Just a quick post today! There is one public event that is expiring early in February. At this time the photos from the 2013 DC Dance Challenge will expire on Monday February 10, 2014. I will send out an email blast to the mailing list to let everyone know on there when they are about to be removed, but I wanted to give lots of heads up for this one. I hope all of you have a great weekend!
All the photos are organized by the man’s number. If you have any trouble finding your photos, please send me an email [ rassi @ timelinedc.com ] or call 703-864-8208.
Overall, we want to thank Jennifer and Fabio Bonini for inviting us to their event. On this occasion, the full dance floor made the job of finding dancers throughout the event very easy! We are also selecting photos for the top student awards. Stay tuned for updates!
Happy Monday! Today is the last day to view and order photos from the 2013 DC Area Arthur Murray Fall Freestyles. The photos will be removed from the website tonight, and will be put in the electronic archive.
Please note!! I have changed my main website, which has made changes to the proofing website. No longer do you put “www.” in front of the address for the proofing site. If you are looking for your photos from recent events, putting the “www.” in front of the proofing address will result in an error. If you have bookmarked the site, or have it written down somewhere, please update all the links to not have this prefix. The correct address will be:
While we are talking about websites, please take a look at my brand new main website! It is at www.timelinedc.com with an updated design, and lots of updated images. You may find your own photo up there too! Please visit, and send me some feedback – especially if something does not work correctly. It has been a big project to change this, and I am very pleased with how it has turned out. I am looking forward to making lots of new images this year, and I can’t wait to get started!
When creating high dynamic range or HDR photos, you need to make multiple exposures of the same scene. However, the images need to be made at difference exposure values. Between each time you fire the shutter, you only change the shutter speed. Afterwards you have a set of photos that have the same composition, but differ in the amount of exposure. In this case half will be under exposed, half will be over exposed. One will have the exposure set by the meter.
These three images were exposed (from left to right) for 1/3200th second, 1/400th second, 1/100th second, at an aperture of f/5.6 for all. For the final image, I had a total of 9 exposures that were combined to make the HDR file. To ensure you have good images to work with, it helps to make these exposures as fast as you can. If your position moves, or elementes in the frame move between each exposure, it will be more post work. In software you need to correct these, It adds to the long post processing of these files. Many modern DSLRs have functions and tools that will help.
In my Nikon camera, I can use the “Bracketing” function to set the camera to take a series of exposures that vary in shutter speed. Holding this BKT button, and moving the main command dial will bring up this dialog box in the mail LCD screen:
What this screen is showing it that the camera will take 9 frames with 1.0 stops of light between each exposure. You can change this to be 7, 5, or 3 frames, and you can change the differences of stops between each to be 0.3, 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0 (!) stops of light difference between each. From my experience, having 9 frames with a stop between each frame will cover more than an adequate amount for most situations. You may have to change depending on your particular subject, but this has worked for me very well in both indoor and outdoor photos.
