table are aligned and the perspective of the cosutmes
7 May 2008 2:26pm
@Graham Russon: Thanks, Graham. The points you mention (plus the light) are exactly the ones that made it appealing to me while I was studying the scene before raising the camera to my eye. I then only needed to take the one shot.
Bonita foto con una luz muy buena. Me asombra la ausencia de ruido con ese ISO tan alto. Un saludo.
7 May 2008 2:30pm
@Julio Pulido: Gracias Julio. Sobre el ruido, la 40D no produce mucho ruido a alta sensitividad de ISO, pero para reducirlo aún más, en Photoshop CS3 Camera RAW, usé reducción de ruido con color 25 y luminancia 28.
neat. like the lines and composition, but especially like the light.
7 May 2008 5:54pm
@danthro: Thanks. The light was just right that afternoon.
The costumes look very authentic......as I've seen plenty of theatre performances of that period in Russian history, I consider the costumes pieces of art! It takes time to research, dedication and great talent to manage these things!
8 May 2008 11:17am
I like the composition and lighting of the photo - you might imagine, I see a lot of costumes :) Going ultra-authentic - understandable for Chekhov - is rumored to help the actors' imaginations. (Often we use Velcro instead of zippers to make it even easier to get in and out of costume). But I love the way you're framed the image so the mannequin seems completely at home.
10 May 2008 7:14pm
@Ken McCoy: Thank you, Ken. The lighting was the result of good luck in passing by at the right time. I'm particularly happy with the composition, because (as I've said in my reply to Graham), I studied the scene for a while before raising the camera to my eye, and then was very sure I had it after only one shot. I don't usually work this way, you see. (In postprocessing, I only cropped a fraction from the right side, although I did straighten the verticals.)
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