If you look at my onstage dance photography you will notice that I don’t often take group photos or photos where everybody is in focus. My aim is to capture emotions even if somebody hardly moves or just stands there „doing nothing“. I want to capture moments as if I am onstage myself. I want to be right in the middle of the dancers rather than just being a spectator from the audience. This is the reason why I rarely use a wide angle lens. Instead I prefer a 135mm telephoto lens with the aperture wide open from 1.8 - 2.8. My aim is to capture one individual sharp in focus while the rest of the dancers and the props become blurry and part of the scenery.This allows the focus to be exclusively upon one dancer with a distinct emotion in a fraction of a second.