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Day 2 – New Jersey State Open

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Today we do Day 2 of the 2013 New Jersey State Open. We had a great day yesterday covering the first day. The heats were very smoothly run throughout the day even though we did not have many long breaks in the action. The judges, organizers, and emcee kept things running early for most of the day. We have another good collection of photos so far, and we are ready to make more today. Stay tuned for updates on when they will be ready to view sometime next weekend. Thank you!

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This is my best hope at this time for the timeline. Of course, we still have to finish all our coverage today. Afterwards we need to travel home before starting the post processing of all the images. Of course we will sort the photos by gentlemen’s number. Being that we are more familiar with the dancers, this should not take that long. If you have any special need to have images earlier, please let me know. At this point, I have already had some requests. As soon as I can get you photos, I will accommodate them. Thank you!

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Day 1 – New Jersey State Open

We have safely made it to Atlantic City! This weekend is the 2013 New Jersey State Open. We have two full days of dancing ahead of us. All of the lights and cameras are setup, so we are ready to go as of 6:30AM on Friday. It is a 7AM start on both days, so you can watch all day if you are in the area. The venue is the Grand Ballroom of the Golden Nugget – Atlantic City, and I think the dancers will enjoy the setting. We will have plenty of pictures to share from the weekend to be sure! When they are ready, you can go to the proofing website to view all of them here:

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You can give us your email address there if you want to be notified as soon as they are ready to view. We will also be posting the notice at our Facebook page. If you like the page, you will receive updates on the photos to your feed. Afterwards, please give me some feedback on the images. I enjoy making them, and put a lot of work into them. However, I know we can always do better, and would like to hear suggestions. Thank you!

2013 New Jersey Statae Open - ready to start!
2013 New Jersey State Open – ready to start!

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Special Event Lighting – Tech Thursday

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White Balance

When shooting color images, digital photography gives us a lot more flexibility in color balance. This is usually one of the first options that photo applications will let you adjust in your photos. In Adobe Lightroom, they call this “Temperature” referring to the Kelvin setting in degrees. On the lower end of the scale are the “cooler” or bluer settings starting at 2000K. On the other end is going to the “warmer” or yellower settings 10000K to 50000K.

Lightroom - color temperature slider
Lightroom – color temperature slider

Similarly to a previous post which I talked about bouncing the light off of colored walls, having mixed lighting sources will also affect the look of your photos. At events where there is lighting setup to set a mood for the room, you will have strongly colored constant lights. These will usually be tinted with a gel or LEDs that can make every kind of color possible. This can be difficult to balance, as now there are competing sources of color in your frames.

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My thought in this situation is to use my flash to get the best exposure I can at the time. Having a good exposure means I can work with the file more easily in Lightroom later. The dance events usually has changing lights, so I cannot do a good white balance for each color, I just have to make a good exposure.

Back in Lightroom, I use the temperature and tint sliders to ensure that the skin of subjects in the frame looks good. It may not be exactly their skin tone as you see it, but neither is their color on the dance floor flooded with colored light. The downside is that the colored light in the background, or the ambient color of the room may change, but skin tones are my only concern. Whatever colors happen to change in the background or other room elements will have to be left as is. Let me know what you guys do when facing these room a wedding receptions, or other setups with special event lighting.

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