La vita è bella

This past Monday morning I met up with Athena Nesti, Isabella Larsson and Li Johansson at Karlaplan in Stockholm for a ballet photoshoot. There is a beautiful big fountain in the centre of the circular pond that we were planning to use as a background. The sun was only lighting the top part of the water stream, but as the sun moved its rays reached further and further down and after half an hour or so it was illuminating the entire pillar of water.

Athena Nesti. I brought the Nikon 200mm f/2 which I had bought earlier this year, and only used twice because of its weight. This meant that I was standing far away, outside shouting distance, and we had to resort to sign language and couriers, but the images were worth the extra trouble.

Athena Nesti. Shooting with a telephoto lens slows things down, you set up the framing, and then all you need to worry about is the timing.

Next we moved down into the pool, which allowed us to fill the entire background with the fountain and create a more immersed picture.

Unfortunately as we were in the middle of photographing the fountain suddenly stopped, turns out they had scheduled a pool cleaning and the workers were draining the pool and it would not be up and running again for the next few days. So we decided to take the subway and head out to Långholmen for a few photos there.