Three Cheers for the Rise of Acro

Photographer Holly Andres went to the University of Oregon to take this picture of the cheerleading team. The perspective here is really cool because it appears as if the photographer is lying on the ground on her back directly under the team! It is interesting that she managed to capture this moment in time when the cheerleaders on the ground all had their hands up and when the 3 girls went flying through the air. The artist was given an assignment to shoot the team in black and white and she did not know what to do. Instead of panicking, she decided to use really low angles and sky exposure to make it seem like the cheerleaders were popping out of the image like graphic objects. This technique was borrowed from an Olympic photographer from 1937 called Leni Riefenstahl and is overall a really cool effect.