David Cooper Dance Photography Workshops

01/22/2021

Tyler Layton Olson at the 2015 workshop in continuous light with a motor drive. It never ceases to amaze me how dancers land from these jumps.

01/14/2021

You probably have to have been working in photography long before 2001 to know what this is. It's a polaroid taken on a Hasselblad 500cm. Probably the most beautiful camera ever made. If you wanted to test the lighting, this was the only way to get a preview before you use film. The danger was if you got a fantastic shot on polaroid would you be able to do it again on film. Below is Eveyn Hart who won the gold medal in Varna and became a principal ballerina at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
At one of my workshops I was surprised to see a participant using film. It was very unique since I stopped using film 20 years ago. He also was freelensing with a digital camera to control unique depth of field. It shows you there are so many approaches to shooting dance that will be unique and to never stop experimenting.
Freelenseing by Mark Klotz
Dancers Thys Armstrong, and Emilie Menezes de Siqueira,Lucas Wilson-Bilbro at David Cooper Workshops.

11/08/2020

Martina in the studio before the lockdown this week.

08/07/2020

Time to get back in the studio. My mannequin head to test on will have to do until I get a real dancer.

05/25/2020

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Yosuke Mino and Liam Saito

05/10/2020

Here is most of a "Zoom" lecture about the farm shoot in Winnipeg with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. This was live to other dance photographers from around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UgeUk0Kf4Y&feature=youtu.be
It was hosted by Pas De Deux who runs a yearly photo conference about dance photography. Sorry about the crashes that I ran into using Bridge and ZOOM.

See what it's like to be photographing a major ballet's marketing campaign! David Cooper will be talking through his 5-day photo and video shoot with the Roy...

04/26/2020

One of my first workshops in Vancouver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsHVjDG54s&feature=youtu.be

04/01/2020

Hi,
Are some of you photographers and dancers out there who have been to my workshops or love just love dance interested in having a zoom meeting together about how we are all coping day to day and how we will slowly get back to work.

Photo Karen Pitkethly in a time exposure.

12/16/2019

Once in awhile you shoot a show that helps point you towards new ways to light. This piece called Bygones by Out Innerspace certainly did. Think of it as architecture with light. https://www.outinnerspace.ca/about/company/