Posts Tagged ‘dancers’

Mid-Atlantic Championships Sale Ending

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There have been lots of views of the photos from the USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships over the last two weeks! The web server has been busy according to the stats. We are so pleased that so many have viewed and purchased prints and downloads! It helps us to keep working to make the best ballroom dance photos. Additionally it helps us to organize them to make them easy to find for dancers.

Bethesda, Maryland

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media 

Looking back over the photos I was taken back to the image sorting. Undoubtedly this was the hardest part of finishing this event. Of all the ballroom dance events that we cover, the Mid-Atlantic Championships is the hardest to finish. There is such a varied number of categories, and level of dancers, and the heats are very full over the two days. The challenge is to identify so many dancers by their numbers using a combination of photos catching the numbers on the back, the program, and the results pages online. It was a good 4-day job just to complete that! It was a good thing that our lighting setup was very good for the room, so I did not have as much photo editing to do with each one.

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

Early Bird Sale Ending

As an important reminder, the early-bird sale of 20% off all sales from the event will be ending this upcoming Monday, March 10, 2014. There is no coupon code needed – the discount will be applied automatically at checkout. Thanks again to all of you that have already taken advantage of the sale. I have been busy putting in all the orders and have enjoyed seeing you share your digital downloads on Facebook, Twitter, and other places online! Here is the link to the photos where the sale is ending:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

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USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media 

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Triple Swing – Professional Showcase

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Who is ready for a triple swing? In reviewing old blog posts, I found that there are still some professional shows that I have not posted about from the Arthur Murray Fall Showcase. There was a large number of shows from this event! To be sure I do not want to leave any of the dancers out! They are too nice to ask when their featured photos will show up. With this in mind I have gone back to make note of which ones I have not blogged yet.

Arthur Murray Swing

Arthur Murray - Alxandria, VA - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray – Alxandria, VA – ©TimeLine Media

Today’s show was a triple swing performed by the Arthur Murray franchised dance studio in Alexandria, VA. They danced to a popular song at the studios – “Lollipop.” I recall dancing a showcase routine to this a few years ago – it has a quick tempo requiring you to keep steps compact. It is also a challenge to dance at that tempo for the entire length of the song which these two did very well! They even though in a lift in the middle just to up the ante even more. The fun lollipop prop and dress really brought out the whimsical feel of the dance that the audience responded to nicely.

Tysons, Virginia

Professional Dance Showcase - Arthur Murray, Alexandria, VA - ©TimeLine Media
Professional Dance Showcase – Arthur Murray, Alexandria, VA – ©TimeLine Media

After post this, there are only two other shows from this event that I have not posted on the blog. I am thinking about having a Facebook poll about the photos from each show. We only have a limited space to hang posters from the previous event’s professional shows, so we need to narrow down the candidates soon. Stay tuned here to find out more on how we decide to print these. Thanks!

Professional Dance Showcase - Arthur Murray, Alexandria, VA - ©TimeLine Media
Professional Dance Showcase – Arthur Murray, Alexandria, VA – ©TimeLine Media

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Photography Endurance

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Many photographers blog about the challenges they face in the genre of work in which they specialize. As an event photographer that primarily focuses on making a large amount of images at events, endurance is a challenge that I confront both during and after the shoot is over. In this last event, we had some other issues that we have not encountered before during the weekend, and it added to the stress and work while we were on site. After pushing through, it was really satisfying to find that the photography quality did not suffer, and we did not lose any image data from 2 full days of shooting.

Bethesda, Maryland

USA  Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

After the event, it takes a lot of endurance to go through each of these photos. If a photo is not in focus, no one will ever see it. If a flash did not fire, no one will ever see it. Then, adjustments and crops are made to each so that they look great on the website! You need to be able to see the faces of the main couple in the photo. After all of these are completed, the photos have to be organized by dancer number. At the Mid-Atlantic Championships, we are lucky to know a lot of the dancers by name.

USA  Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

Trying to get all of this done within a week, then have all 9000+ files uploaded to the website takes a lot of effort – late nights, early mornings, and having some computer working on some part of this process going on while working on another. Rest assured, I let everyone know as soon as the website gets all the  photos ready to view. This time, the push to get this done really wiped me out, and my body caught some bug. I am recovering now, but it is so much nicer to have a lighter schedule to answer emails, put in orders, and work on some new photos from last weekend! Maybe I will have to improve my endurance since we will have a lot more events this year.

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USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

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