This is a great little BTS series from the good folks up at BYU.

Shooting dancers and gymnast is one of my favorite subjects, and they approached this with a very unique concept… gymnasts and water.

“The idea was to highlight the shapes of the gymnasts performing different poses and jumps and have water flying off of their legs, arms and hair to accentuate their movements. We opted to set up the shoot in the Richards Building Pool, due to its ample supply of warm water.

First we set up a background with two large sheets of Duvetyne, also known as black wrap. It is used on television and movie sets to black out windows and block out light. We use is as a background on many of our shoots because it goes completely black when you light it right. After hanging the Duvetyne from the railings, we brought in a blow-up kiddie pool on top of a gymnastics mat. We wanted to have a small pool of water so that the gymnasts could wet their arms and legs right before jumping. Rather than fill it up with air we just wrapped the edges around some PVC pipe. On top of the pool we put some generic black cloth.”

From the shoot:

Check it all out with lots of great photos and a BTS video.

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