It has been a few weeks now since the 2014 Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles. After all the work to edit, sort the files, and get orders out to everyone, I finally have some time to look back on this event. There were many great dancers and photos we made that weekend. This is the longest break between Arthur Murray events that we cover. So we try to prepare as best we can for the event. There are always new attendees that we want to make a good first impression, so we have some of our best photographers to help, and we have all our gear cleaned and ready to go from the start! From this first post, I have selected photos from the first professional show that closed out the event – a Cha Cha by the Ashburn, Virginia studio!
Westfields Marriott
Being the first of the professional shows that performed for the evening is a neat spot! The crowd is still settling down from the last general dance, and with no previous performance, the audience has a fresh palette. The song was “Come Dance with Me” by Michael Buble. These two had a lot of success in getting the audience pumped up with some awesome dancing! You can catch a video of the performance here:
If you look closely, you can see me hunched in some of the frames as I tried to keep up! A lot of people ask why I shoot from down low. Really, this is the best angle to capture any subject that you want to make larger, more heroic in the photo. From down here, it is much easier to compose a frame where they look larger than life! You would think that it would have a strange perspective, but with a lot of distance between me and the dancers, that angle is minimized, and you can hardly tell that I was as low to the ground with my camera!
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