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Ballroom Dance, Event, Photography | 0 comment

2019 Winter Showcase Expiring

DC Area Arthur Murray Studios

Next Monday, May 4, the 2019 Winter Showcase photos are expiring at TimeLine Media. Thank you to everyone that supported out photography with purchases from this event! We really enjoy seeing them posted on social media – thanks for tagging us in the photos. To view and share the photos, here is the link:

Arthur Murray 2019 Winter Showcase photos at TimeLine Media

Competition is nice, however, professional shows are my favorite! Now that an professional competition is a more regular occurrence, I appreciate these even more. Comparatively, the crowd is more settled. Similar to a tennis match, they do not want to distract the dancers. However, they still have the same excitement internally. In similar fashion, I sometimes wish my camera shutter was quieter on a gentler show. Given that I still need to get the photos, I forge on. Soon, I get over it since I know you can’t hear the sounds in the still photos later. Without a doubt, I had plenty of candidates for posters from these shows. I made some to display at the recent Spring Freestyles! It’s a great way to illustrate what these studios can do. It also attracts people to join us for the next one!

2019 Fall Showcase professional show by the Gaithersburg, Maryland studio ©TimeLine Media
2019 Fall Showcase professional show by the Columiba, Maryland studio ©TimeLine Media

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Quarantine 1 – Staying Busy

Staying Home

Neighborhood stream photographed during a daily quarantine walk in Falls Church, VA ©TimeLine Media
Neighborhood stream photographed during a daily quarantine walk

This quaratine time has been a tremendous change to our daily life. Everyone I am in contact with is working from home. Video conference calls are a daily event. Thankfully in this high tech time, everything is working!

What are you doing during this time that we are forced to stay at home? On one hand, I am working very similarly to how I did before. On the other, I have no photo shoots or events to plan. With this in mind, I have turned to working on my business. While I work at home, I have been listening to many podcasts and YouTube channels of other creatives. Similarly, the content has moved in parallel directions. There are tips on keeping productive, on cleaning up your contracts, on honing photography skills inside etc.

Holmes Run in Falls Church, VA stream in infrared ©TimeLine Media
Holmes Run stream in infrared

Quarantine 1

In contrast, I am not looking for things to do while staying at home. If I am successful with my efforts, my blog will hopefully look a lot more full! It has been an aspiration of mine to get back to blogging which I did more regularly. Seeing that it was a great way to document the photos shoots, and to remember what the environment was like when I made the photos.

Given that I enjoyed reviewing these posts, I want to go back to old events, and put them on the blog. At the same time, I will attempt to keep current with the posts as well. The photos from this Quaratine 1 post are from some of the daily walks. Every day we are taking walks, and bring a camera with me. These were taken with my first DSLR camera – the Nikon D100. It has a very low megapixel count, and I converted it to only capture infrared light.

So far it has been enough to capture something different when repeatedly passing the same areas over the last month! I hope you are staying safe at home. If you are getting around to do things that you were putting off until you had time to get to it, please let me know. Maybe there is something I should be doing that I have not thought to do yet.

Quaratine 1 walk through a neighborhood park, Falls Church, VA ©TimeLine Media
Quarantine 1 walk through a neighborhood park

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Family, Headshots, Personal, Photography, Portrait, Technology | 0 comment

Profoto A1 High Speed Sync and Cherry Blossoms – Tech Tuesday

Woman portrait with cherry blossom background
Woman portrait with cherry blossom background
Falls Church cherry blossom tree in full bloom

Falls Church cherry blossom tree in full bloom

The cherry blossom have been in full bloom around the DC Area. This year, they have been particularly beautiful! They have the light puff ball look with very light colored blooms that really stands out against the bark of the surrounding trees.

Falls Church cherry blossom tree in full bloom

During this time of quarantine, I have been productive in my home studio. But keeping inside means I have not been going out of the house to make many photos. I know there are many projects that you can do while staying at home, but this was the first really purpose-driven photos I have done in a week. I was inspired do these first by the beautiful cherry tree of our neighbor that was in full bloom!

Camera Tech

Camera setup BTS for portrait shoot
Profoto A1, Nikon D850, blooming cherry tree

Next, I wanted to try the Hi Speed Sync options of the Profoto A1 flashes. This is a new piece of gear that I am still learning. I may be replacing all of my lighting gear to Profoto I the near future. If this does in fact come true, I will be sure to make a post about the reasons for it. But for this quick test shoot, I mounted one of the A1 flashes firing into a Westcott Rapid Box Octa with the outer diffusion panel installed. I did not use the deflector plate as the A1 does not completely fit the cut out for the speedlight on the back of the Octabox. The A1 has a circular face at its output and most speedlights are rectangular.

I used another Profoto A1 as a remote controller for the off-camera light, and it worked right away! The flash could keep up at 1/1000th to 1/8000th of a second, and it was still filling the entire frame with an even exposure. I am anxious to try this setup again as I really like the results. The resulting images were much more in balance with the background compared to an exposure without the flash. I was impressed with this first high speed sync experiment with this gear!

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