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Early September Canvas Sale

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Custom Wall Art

Happy September! This is a popular time for sales from the print labs as schools are getting back into session. The lab that I primarily use is having a canvas sale. From today, September 1, 2013 to next Sunday, September 8, 2013 prints are discounted. The prices have already been changed on the proofing website. With this in mind, no coupon or special codes are needed to receive the 20% off discount.

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©TimeLine Media - Arthur Murray Virginia Beach at the Spring Freestyles
©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray Virginia Beach at the Spring Freestyles

Canvas Sale

As I have noted, canvas prints have become a popular way to hang art on your walls. These prints are a more contemporary presentation of images, without frames, or borders. However, if you would like a more traditional setting, these can be placed into wood frames, or created with a color border surrounding the edges. At this time I have many of my personal prints hanging in my house this way. Mine are grouped into collections for wall spaces. I especially enjoy the reaction people have from seeing large, custom-made photographs in my home. Of course I appreciate having paintings or reprints of famous photos, but as personal as photography is to me, it is a perfect way to present my craft to family and visitors.

Example of canvas print collection
Example of canvas print collection

So much of my photography is from the ballroom dance floor. Many customers have emailed, and we have created nice groupings of canvas prints for their spaces. While some are on walls, some have them gone up staircases, others have been placed in their entertainment rooms where they practice some of their dancing. Unlike paper prints, it is much easier to hang these as larger prints – they come with rubber bumpers, and framing wire already attached so you just need to mount a picture frame hook to hang these pieces. If you have any questions about them, please let me know! I can help you measure out a good size for a space you were thinking, and can recommend images if you have a few in mind. My email is rassi @ timelinedc.com, phone 703-864-8208.

©TimeLine Media - dancing at the American Star Ball
©TimeLine Media – dancing at the American Star Ball

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Sports Photographer Idols – Part 3

©TimeLine Media - USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Champsionships - ballroom dance

In two previous posts, here and here, I wrote about lessons learned from studying another sports photographer to improve my own photography. I will be going out to another sporting event today, and will be on the look out for more inspiration. Another lesson that Dave Black will emphasize with action sports photography is gear. Yes, this aspect of photography can be really overdone! In the competitive world of sports photography, it can be determining factor in whether you can survive shooting only sports.

Photography Kit

If the people around you are shooting at 200mm, you need to get a 300mm length lens. Comparatively if everyone is shooting at 400mm length, you need to get a 600mm length lens. If everyone has an 800mm lens, you need to stick a teleconverter on your lens to extend passed 800mm. Moreover if this sounds like an incredibly expensive “arms race”, it is. But it is hard to argue in an age where everyone has access to good camera bodies, and long lenses – where iPhone and tablet photos can pass as publishable images for newspapers and websites. Photographers also need to up their game in terms of equipment, and putting that equipment in places where everyone else does not have access.

©TimeLine Media - ballroom dancing at the 2013 American Star Ball
©TimeLine Media – ballroom dancing at the 2013 American Star Ball
©TimeLine Media - Baltimore Dancesport Challenge
©TimeLine Media – Baltimore Dancesport Challenge

The last point that stuck with me from Dave, is positioning of the photographer with relationship to his subjects. When shooting sports, it is important to get down low to the ground. The subject you are aiming for, if they are down the field, will look like they are right in your plane of view. And when they start to move towards you, then will look larger and fill up the frame making for an “hero” shot composition. Viewers will be drawn to the main subject. They will look powerful and dominate the frame which is the goal in most action images – even from the dance floor!

Sports Photographer

The sports photographer will be on the ground with knee pads or stretched out just off the edge of the dance floor trying to get the camera to places that people in the audience or in the stands would not be able to get their camera. This is their job, and why they are given the task and position in the venue. If they do not take advantage of their setting, then smartphone and tablet images will become more acceptable. And exceptional sports imagery will no longer be sought after by editors, and customers.

©TimeLine Media - Arthur Murray Summer Showcase
©TimeLine Media – Arthur Murray Summer Showcase
©TimeLine Media - USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Champsionships - ballroom dance
©TimeLine Media – USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Champsionships – ballroom dance

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703-864-8208

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Sports Photographer Idols – Part 2

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Covering Sports

In a previous post, I wrote about a sports photographer that I observed while shooting from the sidelines of a professional football game. Another photographer that I have seen through online videos and blogs is Dave Black. He has been published in all the major sports magazines and has covered the BIG events. These include multiple Olympic Games and championship finals. Not only is his photography portfolio stocked with amazing images, but he is a big proponent of sharing his knowledge with fellow photographers. Through educational workshops, he openly shares from his experiences to help other photographers improve their skill level. Here is one of the lessons that he emphasizes when I have seen him teach.

Photographers have to be in the right position

The audience is there to experience the action and performance of athletes. It is the photographer’s job to record their performance and convey the story of the action to viewers that are not at the event. Even though you can be right on the sideline, there can be many distractions that can get in the way of capturing the moment, so photographers much anticipate this, and prepare to be in the best spot.

Sometimes you are lucky, and the action comes directly to you, and sometimes, it is halfway across the field. The background in the action is also especially important – it cannot be too distracting, or it will take viewer’s eyes away from the subject. For me, I am looking to see where dancers will be holding their lines to the audience. This is where the best photos will come. Sometimes, though, it will be to the opposite side of the ballroom, but I must take my best guess as a sports photographer.

©TimeLIne Media - ballroom dance action photo from the American Star Ball
©TimeLIne Media – ballroom dance action photo from the American Star Ball

Dance Photography

Dancers will sometimes repeat the order that they do their figures. Additionally if they are in multiple heats, or there are quarterfinals, semifinals, etc. you can have a chance at catching them in the next round. It is really satisfying to catch a moment in a routine that I saw in a previous dance. Perhaps I missed it because I was focused on another dancer. Or I was not in the right position with respect to the dancers. I remember these moments long after the weekend is over, and more than likely keep those photos in my portfolio.

©TimeLIne Media - ballroom dance action photo from an Arthur Murray professional show
©TimeLIne Media – ballroom dance action photo from an Arthur Murray professional show

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