Welcome to Shutter Notes, our weekly community feature. Shutter Notes gives you the chance to get to know our community members a bit better. Each member will share a little bit about themselves and their chosen image.

Alan Hubbard started photography about 15 years ago. Hi is now retired and mainly photographs sports and portraits

Alan Hubbard girl on beach doing an arabesque
Nikon Z9, 50mm, f1.2 Nikon Z lens, ISO 64, f2.0, 1/1000s

Why and how Alan created this image

Alan is really interested in doing more ballet photography. This is one of his favorites so far. Ballet photos are elegant by nature. Alan loves golden hour lighting and finds it matches beautifully with dance photography.

This image took just one attempt but it took planning. He wanted the golden hour lighting to coincide with low tide so the sand would be wet and I’d get good reflections.

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