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USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships Expiring

Bethesda, Maryland

Expiring in one week – the photos from the USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships photos. They were originally supposed to expire today, but I because it slipped on my schedule, I had the web service extend the deadline until next Monday. I want to give lots of notice to you before they are removed since it is harder to get to them once they go to the archives. There is now one week left to view and order photos from this event before the images are removed from the proofing website. Here is a direct link to all the photos:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

I am posting some of the images from this event since it has been a while since I have gone back to look at them. It does not seem like that long ago for this event, but it is time to make more room for other images on the website. This is the reason I need to move out these events after a few months.

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

USA Dance Expiring

If you visited the website already and ordered some of your favorites – thank you for supporting our photography! My team of photographers really worked hard to cover this 2 day event. We covered all the heats, and tried our best to capture everyone that competed. It was nice to see many familiar faces!

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – photos expiring ©TimeLine Media

The organizers, judges, and dancers were having fun catching up with us, and viewing their previews at our booth. It adds to the fun when we recognize many of you on the dance floor. We like to see you progress in levels, and take you dancing to the next level every year! Please pass along the link to our events to anyone that is new, or has not seen our work. It is always a great event to attend, and we hope to be invited back again next year.

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

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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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Sale Ending – Ballroom Dance Photos

Ballroom dance photo - Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media

Today is the last day to get the 20% off early-bird sale for ballroom dance photos from the 2014 USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships! The photos will still be available to view at the proofing website until June, but any purchases will go to the normal rates starting tomorrow. To clear up any confusion, the numbers that are at the website are not heat numbers. They are the numbers of the male dancers (leaders) that were worn during the competition. We tried to determine all the numbers as best we could, but there were a few that we could not find. These are listed as MADC-XX at the end of the collection. To see all the photos you can click the link below:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships

Ballroom dance photo - Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
Ballroom dance photo – Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

Thanks to everyone that has ordered their prints and digital files so far! I am busy putting in orders with the lab. If you placed an order last week, you should be receiving your prints very soon in the mail. If you do not want to wait to get your photos, the digital files are available for purchase. You are given a link to download your photo immediately after checkout, so you do not have to wait for me to get your images.

USA Dance 2014 Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance 2014 Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

These are just a few of our favorite images from the weekend. There are many more that I have in the collection, but will post more on the blog in future posts. If you want to help us make some prints for an upcoming event, please visit the TimeLine Media Facebook page where we are asking for opinions on the best collages from the Arthur Murray Fall Showcase professional shows. The two posters that gets the most Likes will be printed large for display at our next event. There are some clear front runners, but is still time to vote! I will count all the Likes on Friday before sending the posters for print.

USA Dance 2014 Mid-Atlantic Championships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance 2014 Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media

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703-864-8208

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