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Fall Showcase – Sale Ending

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The sale on all the photo products from the Arthur Murray Fall Showcase is ending this upcoming Monday, December 16, 2013. All sales from this event are 20% off until Monday. You will still be able to view and share the photos until March 31, 2014, so you have plenty of time to still view the photos. Please let me know if we have made any mistakes in categorizing your photos! We have tried to put everyone under their correct studio, but we have been notified of a few errors. We want everyone to find their images, and we thank you in advance for the help.

Tysons, Virginia

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©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray Gaithersburg, MD

The photos featured on the blog this week are from another of the professional shows from the Fall Showcase. These are from the Gaithersburg, MD studio, and they are dancing a Rumba. After a full day of dancing other routines with their students, these two did a show for everyone in attendance. I am always amazed how these dancers can keep all their routines in their memory, when it is so difficult to remember just one!

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

This was another beautiful routine from these two. We have not seen them do a show together, and they did a great job on this pro show! What they were wearing sets up perfectly for black and white photos.

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Changing photos to monochrome is where I really have fun in post processing photos. It is more than just removing color! I will post more about my techniques for doing this in a future blog post. If you have your own tips on how to do this, please let me know!

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Rumba Professional Show – Arthur Murray

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Tysons Corner, VA

Back to some dancing! Featured today is a professional show by the Arthur Murray – Tysons Corner, Virginia studio. At the Fall Showcase event, Carlos and Lauren closed out the day by performing this lovely Rumba.

This was a smooth routine to Robin Thicke’s “Teach U a Lesson”. My wife photographed the video above, which gives me a chance to actually enjoy the routines! I can see the spots where I could have taken more photos of the show. Why didn’t I take them? Maybe I was not going to chase the photo, maybe the angle was not as good from the part of the floor where I was standing.

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©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray Tysons Corner – Rumba

Rumba Showcase

Sometimes, though, I gauge the vibe of the room, and it changes how I shoot. When the routines are high energy, and the crowd is readily whooping and encouraging the dancers, I feel very free to join in, throw the shutter, and let the flashes go. In this routine, the dancers really had the room’s attention in a more intense and concentrated feel. Part of it is the choice of music. This R&B groove seems like it has been pulled from a darkened lounge, where the dancers are not performing for an audience. They are dancing as though they are in a more intimate setting where they are not trying to draw attention to themselves, so the audience responds in a similar way – keeping their applause and noise to a minimum. I feel that, and try not to interrupt that with noises from my camera.

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©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray Tysons Corner professional Show

I was still able to get some cool photos from their show! The feel from this was seen again when they performed this during our studio’s weekly party. The feel was much the same from the dancers and the audience there too!

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Chasing Photos – Tech Thursday

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Sports and photographing action or events share similarities in the way you approach achieving the end objectives. The one I am writing about today is chasing photos. A quarterback in football that is known as a “gunslinger” takes more chances when he passes the ball. He will pass the ball in more situations where there is a lower percentage of success. Or he may overthink or outsmart himself. The overestimation of his abilities will enable him to complete a pass that has a low chance of getting to where he wants it to go.

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Being an action photographer, I have similar problems when doing a long event shoot. For ballroom dancing, there is no shortage of action to get in the frame. Sometimes, though, I “chase” photos. I think that I can get my long lens to frame up a composition that I know is coming up. I am not the most experienced ballroom dancer. However, I have seen more than my fair share of dancers. I think I can anticipate when a specific line is coming up, and when the dancers seem to be lining up perfectly with my perspective.

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Chasing Photos

Much like a gunslinger, this approach to photography can yield spectacular results! Unfortunately, this can also lead to missing some easier shots that were right in front of me, but I missed because I was chasing another photo. What I do now is to mix my technique while shooting. Only after I am sure the guaranteed shots are in the camera do I start to go for more unconventional photos. It allows me more freedom to be creative after the documentary or standard shots are done. I feel like I have completed my job for my clients, now I can move to other photos that I will add to my portfolio for later. If only my favorite football teams could do this…

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