Just a quick note today that the DC Area Arthur Murray Fall Freestyles photos from September 28 – 28, 2012 are expiring on the proofing website on Monday, March 4, 2013. This will be the last chance to view these on the website. It is an extra charge in order to find your photos at a later date, but it is possible to get them out of the electronic archive. To view the photos, they are still available on the website here:
The next Arthur Murray dance event that we will be covering will be their 2013 Spring Freestyles held March 22 – 23, 2013 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. Please leave me some feedback on the photos if you have viewed them. It helps us to adjust how we cover these events. Generally we have an idea of what we think looks good. Additionally, we put our photographers in a good position to get the best angles while being out of the way of the audience. However, we always look to improve. Especially since we cover so many of the events in the DC area, and we are familiar with so many of the staff, we want to contribute to their great events!
No password or access code is needed to view the photos. Please share the link with your family and friends that would like to view! We have organized the photos by dancer number so you don’t have to go through thousands of other photos to find yours. If there are any mistakes, please let me know. There were a few that we could not identify, and those have been listed under “unknowns” along with their style. If you have any trouble finding your photos, please contact me directly. I’d be happy to help you find your photos. There is an early-bird sale price for all orders placed until March 11, 2013
Competition Organizers
In the spirit of the Oscars, I have a lot of people to thank for helping to make these great images. First, the organizers from the Mid-Eastern Chapter of USA Dance, Joe, Jack, and Dave that are very helpful to us. They helped us to get setup and organized for the whole weekend. They let me and my photographers have great access to the floor during the Mid-Atlantic Championships.
Next, I’d like to thank Rachel, Shanna, Mario, and Jae for helping me to cover the event by using their photography and stamina skills to shoot many hours of dancing over the course of two days. There were lots of photos, but I think we covered the event as best we could.
Mid-Atlantic Championship Dancers
To the dancers, I admire the work that you put into your dancing through practices, coaching, and rehearsing with your partners. Ballroom dancing is a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of effort and guts to be confident enough to go in front of judges and and audience to show off your skills. Continued luck with your dancing in the future, and I hope to see you again in my camera soon!
Thanks to my wife who worked hard all last weekend to go through photos, and this weekend to go through them again to categorize them by number. We get better every time, but it’s always quite a feat to finish one of these. BRING ON THE NEXT ONE!!
I’ll rest for a bit, but I do have more exciting photos to come this weekend. Stay tuned to the blog for those!
The uploading of the photos is continuing! There are 9780 photos in total, so it does take a while to get on the web, but they will be up there soon! Also, there are many folders going up since we sorted them by the gentleman’s number. Thanks for checking out the blog! All the photos will be posted to the proofing website here-
As can be seen, you can order your images in black and white. Unlike the color images, these monochrome tones can highlight the lines of the dancers. Especially when you have a colorful dress, this can distract from the work you put into your dancing.
From a photographer perspective, black and white is a departure from reality. For the most part, people see in color. With this in mind, changing a photo monochrome starts you on the path to artistic freedom. Taking the image above for example, I darkened the areas surrounding the dancers to make the pop out even more. When the photo was desaturated, I thought that the other dancers, the audience, and the room did not add much to the composition. So I darkened those attempting to make it clearer. How did it work?
