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November 2014 archive

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2014 Dance Photos | Dancesport Photographer

Where has the time gone? It is already Thanksgiving, and the holiday shopping season has already started! Christmas is now one month away, and if you were thinking about giving personal photos as a gift to your family, or your instructors, or studios, please come back to visit the TimeLine Media photography page. I have re-released all the events that we have covered this year for holiday ordering! Any event that was photographed in 2014 is again available to view until January 12, 2015.

Ballroom Dance Events

Arthur Murray Fall Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Fall Showcase – ©TimeLine Media

I have had a lot of requests throughout the year to have 2014 dance events re-uploaded. Because of busy schedules getting in the way of browsing through photos. If you were one of them, now is your chance to go back and see all your routines! Additionally, you can see costumes, and dresses that you wore this year. It is always gratifying to go back to view all the images that we made at competitions and showcases throughout the year, and I am happy that so many of these have been shared in print and online.

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DC Dance Challenge - ©TimeLine Media
DC Dance Challenge – ©TimeLine Media

For ordering deadlines, I want to give you as much of a heads up to ensure your photos are delivered on time. Albums can be made from images of any event that is on the website, so compile your favorites into one memory book from 2014! Album orders made by Wednesday, December 10, 2014 will arrived by December 24. Print orders can be placed by Wednesday, December 17, 2014 for December 24 delivery. Of course, you will still get immediate delivery of digital downloads, so that is the best for last minute shoppers! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving, and my biggest thanks goes to all of you that have supported our photography this year. Thank you!!

American Star Ball dance photo - ©TimeLine Media
American Star Ball 2014 dance photo – ©TimeLine Media

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New Jersey State Open Sale Ending | Dancesport Photographer

Atlantic City, NJ

It was another great weekend of dance photography! On Saturday, we covered the DC Area Arthur Murray Fall Showcase event. I am now working through all the files from the event and I hope to have them uploaded by Friday. Stay tuned to the blog or the TimeLine Media Facebook page for the latest updates. I cannot way to share these images with you! It was so much fun to see all the new routines from the Rock and Roll theme – both the dancing and the music really made the time fly. Until they are ready, please view the photos from the 2014 New Jersey State Open. The early-bird sale from this event ends tonight, Monday, November 17, 2014. To view the images from this event click the link below:

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General Dancing at the NJSO - ©TimeLine Media
General Dancing at the NJSO – ©TimeLine Media

I know I have not been blogging as regularly the last few weeks, and it is because I have been catching up with all the photo shoots I have been doing. I have not even gone through all the photos from this event to pick out my favorites to keep in the portfolio! In the quick look I did for this post, I know I have to do that soon. There were some great images from the professional Rising Star and Open Professional shows.

Professional Competition

Smooth Open Pro at New Jersey State Open - ©TimeLine Media
Smooth Open Pro at New Jersey State Open – ©TimeLine Media
American Rhythm competition - ©TimeLine Media
American Rhythm competition – ©TimeLine Media

There were also some other entertainment to go along with the ballroom dancing. The Lindy Hop All Stars and magician David Darwin rounded out the main show. Thanks to everyone that visited the website over the past three weeks. I have sent a lot of prints all around the country and I am sure the digital files have been sent even farther and faster! Please send the link to anyone that attended the competition and have not yet seen their photos. They will be available to view on the website until next March, it is only the pricing for items that will go up starting tomorrow.

American Rhythm at New Jersey State Open - ©TimeLine Media
American Rhythm at New Jersey State Open – ©TimeLine Media
American Smooth dance competition - ©TimeLine Media
American Smooth dance competition – ©TimeLine Media

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Analysis Paralysis | Tech Tuesday

Outer Banks North Carolina

Analysis Paralysis will sometimes stall a creative process. It has been a while since I have posted! We have been busy with a lot of events, and we even took some time to go on some trips all around the country. I am back and finally getting some time to go through the photos. While going through the photos, I recall a question that my cousin asked as we were walking around his city. He asked – how do you find better landscape compositions?

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - ©TimeLine Media
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse – ©TimeLine Media

I believe it is a combination of just shooting, and refining. Trying to overthink a photo when you arrive to a location can really take away from your enjoyment of your visit. Also, it may prevent you from getting any images at all! If it is a popular tourist, or familiar landmark like these North Carolina coastal lighthouses, you have a lot of images in your mind already. I always take these classic or overdone photos if I can to add them to my personal collection. But then, I use the digital tools, the back of the camera to review and get a better images before I leave the location. Here we found a nice dune overlooking the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. My first thought was to use my ultra wide lens to get a lot of the sky with the lighthouse in the far background.

Cape Hatteras through wide angle lens - ©TimeLine Media
Cape Hatteras through wide angle lens – ©TimeLine Media

Working a Scene

Not good. You can’t even see the lighthouse and the frame is dominated by large areas of sand and coastal grasses. I did not see anything that was worth trying again, so I changed lenses. I wanted to bring the lighthouse to a more prominent part of the frame, so I put the 105mm lens onto the camera.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - ©TimeLine Media
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse – ©TimeLine Media


This is better. The lighthouse is larger in the frame, but I now see new distractions. There is a paved parking lot for visitors, and a radio tower both of which I did not even see in the first attempt. At least I solved how I wanted the lighthouse to look in the frame. Now I just needed to move my position slightly to move the distractions out of the frame.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - ©TimeLine Media
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse – ©TimeLine Media


Crouching in between the coastal grasses gave me this frame. Most of the distractions are out of the way. I like how the out of focus coastal grasses are leading your eyes to the lighthouse that is rendered sharply. But a few of the tips are a little too large, so they can take the attention away.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - ©TimeLine Media
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse – ©TimeLine Media


Just moving a few feet allowed me to find my final position. Nothing is blocking the body of lighthouse, and all the grasses are a consistently small size in the photo. I did have to crop a little from the left to completely get rid of the radio tower, but I am happy how this turned out. I really enjoyed making this image, but spent a lot of the rest of the day painfully picking out “hithchikers” that grabbed onto my sneakers.

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