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Ballroom Dance, Event, Photography | 0 comment

Spring Freestyles Photos Released

Arthur Murray - Columbia, MD - ©TimeLine Media

Westfields Marriott

The photos from last weekend’s DC Area Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles have been released! We have edited all the images, and sorted them by studio. To view them, please visit the TimeLine Media proofing website at:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

I would like to thank my wife, Bryony for helping both at the event to manage all the photos from the photographers, and for helping to organize and make sure the photos were uploaded correctly. I also want to thank my other photographers, Bill, Chris, Rachel, and Chad for helping to capture the dancers on the floor. It is a challenge to get all the great lines, cheers, and laughs around these kinds of events, so it is great to work with such professionals! Thanks to everyone that was already stalking the website for updates as you got an early peek at the photos. We have double checked that everything is now working, so we are inviting everyone to view and share the link on all our networks!

Arthur Murray - Columbia, MD - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray – Columbia, MD – ©TimeLine Media

Photos Released

If you have any trouble finding your photos, please send me an email – Rassi @ timelinedc.com. I am happy to help you find your images. If there are any errors with where people are filed, we can change that as well. We want you to be in the right place instead of hunting for your favorites in the 9000+ images from the entire event. Stay tuned to the blog where we will feature more of our favorite images from the dancing, the team match, and the amazing professional shows that capped off the Freestyles.

Arthur Murray - Chevy Chase, MD - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray – Chevy Chase, MD – ©TimeLine Media

We wish all of you continued luck with your dancing and hope to see you at the Showcase in June! Speaking of which, the last Showcase photos will be removed from the website tomorrow, April 7, 2014. Be sure to visit the 2013 Fall Showcase event to view and share your photos from that event before they are put back into the archive. Or get another routine together for the June 1 event and we’ll make some new photos for you!

Spring Freestyles Photos Released - ©TimeLine Media
Spring Freestyles Photos Released – ©TimeLine Media

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703-864-8208

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Spring Freestyles Photos Uploading

Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles - ©TimeLine Media

Chantilly, Virginia

Whew! I am finally getting closer to finishing the photos from last weekend’s DC Area Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles! The photos are now being uploaded to the proofing website. I expect that by this evening, they will be ready to view. It takes a while for the server to get the files, then create all the thumbnails, and black and white / sepia previews. After editing there are a little over 9600 images from the weekend! My wife has helped me to organize all of them by studio. We are trying to work as quickly as we can, so there are likely some mistakes in the filing. We did manage to find places for everyone, so there are no “unknown” studios this time. But if we made any errors, please let me know, so I can find the correct places for everyone to see their photos. We are really excited with how the photos came out! To be notified as soon as the photos are finished at the website, you can leave your email at the proofing website:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

Here are some of my favorite images from just off the dance floor.

General Dancing - Arthur Murray - ©TimeLine Media
General Dancing – Arthur Murray – ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles - ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles – ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles - ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles – ©TimeLine Media

Spring Freestyles

The Westfields Marriott had a beautiful interior around the ballroom. We took advantage and got lots of photos in the atrium with the large chandelier. These photos were more than a little fun to make!

Arthur Murray Virginia Beach, VA - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Virginia Beach, VA – ©TimeLine Media

I’ll be posting so much more from this event in upcoming posts. There were great ones from the dancers, the Potomac Cup Team Match, and the professional shows. Hopefully all the photos will be ready very soon – stay tuned!

TimeLine Media – www.timelinedc.com
703-864-8208

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Photo Proofing – Tech Thursday

Standard Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media

Still have thousands of photos waiting to go on the website! I am still working late in to the night and getting up early to get as much time to go through the photos. My email is mostly on hold, and I only check in to social networks sparingly to link to new blog posts from here. This is all because I want to get these photos onto the proofing site as soon as possible. Why does it take so long? The reason is I want the images to look as good as they can before they are released for viewing.

Baltimore Dancesport Challenge

Showcase Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Showcase Dance – ©TimeLine Media

Images that are out of focus and immediately deleted. For ballroom dance and other events, any photos where the hands or other objects are obscuring the main subject are also removed. All of our cameras are set to shoot RAW files. This is a less-refined version of the JPG files that are more common. Shooting in RAW allows us to recover more detail from photos where the flashes did not pop, or to adjust the exposure in post.

Standard Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Standard Ballroom Dance – ©TimeLine Media

In setting up the lights for competitive heats, we keep the flashes behind the photographers so they will light the faces of dancers as they pass in front. With ballroom dance floors being very large, there is a gradation of how far the flash will go. If dancers are closer to the photographers, they will be brighter than dancers that are farther away. Shooting in RAW means that there is a lot more data in each file that can be recovered. So to compensate for these differences, I can adjust the Exposure, Highlights or Shadow sliders in Adobe Lightroom to make the photos look similar to each other.

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships

Latin Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Latin Dance – ©TimeLine Media

With the change in the amount of flash, there can also be changes in the color temperature of the photos. We set the cameras to be balanced to the color of the flashes. However if they do not fire, the photos take a very warm, yellow/orange color. This can also be easily adjusted with the White Balance slider. You do not have as much leeway when using JPG files. So again, the RAW files are necessary for this kind of shoot. It does take lot of space on the hard drives, and it takes a lot of time to make the corrections, but I think it’s worth it!

Smooth Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Smooth Ballroom Dance – ©TimeLine Media

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703-864-8208

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