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The photos from the 2013 USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships have been released! You can now go to our proofing website:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

No password or access code is needed to view the photos. Please share the link with your family and friends that would like to view! We have organized the photos by dancer number so you don’t have to go through thousands of other photos to find yours. If there are any mistakes, please let me know. There were a few that we could not identify, and those have been listed under “unknowns” along with their style. If you have any trouble finding your photos, please contact me directly. I’d be happy to help you find your photos. There is an early-bird sale price for all orders placed until March 11, 2013

Competition Organizers

In the spirit of the Oscars, I have a lot of people to thank for helping to make these great images. First, the organizers from the Mid-Eastern Chapter of USA Dance, Joe, Jack, and Dave that are very helpful to us. They helped us to get setup and organized for the whole weekend. They let me and my photographers have great access to the floor during the Mid-Atlantic Championships.

Next, I’d like to thank Rachel, Shanna, Mario, and Jae for helping me to cover the event by using their photography and stamina skills to shoot many hours of dancing over the course of two days. There were lots of photos, but I think we covered the event as best we could. 

Mid-Atlantic Championship Dancers

To the dancers, I admire the work that you put into your dancing through practices, coaching, and rehearsing with your partners. Ballroom dancing is a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of effort and guts to be confident enough to go in front of judges and and audience to show off your skills. Continued luck with your dancing in the future, and I hope to see you again in my camera soon!

Thanks to my wife who worked hard all last weekend to go through photos, and this weekend to go through them again to categorize them by number. We get better every time, but it’s always quite a feat to finish one of these. BRING ON THE NEXT ONE!!

I’ll rest for a bit, but I do have more exciting photos to come this weekend. Stay tuned to the blog for those!

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The uploading of the photos is continuing! There are 9780 photos in total, so it does take a while to get on the web, but they will be up there soon! Also, there are many folders going up since we sorted them by the gentleman’s number. Thanks for checking out the blog! All the photos will be posted to the proofing website here-

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

As can be seen, you can order your images in black and white. Unlike the color images, these monochrome tones can highlight the lines of the dancers. Especially when you have a colorful dress, this can distract from the work you put into your dancing.

From a photographer perspective, black and white is a departure from reality. For the most part, people see in color. With this in mind, changing a photo monochrome starts you on the path to artistic freedom. Taking the image above for example, I darkened the areas surrounding the dancers to make the pop out even more. When the photo was desaturated, I thought that the other dancers, the audience, and the room did not add much to the composition. So I darkened those attempting to make it clearer. How did it work?

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At this time the editing is completed from last weekend’s USA Dance 2013 Mid-Atlantic Championships! This is likely the slowest part of the post process. When going through all the photos, I crop photos if needed to focus on a couple in the frame. Moreover, some color balance will need to be done to try to make the colors consistent over the complete collection.

Subsequently, the photos are now being sorted, and uploaded, which will take a little more time. We have just over 9700 photos from the weekend. We are sorting them by number so that you don’t have to look through thousands of other people’s photos to get to yours. For this reason, we take the time to make it easier for visitors. It is a balancing act of getting lots of photos of all the dancers, but making them easy to find.

If you have any trouble finding your photos, you can call or email me at rassi at timelinedc.com. Of course, I will post here as soon as the photos are ready to view. Thanks again for your patience, and I can’t wait for you to see these! Overall, I think we made some great photos last weekend!

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