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Expiring Ballroom Dance Events!

Arthur-Murray-Spring-Freestyles-©TimeLine-Media
Arthur-Murray-Spring-Freestyles-©TimeLine-Media

Summer is flying by! Although it does not seem like that long ago, the time has come to clean out more room on the web server for new events. There are three ballroom dance events that are expiring very soon at the TimeLine Media proofing website. These have been up for a while, and we have had lots of visitors.

Firstly, thanks to you that have come by and purchased your photos! I have even put together a couple of albums from these events. Overall this is a great way to share your images without having to be tethered to a tablet or smartphone. At this time, albums can be made from photos of any event we have covered. I put together a layout of your 12-20 favorite photos. After you approve the design, I send the layouts to the lab for printing and binding into a leather album. It is actually cheaper to get the prints in an album than as free prints! If you have any other questions, or would like to know more about our “Ballroom Brag Books” as we call them, please send me an email, or give me a call.

The three events that are expiring soon are:

2014 Baltimore Dancesport Challege – expires July 21, 2014

Arthur Murray 2014 Spring Freestyles – expires July 28, 2014

2014 River City Ballroom Dance Competition – expired August 4, 2014

Baltimore-Dancesport-Challenge-©TimeLine-Media
Baltimore-Dancesport-Challenge-©TimeLine-Media

I am scheduled to photograph a lot of exciting upcoming events in the next few weeks. I am shooting a couple of weddings, and there are a lot of happenings planned at Tysons Corner Center next week. Rest assured, I’ll be sure to share my adventures and images here on the blog and my other social media outlets. Have a nice weekend!

Baltimore-Dancesport-Challenge-©TimeLine-Media
Baltimore-Dancesport-Challenge-©TimeLine-Media

TimeLine Media – www.timelinedc.com
703-864-8208

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

TimeLine Media – www.timelinedc.com
703-864-8208

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

TimeLine Media – www.timelinedc.com
703-864-8208

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