Posts Tagged ‘Arthur Murray’

Ballroom Dance Photographer Event Cards

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Tysons, Virginia

We have some new ballroom dance event cards! As can be seen at our booth, we use these as reminders to dancers. Overall, a dance event is very noisy, and busy with may things going on. As dancers leave the event these remind them to come back to the proofing website. While there, they can see their photos after the event. We make them from images from the previous event’s professional shows.

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©TimeLine Media – ballroom dance event card

We have been making these since the first event that we officially covered. They are nice marketing pieces for us, and the dancers like to see themselves in print with students liking to collect their teacher cards. I have not tallied exactly how many different cards we have made, but if you look closely, you can see that each has an identifier to let you know the series. Maybe I will go back through the archives to see all of them, and how they have changed. The latest change was on the back, where I have taken out more the text to make it easier to see the important information, and make a large QR-code for smartphone scanners.

©TimeLine Media - ballroom dance event card
©TimeLine Media – ballroom dance event card

These are only a few of the cards – the rest you will have to come by the booth and see this Saturday. We will be at the Sheraton Premiere in Tysons Corner, VA to cover the DC Area Arthur Murray Fall Showcase. I’m sure there is a lot of last minute fine tuning of routines at the studios this week – cutting music, refining where to enter the dance floor, and of course, how to acknowledge the judges at the end of the routine. We are ready to photograph everyone this weekend – see you there!

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Square Presentations

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It has been about 2 months since I last wrote about square cropping for photos. Now the new iOS 7 has a Square format for iPhone users to easily compose photos in this format. I have found it a much different way to compose photos in the app. I suspect this is the same if you switched from a 35mm format camera to an old 6×6 medium format camera.

©TimeLine Media - square crop -  Fashion NoVA model
©TimeLine Media – square crop – Fashion NoVA model

Like minimalism, the restrictions by using these dimensions can open up some creative possibilities. I have come across a lot of square collection lately in magazines that have caught my eye. Some are historic photographs, especially those looking back on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and some are current photo projects just cropped to these dimensions. This is a very easy composition to put together into composites:

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©TimeLine Media – 4 Composite – Flowers

And the square format works for so many subjects – both still life and action photos. I had to look through the portfolio to find at least one ballroom dance photo that would work well. The challenge in finding one was looking for ones that had both dancers in full extension , but that would fit in the frame without too much extra space above and below them. I found one at the Arthur Murray Fall Freestyles. It was harder to find one that worked as well as this one!

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©TimeLine Media – ballroom dance photo

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Arthur Murray – at the New Jersey State Open

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When you travel far from home for work, it is always nice to see familiar Arthur Murray faces. Going to the New Jersey State Open is always a privilege to photograph because of the quality of the competition organization, and the dancing all weekend. During the professional competitions, it was really nice to see studios that brought a large contingent of students with them to cheer them on! Of course the crowd is always more excited when the professionals are twirling and moving quickly up and down the floor, but this element was reminiscent of our local events. It really upped the enthusiasm, and their dancers really responded!

Professional competition at the New Jersey State Open ©TimeLine Media
Professional competition at the New Jersey State Open ©TimeLine Media

I did get photos of all the dancers on the floor since they were all making some nice lines on the floor. But I did yell for our local favorites from the Arthur Murray in Silver Spring, MD!

Dancers from the Silver Spring, MD studio at the New Jersey State Open ©TimeLine Media
Dancers from the Silver Spring, MD studio at the New Jersey State Open ©TimeLine Media

There were a couple of favorites from the Arthur Murray studios in New Jersey. They came sporting their studio jackets, and always had a lot of support for their students and instructors when they were on the floor.

©TimeLine Media - Arthur Murray at the New Jersey State Open
©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray at the New Jersey State Open

It was so nice to see them show off their skills on a big stage! We hope to see all of them at another competition soon. It is not difficult to find good photos when they are on the floor.

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©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray at the New Jersey State Open

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