THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES

 

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up. However, every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night. Nobody could find out how it happened, or where the princesses had been.

PRE-PLANNING= MOOD BOARDING:

My main inspirations were Jamie Beck and Bella Kotak (photographers). Over this past semester I’ve been keeping up with them on their social media where they share their photography tips and only now have the time to take self-portraits and implement what I’ve learned. Jamie Beck has taken about the focus on hands a couple of times, so I took a trip to the MET to photograph the hands of the marble statues and some paintings.

 

 The king asked him. ‘Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?’

 

SHOOTING:

Shooting the photos took 3 days, using 1 shirt, 11 different plants, a nectarine, and a doughnut.

 

 

EDITING:

This project has definitely forced me to be more organized with selection of photographs and sorting them into properly name folders so I have an easier time finding them in the future.

Many photos were layered on top of one incase I didn’t like the hands and wanted to replace them.

A process:

the choices:

BEFORE/ AFTER

 

 

The soldier answered, ‘With twelve princes in a castle underground.’ And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him. The king called for the princesses, and asked them whether what the soldier said was true and when they saw that they were discovered, and that it was of no use to deny what had happened, they confessed it all. [I wouldn’t]

 

 

K.K.