7/31/2023 0 Comments Photo theater pro![]() ![]() In addition, she’s contending with stage lighting (which is more contrasting and less forgiving) and the constant motion of dance breaks. ![]() “The audience has paid a lot of money to see a show, so you have to be cognitive of them,” she says. If she’s photographing at a preview with paying patrons, she is standing in a fixed position at the back of a theater with a muzzled camera and a 100-400mm zoom lens. “Then you look and see what you have, and if there’s budget and time and desire or need, you might do setups.”Įach circumstance comes with restrictions. She shoots establishing images and then takes a little more risk, experimenting with different points of view. “Some things are easy, and some things don’t need many pictures,” she says. Her preparation starts by attending rehearsals and then photographing a dress rehearsal with no audience or an invited audience. She usually makes photographs during dress or technical rehearsals or a production’s preview shows before opening night, but sometimes she does photo sessions that replicate the stage action. “These are the pictures of what you’re going to see-what we want you to see,” Marcus says. These are images that accompany news stories and reviews of the show as well as those used in souvenir programs and box office playbills. ![]() Some of her images are used in advertising, but they primarily serve as photographic chronicles of what audiences see on stage. On stage, but not stagedĬontracted by the productions she photographs, Marcus is equal parts commercial photographer and photojournalist. She not only has a portfolio featuring Tony-worthy shows-Broadway hits “Hamilton,” “Matilda the Musical,” “King Charles III,” “The Audience,” “Waitress,” “Wicked,” “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” “Peter and the Starcatcher,” “Book of Mormon,” “Kinky Boots,” and “Something Rotten!”-she also received a Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre in 2014. ![]()
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