I have finished the editing of the photos from last weekend’s Summer Showcase. My wife and I are sorting through the photos and separating the images by studio. They are uploading at the same time, so by tomorrow morning, they should be ready to view. I really enjoyed going through these photos, and I hope you enjoy them! It was a great event, and I will be posting more of my favorites from the day here on the blog. When the upload is ready, all the photos will be posted at the proofing website here:
Overall I am very proud of the work that me and the TimeLine Media team did for this event! In view of the many keeper photos, I know that it was worth our time. In order to pull this task off, it really takes a lot of support as no one person could do this job. If you attended the event and presented a routine, please stop by to see your photos!
When photographing ballroom dance events, the action on the dance floor is the focus. Especially at a Showcase event where there are choreographed routines that are performed by solo couples, the action photos take priority over all the other photos of the day. Other photos that I make during the day include the decorations, the table centerpieces, and posed portraits. Some dancers like to have their photos taken while not under the pressure of being in front of the audience and judges during their routines. I can understand! You can face the camera exactly how you want to be angled, and you can hold lines perfectly for the camera which is difficult to do while dancing.
This brings me to the point of the post today regarding memory cards. I took some photos off the floor of some couples at the event. In the hustle and bustle of the day, I did not download the card with these photo right away, and kept them in my Nikon D4. I then went back to photographing action with my other camera, a Nikon D700. When I started to run out of space on the card in the D700, I reached for the card in the D4 to continue shooting. One of the limitations of the older D700 is that this camera cannot display files created by the D4. It is also a good practice to format cards prior to using a new card to ensure that files are not corrupted when re-writing to a memory card. Well this is where my problem started. When I checked the D4 card in the D700, it said that there were no images on the card. So I reformatted the memory card before starting to use it in the D700. GONE! Of course, I did not discover this until yesterday as I was editing the photos from the event.
Is this still a common practice by photographers? Am I being too cautious by always reformatting cards prior to using them in a camera? If I had not done this to the card prior to shooting, I would likely still have the images. I am trying to see if any data recovery software could possibly get any of the images back, but I am not hopeful. Please let me know your thoughts on the subject!
As far as the initial editing of the images from last weekend’s Summer Showcase, I am about halfway done. There are just over 4000 left for me to go through prior to uploading them. Saturday is still on track for them to be released, but if there are any delays, I will announce it here and on the TimeLine Media Facebook page. At this time I did take a little peak at the end of the story – the professional formation and shows. My mom will do this same thing because she can’t wait to find out the ending to stories. I changed the lighting setup for these, and I just wanted to make sure they still worked! Thankfully, I am confident these will be good even with the change.
Since we changed the primary venue for these images, I have beem making small tweaks. Still, I know it could be tweaked more now that I am halfway done looking through the collection. To be sure, I like how these turned out! So please stay tuned, and hit the website when they are ready.
