Carina ballerina (Patreon)

There was this one time where I accidentally rented Schlosserger Castle outside of Budapest. I didn't really think through the consequences and compound cost of travel, models, hotel, local transportation etc. so I had to make it into a bigger thing to e able to afford it.

So I persuaded a couple of friends to come onboard and I arranged for us to shot as a fantastic studio, Flashback in Budapest for 2 days, and the Tura Castle for the third day.

So the first day we had 2 models in a huge white studio with white walls and magnificent windows, and here are the stuff I did with Carina On that day. There are also a couple of duo shots with Fanny ut the rest I will safe for another day.

Carina needed to break in her shoes (new pointe shoes are just unusable so need to be tenderised first).

I'm personally in love with the images of Carina in front of the big window, and I kind of like the one where she is wearing a tutu most, which is rare for me. But for ballet it just seems right.

The first 4 images is daylight with a large silver reflectors on either side to have the light  illuminate the sides of the model. The Duo elevator images I used a 3'/1m matte silver umbrella (French brand called Balcar but Paul C Buff makes something similar).

And the last two is daylight from a window - light changing with the clouds outside.

The two images on white background is a 9x9' (3x3m) scrim with a direct head shooting though.

I'll be back with more images of Fanny and the other days of shooting both at the studio and the castle.