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November 23, 2013

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Arthur Murray Fall Showcase Today!

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All day today we will be at the Sheraton Premiere in Tysons Corner, VA for the DC Area Arthur Murray Fall Showcase event. It will be a great day of ballroom dancing! This is the completion of months of hard work for the students and teachers in the area studios, and I am sure they are ready to show off for their friends and studio mates. Along with the new event cards that we had printed to hand out today, we also have two new large posters to show off at the booth. One has images from the beautiful Foxtrot show by the Arthur Murray – Ashburn, VA studio.

As someone once said during an event, for some, ballroom dancing is all about the Foxtrot. It is routines like this which really makes that point! It is a credit to the dancers when the movement looks natural – like walking down the street. When in actuality it is very challenging to do! It is also a challenge to make it look different from the other smooth dances – the swaying of the Waltz, or the sharp staccato of the Tango.

We are looking forward to another great set of professional shows to finish the evening tonight. We will post more highlights from them here on the blog as the photos are completed. To see all the photos from the Fall Showcase, they will be posted at the proofing website approximately a week after the event. Stay tuned here on the blog for daily updates, or “Like” our Facebook page for updates on your wall.

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November 19, 2013

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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.

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.

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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November 18, 2013

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New Jersey State Open – Showcases

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At this year’s New Jersey State Open, the audience was treated to many solo showcases throughout the weekend. No other couples were on the floor for these dancers, and they had their music selection playing for their routines. When these came around, I could easily concentrate on the featured dancers, and ensure that I capture their dips, lifts, and smiles!

Showcase Routines

This was a nice diversion from the competition heats. There was additional artistic creativity on display with their additional costume accessories. Also, they crated choreography that matched the music or lyrics perfectly. It was clear that the dancers have been working on these for a long time!

For me, I also had a positive change of pace. From the background in the photos, I have changed my shooting position. I am now near the front of the ballroom where the emcee, and DJ were sitting with the New Jersey State Open sign behind me. Before the event began, I had a second set of lights setup in case I wanted to use more from shooting at the back, or in case I had to shoot from this side of the ballroom. It was setup nicely so that the photos still had the same quality from this side without any break in the flow of the event.

This bit of preparation I had to learn from previous competitions where I had not planned for this, and the photos suffered. I either had the right position but a bad lighting setup, or I stayed where I had been the entire event and capture only the backs of the dancers during their show dances. I bring this lesson with me every time I setup at a new venue… just in case.

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