Classical Odissi Dancer Fine Art - C&C Welcome

[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

Here i wanted to show the glimpse of a Classical Indian Dancer. I have put the camera on manual focus and defocused the subject and shot it handheld at slow shutter speed as i wanted the effect of camera shake too in the image.

In post processing I have added some grain and texture in the image. Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops and processing.

Thank You

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This is how Indian Classical Odissi Dancer Looks Like and i clicked her only.

[Shadowman]

Nice concept.

[bnnrcn]

I would shoot this lady by focusing instead of defocusing and with a tripod instead of handheld. I would use a slow shutter speed to get some motion blur in the image. I haven't tried such a thing before but I have seen some examples of such photos which look good

[fotugraphy]

Nice concept.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

I would shoot this lady by focusing instead of defocusing and with a tripod instead of handheld. I would use a slow shutter speed to get some motion blur in the image. I haven't tried such a thing before but I have seen some examples of such photos which look good

thank you for your valuable review and suggestion. I have a full series of it with my camera on tripod with slow shutter speed. Will share that too once i will process them in a new thread.

[FootLoose]

I appreciate what you have tried to accomplish with the first image, Raj, but I think you may have tried to do too much with the processing - b+w, texture and grain on top of the blur.

I suspect just the blurred colour shot might have achieved your aim.

[IzzieK]

The B/W to me looks like a moody dream, Raj...at least that is how I see it...

[rpcrowe]

I agree with Binnur... I would try using a slow shutter speed on a tripod. Some portions of the dancer would be somewhat sharp with the other portions blurred.

Rather than shoot the subject OOF, I would consider defocusing during PP. That way I would have more control over the amount of defocusing.

I had planned to do shots like this of the Soufi Dancers when I visited Istanbul. Unfortunately, I did not allocate enough time in that wonderful city to see a Soufi performance.