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2013 Events Expire Today

Smooth ballroom dancing - ©TimeLine Media

Today is the last day to view and order photos from these 2013 events. They had previously expired, but were renewed prior to the holidays. Afterwards they will be removed from the website to make more room for 2014 events. If you have any questions, or need any help finding your photos, please let me know! The website for all the photos that are expiring, and the others that will still be viewable is:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

DC Area Arthur Murray 2013 Summer Showcase

2013 DC Area Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles

American Rhythm dancing - ©TimeLine Media
American Rhythm dancing – ©TimeLine Media 

That’s Dancing 2013 Summer Showcase

2013 American Star Ball

2013 Baltimore Dancesport Challenge 

Arthur Murray Summer Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Summer Showcase – ©TimeLine Media

Marsha Bonet Dance Showcase

2013 Salsa Bachata Throwdown

Smooth ballroom dancing - ©TimeLine Media
Smooth ballroom dancing – ©TimeLine Media

2013 River City Ballroom Dance Competition

2013 USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships

These event will be going back into the archive. It will be $40 to have the photos retrieved and re-uploaded to the website later. Thanks to everyone that has visited our website over the holidays to review their images. We are so happy that many of you have found images that you want to have hanging in your house, or posted all over your Facebook pages. We hope that you continue your dancing, and we catch you on the dance floor again this year!

Arthur Murray Summer Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Summer Showcase – ©TimeLine Media

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Washington Monument at Sunrise

Washington Monument HDR - ©TimeLine Media

Frozen Reflecting Pool

We have traded the cold for rain! With this in mind, I have not been able to get out there to make more photos in the early morning. Overall, it has been too overcast and rainy to get me out there. I should have made the effort, however, I am backed up with other work . Additionally, I would need to gear up with rain repellent gear for me and the cameras. Needless to say, I got lazy this week. There is still a backlog of other images that I have not posted about on the blog. These are images of the Washington Monument at sunrise from the reflecting pool that is situated at the front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Washington Monument - out of camera exposure - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument – out of camera exposure – ©TimeLine Media

Washington Monument

This is one of the images taken straight out of the camera. In this case, I took a bracketed series of photos around this exposure to combine into an HDR final image. From this file, you can make edits right in Lightroom to bump up the Exposure, Shadows and contrast, then adjust the vibrance to make this image:

Washington Monument - out of camera adjusted exposure - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument – out of camera adjusted exposure – ©TimeLine Media

HDR image

I was surprise to see how much data you can pull from one Raw file! Processing the 9 different exposures into HDR Efex Pro 2, I adjusted the sliders in that program to get something similar. My goal was to bring out more detail in the monument face and trees lining the pool on either side since those areas were so dark.

Washington Monument HDR - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument HDR – ©TimeLine Media

When editing in HDR Efex Pro 2, I was able to use control points to directly edit the face of the monument. Sunrise is not the best time to photograph the Washington Monument from this angle. It loses a lot of the luster and shine with the backlight from the rising sun. I tried to pick HDR treatments where I could bring back the light color of the monument bricks. I already have some places in mind that are situated better in the early morning light to photograph next. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! Stay tuned-

Washington Monument HDR - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument HDR – ©TimeLine Media

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Cold DC Photos

Lincoln Memorial - HDR image at a cold sunrise - ©TimeLine Media

Washington, DC

No, I have not gone out in this crazy cold weather to take more photos at sunrise! There has been an itch in the back of my mind since I know that not too many people will be out there, and the skies have been really clear in the mornings. However, the logical side of my brain won saying not to risk it with this record cold out there. Also, I do not have the proper gear to get out there and make images without getting frost bite! But I did make some nice ones after the Korean War Memorial walk through that I posted about earlier. When I started to walk back towards the car from that area, I saw this right behind me:

Lincoln Memorial at sunrise - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial at sunrise – ©TimeLine Media

Cold Sunrise

I have already made so many images of the Lincoln Memorial, but this amazing monument that is colored pink in the breaking sunrise was too good to pass up. I did not go into the memorial, as this was not what was in the best light. With the sun very low on the horizon, the pink was hitting the structure that was built up higher first. I moved as quickly as I could into position without slipping on the frozen ground to make more photos.

Lincoln Memorial at sunrise - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial at sunrise – ©TimeLine Media

The images above are just about straight out of the camera using the Vivid camera calibration from my Nikon. This last image was from an HDR of 9 bracketed exposures. I did not go too crazy with the post-processing. I just wanted punch up a little of the saturation in the sky while keeping the detail and sharpness of the building. Trying to do this on a single exposure was too difficult to balance correctly without making the masking or selection look like a mess. The HDR processing was a much faster way to get where I wanted to go!

Lincoln Memorial - HDR image at a cold sunrise - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial – HDR image at a cold sunrise – ©TimeLine Media

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