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Published: 2006-10-04 14:47:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2828; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 35
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Well well well. I always loved this photograph. But originally I had been unable to remove the noise. Until the wonderful ~Araken-Starway suggested a magical tool by the name of "noise ninja" that might be able to help me along.
I downloaded the trial, and was absolutely thrilled with the results. So today I bought the license. And with pride I present the new, improved, dream-like version of the shot - thank you for viewing!
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Glad you, as a dancer, can identify with this. 
I'm a dancer too, I do ballroom at the moment. What kind of dance do you do?
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ballet, lyrical, hip hop, jazz, street jazz and contemporary.
sorry it took me so long to reply. I haven't been on in a while
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No prob. 
Wow, that's a lot! And which is your fav? I used to do Ballet, Jazz and Modern, but I stopped all three a couple of years ago and do Ballroom now instead. I miss Jazz though, and I realize now that Ballet is really good for your composure.
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i really can't decide which is my favorite. I love them all. The one I'm best at is jazz though.
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Funny ... the one I was best at was ballet.
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Mh, not really. I see ballet as a workout and a good foundation to build any dancing career on. And I miss being able to do all those things I used to be able to do when I did ballet regularly. But I don't miss ballet itself, if you know what I mean.
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yea totally
I'm probably the only person in my class thats doing it b as a foubecause I love it, the others use it as foundation
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So you're planning to become a professional ballet dancer?
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nope lyrical, I don't think I'm good enough to become a ballerina
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Becoming ballerina is though. You don't only need the skill, you also need the body ... and there's hardly anything you can do if you have the wrong body type. (Which makes me think of "Center Stage". Gosh. Loved that movie. And the guy there is hot as anything! 
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yea I know, I don't have the body...which is why i'm not going to be a ballerina
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great shot, great capture in the first place - the blurry sensation add a little to the feel.
however - as i have not see the original image - i can only give you an advice - read a few articles about noise on photos from some famous photographers.
you'll see what i mean.
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Thank you!
I can only guess which statement you might be referring to - I'd say, it's probably the approach of "Grain adds to the personality of the image". If this is what you're talking about, yes, there are cases where it's undoubtedly true. But here, where it's a very flowing, fluent composition and lives of the feeling of weightlessness, the grain just stood in the way.
It didn't help the image along - it held it back.
That's why I went and removed as much of it as I could.
Or were you referring to something different?
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I love it
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Thank you.
So what music do you imagine when you look at it?
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You're very welcome 
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(I recognize that line from your "Spring Ball" story, I think.)
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great motion and colors, the shot dancing itself
well done
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I didnt know what it is until i gave it a full view. Which is a good thing, i studied the shot and i must say im quite loving it
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Glad you are.
Yeah, it's quite abstract when viewed at a distance. Glad you weren't disappointed!
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I'm not a people photos kind of person, but this is really special!
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Beautiful work... I thought I was looking at a macro image of a flower at first...
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Glad I could surprise you a bit! Not so easy to do in this world, where everything seems to have been done and seen already. *smiles*
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How Beautiful! At first glance I thought maybe it was fabric under water or something, but then when I full viewed I was pleasantly stunned! Wonderful work!
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Glad I was able to surprise you.
Mhhh fabric under water, that should give some nice images too. Should try it.
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I know you have. That's cause you have such an awesome taste.
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dramatic photo!
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Glad you do.
Thanks so much! Yeah, there's a lot of drama in dancing. Shame it's gotten out of fashion.
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: O ug, I know what you mean. bouncing around is what people call dancing nowadays!
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is it a crop?
well, they are clearly two dancers, but there are other levels of interpretation. at a first glance, it is an abstract image: this is enforced somehow by the missing heads - hence the question about cropping.
but it also looks like a flower. i wouldn't know to say what flower at first, but i've read a comment where someone suggested an orchid, and it's just right. i'd add that it doesn't work only in the thumb. and this is why dark tones and unsaturated colors work so well here.
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No, it's not a crop.
It was a photograph I was able to capture by pure chance - I was sitting in first row at the swiss championships, and had my camera out; I was actually focusing on another couple some way off when these two danced in just the moment I triggered. My camera magically focused on them instead and I realized that this was better than the other shot by far; later (sitting quietly at my computer) I took the shot to photoshop, cut out the rest of the dance floor and replaced it with black; and this photograph was born.
I know what you mean about the flower, I see it too sometimes. Not always, but every once in a while.
I'm glad you enjoy the shot. It means a lot to me.
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i know what you mean. sometimes it's frustrating how we take a number of carefully planned photographs, just to discover that the best ones were not planned or were the result of pure chance. it happens often. here, the genius is to avoid being blinded by goals and acknowledge the chance. i think that many people would have thrown that pic away, if they were trying to shot something different. and i fear i could be among them
live shows, like dance contests and concerts, are a valuable training, since everything (lighting, composition, focus...) changes fast and sometimes abruptly. when i started to take pics at concerts, i had no idea on how to compose them and what the most interesting subject could be. the result was a number of plain. mean, trivial shots. sometimes, among them there was a good pic. concert after concert i learned from those results and now, if i am allowed to approach the stage and take pics from where i feel it's a good position, the number of interesting photographs that were planned (and turned out how expected) is usually higher than the number of just-lucky shots. however, not always by far.
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oooh...i am so sad thres the noise...
would absolutely loe it if there wasnt
clear it please...best to use program 'noise ninja' or so...
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The noise is a bummer, but I've not been able to really do anything about it so far. 
Glad you enjoyed the piece so much otherwise!
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nono trust me - these programs works! only take care to dont loose much details
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... done!
Thank you so much for the tip. That tool's absolute and utter MAGIC. I wonder how I was able to live without it for so long?
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yeah...this is the program which turns normal photos to pro ones . . .
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Mh, I wouldn't sign that statement. A pro could take a photo and it would turn out right without any editing. But the program is darn useful given that you shoot under suboptimal circumstances ... and sometimes you just don't really have choice. It's either take the photo or leave it - and then noise ninja comes in kinda handy.
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