{"id":1714,"date":"2013-05-06T17:29:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T00:16:24","slug":"melina-at-byblos-with-the-ed-melikan-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/photo-shoot\/dance-photography-photo-shoot\/melina-at-byblos-with-the-ed-melikan-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"Melina at Byblos! with the Ed Melikan Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old train depot in Worcester<\/a> has been restored, rescuing another architectural gem.  Inside is Middle Eastern restaurant, Byblos<\/a>, with a spacious dance floor. The lighting is much too dark for my camera so I had to resort to using flash when I wanted to photograph the incomparable Melina<\/a> dancing with the Ed Melikan Ensemble<\/a>.
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\nAware that I might be annoying with that flash, I sat in a corner in front of a giant pillar.  I bounced the flash up and behind me using the Spinlight 360<\/a> with a black card.  That way I hoped the popping flash wouldn’t directly hit anyone in the eyes – not to mention indirect flash would provide a more flattering light to the dancer.<\/p>\n

The Spinlight 360<\/h2>\n

As long as it didn’t bother anybody, the flash made the difference between a failed photo shoot and getting some decent pics.  And the Spinlight 360 let me bounce the flash as needed.<\/p>\n

Note Melina’s vintage tiger print costume. I love the way it went with the tiger print upholstery in the restaurant!<\/p>\n

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All photos copyright 2013 Alice Gebura All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"7156Melina_at_Byblos\"<\/a>The old train depot in Worcester<\/a> has been restored, rescuing another architectural gem. Inside is a Middle Eastern restaurant, Byblos<\/a>, with a spacious and exotic ambience.<\/p>\n

The lighting is much too dark for my camera so I had to resort to using flash when I wanted to photograph the incomparable Melina<\/a> dancing with the Ed Melikan Ensemble<\/a>. Aware that I might be annoying with that flash, I sat in a corner in front of a giant pillar. I bounced the flash up and behind me using the Spinlight 360<\/a> with a black card. That way I hoped the popping flash wouldn’t directly hit anyone in the eyes – not to mention indirect flash would provide a more flattering light to the dancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[140,94,93,95,92,85],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance-photography-photo-shoot","tag-bellydancers","tag-byblos","tag-daughters-of-rhea","tag-ed-melikan-ensemble","tag-melina","tag-spinlight-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartalicewebdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}