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River City Ballroom Dance Sale Ending

Professional Showcase - ©TimeLine Media

Midlothian, Virginia

So many thank need to be given for today’s post! It is so helpful to have other photographers that can cover events for you. With the Spring season finally here, there are many events where organizers are looking for great images. This passed weekend, I assisted in shooting a wedding with one photographer friend, while two others had to cover a big event for me. It is so nice to have a network of professionals that you can count on to help if you are booked, and to help with their projects if you have a free weekend!

River City Ballroom Dance Competition - ©TimeLine Media
River City Ballroom Dance Competition – ©TimeLine Media

River City Dancesport Competition

This event, the River City Ballroom Dance Competition held in Richmond, VA is another one of those times. I was covering an event this same weekend, so Jae stepped up and traveled to photograph this event for TimeLine Media. He did a great job capturing all the dancers as they danced in competitive heats, and in their choreographed showcase routines.

River City Ballroom Dance Competition - ©TimeLine Media
River City Ballroom Dance Competition – ©TimeLine Media

So many of the dancers have come to the website to see their photos, and we have to thank them especially for supporting our photography by purchasing prints and digital files from the event! THANK YOU! There is an early-bird special that has been in effect for the first 2 weeks after the photos went live, and it expires today. This is the 20% off discount on anything purchased from the site.

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River City Ballroom Dance Competition - ©TimeLine Media
River City Ballroom Dance Competition – ©TimeLine Media

The photos will not be removed from the site until August. You can continue to view and share all the images to friends or other dancers that attended the event until then. Only the discount will disappear tonight. We sorted the photos by dancer number on the website. If we made any mistakes, or if you are having trouble finding your photos, please let me know. Firstly, you can send me an email – rassi at timelinedc.com. Additionally, you can give me call – 703.864.8208 and I would be happy to help you. I have a lot of new and fun images to share on the blog from this weekend. Stay tuned for more of those!

Professional Dance Show

Professional Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
River City Ballroom Dance Competition – Professional Showcase – ©TimeLine Media
Professional Latin Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
Professional Latin Showcase – ©TimeLine Media

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Software Perspective Correction

Final software corrected image

Post Processing

Thanks to feedback from my photographer friend, Jae, I decided to try editing the photo from yesterday’s post in software. In that case, I compared two images from a Nikon PC (perspective correction) or tilt-shift lens. Overall you can use this special lens to straighten angles of buildings that you photograph. Concurrently, the images will not have that “falling away” look. This is usually what you get when the camera is pointed up towards the top. With this in mind, here is a repost of the two images – the one on the left uncorrected, and the one on the right straightened.

Tilt Shift comparison - ©TimeLine Media
Tilt Shift comparison – ©TimeLine Media

Today, I attempted to do the same correction on the left photos, but in Photoshop CC to see how close you can get in post. In Photoshop, I selected the Perspective Warp tool by selecting it under the Edit menu. This is the dialog box that pops up:

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp - 1
Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp – 1

It tells you to draw a box around the areas that you would like to straighten. I go for the top half of the house as this is where I saw the biggest change in the photo.

Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp - 2
Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp – 2

Next, I moved the corner dots to the edges of that section of the house that I wanted to line up:

Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp - 3
Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp – 3

Turning on the Grid lines, it makes it easier to adjust the dots to be straight to each other, and the rest of the photo adjusts along with them:

Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp - 4
Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp – 4

Clicking the check mark gives you this image:

Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp - 5
Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp – 5

This is very close to the corrected image! Unfortunately, you can see how much of the photo needs to be cropped out, which means that I will lose some of the structure in order to fill in the black background.

Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp - 6
Adobe Photoshop Perspective Warp – 6

This is the real power of the tilt shift lens. In this case, the background is just made of lawn and driveway. You may need to have that area for indoor photos, or other larger projects. This also shows that this is a very specialized lens that will really show its magic in specific circumstances. It was fun trying this tool in Photoshop, and am happy that I could use this in a pinch! I would just need to set the camera back a little farther if I want to get more in the frame.

Final software corrected image
Final software corrected image

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Tilt Shift Lenses – Part 1– Tech Thursday

Shift corrected house photo - ©TimeLine Media

Straight Lines

Very good photographers visualize the world differently. There are stories of people that claim to see the world at certain focal lengths. Commonly 35mm or 50mm on a full frame camera. I don’t know if I am that in tune with my gear, but I am getting much better at pre-visualizing an image before I set the camera.

Architects, similarly, view structures in much the same way. My father was an architect, and I watching him draw buildings out of a blank sheet of paper reveals how he views structures from different perspectives. Another characteristic of most blue prints is that there is no distortion of the angles in the drawings. It is important to keep them straight to make it clear to engineers and builders which angles should be straight in case there are others that they are intentionally changing for design. A tilt shift lens will allow you to straighten all the angles in an image, and remove the distortion that comes from the angle of the camera to the building.

Uncorrected house photo - ©TimeLine Media
Uncorrected house photo – ©TimeLine Media

Above is an example of a non-corrected image from a 24mm lens. Because the camera and lens is pointed up towards the building, it makes the top of the house look like it is falling away. The straight sides of the structure seem to be converging at the top of the frame. This is an angle that would not be drawn by an architect. It would be confusing, and not representative of how they would want the structure to be built. Here is a corrected version of the same scene:

Shift Correction

Shift corrected house photo - ©TimeLine Media
Shift corrected house photo – ©TimeLine Media

The camera position was not changed between these two images as it was mounted on a tripod. Only the shift function of the tilt shift lens was changed, and the camera angle pointed straight towards the building. This is the magic of the tilt shift lens. You remove the distortion by straightening the angle of the camera to the house, then shift the lens so you can still capture the entire front façade of the building in one frame. I will show how the lens looks and how it makes these changes in a future post.

Tilt Shift comparison - ©TimeLine Media
Tilt Shift comparison – ©TimeLine Media

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