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Spring Freestyles Photos Uploading

Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles - ©TimeLine Media

Chantilly, Virginia

Whew! I am finally getting closer to finishing the photos from last weekend’s DC Area Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles! The photos are now being uploaded to the proofing website. I expect that by this evening, they will be ready to view. It takes a while for the server to get the files, then create all the thumbnails, and black and white / sepia previews. After editing there are a little over 9600 images from the weekend! My wife has helped me to organize all of them by studio. We are trying to work as quickly as we can, so there are likely some mistakes in the filing. We did manage to find places for everyone, so there are no “unknown” studios this time. But if we made any errors, please let me know, so I can find the correct places for everyone to see their photos. We are really excited with how the photos came out! To be notified as soon as the photos are finished at the website, you can leave your email at the proofing website:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

Here are some of my favorite images from just off the dance floor.

General Dancing - Arthur Murray - ©TimeLine Media
General Dancing – Arthur Murray – ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles - ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles – ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles - ©TimeLine Media
Judges at the Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles – ©TimeLine Media

Spring Freestyles

The Westfields Marriott had a beautiful interior around the ballroom. We took advantage and got lots of photos in the atrium with the large chandelier. These photos were more than a little fun to make!

Arthur Murray Virginia Beach, VA - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Virginia Beach, VA – ©TimeLine Media

I’ll be posting so much more from this event in upcoming posts. There were great ones from the dancers, the Potomac Cup Team Match, and the professional shows. Hopefully all the photos will be ready very soon – stay tuned!

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Photo Proofing – Tech Thursday

Standard Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media

Still have thousands of photos waiting to go on the website! I am still working late in to the night and getting up early to get as much time to go through the photos. My email is mostly on hold, and I only check in to social networks sparingly to link to new blog posts from here. This is all because I want to get these photos onto the proofing site as soon as possible. Why does it take so long? The reason is I want the images to look as good as they can before they are released for viewing.

Baltimore Dancesport Challenge

Showcase Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Showcase Dance – ©TimeLine Media

Images that are out of focus and immediately deleted. For ballroom dance and other events, any photos where the hands or other objects are obscuring the main subject are also removed. All of our cameras are set to shoot RAW files. This is a less-refined version of the JPG files that are more common. Shooting in RAW allows us to recover more detail from photos where the flashes did not pop, or to adjust the exposure in post.

Standard Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Standard Ballroom Dance – ©TimeLine Media

In setting up the lights for competitive heats, we keep the flashes behind the photographers so they will light the faces of dancers as they pass in front. With ballroom dance floors being very large, there is a gradation of how far the flash will go. If dancers are closer to the photographers, they will be brighter than dancers that are farther away. Shooting in RAW means that there is a lot more data in each file that can be recovered. So to compensate for these differences, I can adjust the Exposure, Highlights or Shadow sliders in Adobe Lightroom to make the photos look similar to each other.

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships

Latin Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Latin Dance – ©TimeLine Media

With the change in the amount of flash, there can also be changes in the color temperature of the photos. We set the cameras to be balanced to the color of the flashes. However if they do not fire, the photos take a very warm, yellow/orange color. This can also be easily adjusted with the White Balance slider. You do not have as much leeway when using JPG files. So again, the RAW files are necessary for this kind of shoot. It does take lot of space on the hard drives, and it takes a lot of time to make the corrections, but I think it’s worth it!

Smooth Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Smooth Ballroom Dance – ©TimeLine Media

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Editing Spring Freestyles – dance photos

Samba professional show - ©TimeLine Media

Not a long post today as I am still editing the photos from last weekend’s events. The first one that I am working on is the DC Area Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles held last Friday and Saturday. We had some great photographers helping out to cover the split dance floor. There are close to 12,000 images to go through, edit, crop, and sort by studio, so I hope to have these done by Saturday. Please stay tuned to the blog for updates!

Arthur Murray Columbia - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Columbia – ©TimeLine Media 

For our booth, we displayed some nice large posters from the Columbia and Tysons Corner studios. They were the top two winners from the TimeLine Media Facebook contest! Although the original Columbia poster had all three shows on one, I decided to break them out separately. The dancers could have more exposure on each, and we could rotate the display a little. The studios were eager to have them which always makes us feel good to get the great response from them, and the other dancers attending the event! We will definitely do it again from the professional shows at the Freestyles. All the shows had some great moments, and I captures some good ones. It should be fun editing them after all the competitive heats.

Samba professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Samba professional show – ©TimeLine Media

If you do not want to wait for an update on the blog or the Facebook page, you can go to the proofing site now. There, I have a placeholder for the images from the Freestyles event. If you click on it, you can add your email address to the list to be notified as soon as the photos are ready to view. Here is the link:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com
Arthur Murray Columbia - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Columbia – ©TimeLine Media

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