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Consistency in shooting was key for this series because it helps to emphasise the unique reactions and characteristics of each participant. With the camera on a tripod, Dafna used her Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM telephoto lens with an aperture of f/8 for most of the video portraits. "For colour, I used the Custom White Balance setting in the WB menu. That means I took a photograph of my grey card in my lighting set and uploaded it to determine the desired white balance," she says. "I then took test shots and made a few additional corrections using the White Balance Correction feature."

Video portraiture: the project

"This video portrait project is an observation of how people in the Jerusalem area react to different religious prayers – from their own culture as well as others'. It is an examination of the large range of feelings and concepts that are expressed through body language. These are expressively communicated through a series of individual video portraits, presented on vertical TV screens," Dafna explains.

"During the project, I asked a few tens of people to participate in my experiment, telling them they would be filmed while listening to sounds without knowing what they would be. They then sat and listened to sounds of Christian, Muslim and Jewish prayers while their reactions were filmed.

"The project has included not only participants of these three religions and their different variations, but also participants of mixed religious backgrounds. The final work, however, does not give the viewer any information regarding these participants. While some of the reactions are more 'typical', some are much more complex."

The final work is a set of video portraits shown simultaneously on synchronised screens, so you can see several people’s body language and reactions to the same sounds.