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Ballroom Dance, Event, Photography, Technology | 0 comment

Website Updates for Memorial Day Weekend

Website Updates

It has been a busy week at the TimeLine Media websites! The long weekend for Memorial Day is here. It is time to take a little break to look back at some exciting updates on the website. Thanks to everyone that has visited the proofing website to view the 2014 American Star Ball photos! I am so happy that many of you have found images that you would like to have printed or shared online. There is an early-bird sale for all purchases made at the website until June 9, 2014.

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

2014 American Star Ball - ©TimeLine Media
2014 American Star Ball – ©TimeLine Media

Other updates include the blog site you are reading right now. Unless you are on an RSS reader you may have noticed that there is a change to the look of the blog. After a few years of the old design, it was time for a change. Thanks to some of the regular visitors to the blog that noticed some of the errors popping up. If any of you notice that there are still some things that need to be fixed, please send me an email: Rassi at timelinedc.com

Arthur Murray Gaithersburg poter - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Gaithersburg poster – ©TimeLine Media

Finally, I wanted to post about the Facebook poll about the upcoming Arthur Murray Summer Showcase. I have made posters from each of the professional shows from the Spring Freestyles. They are a bit of a departure from my usual images as I posted yesterday. I wanted to give the Analog Efex Pro 2 plugin a run with some of my images to see what it could do. It is definitely much more than an “Instagram-like” filter with all of the option and control you have over the adjustments, and can be a very useful tool for photographers. Please check out all 8 of the posters at the TimeLine Media Facebook page, and like your favorites. I will count up the Likes on Sunday, and the 2 posters with the most votes will be printed to display at the June 1 showcase. Happy Memorial Day!

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Content Creation Milestones

Dancers in black and white - ©TimeLine Media

At the end of 2013, I looked back, and I realized that I kept a resolution that I stipulated a year prior to blog at least once a day. To say that I learned a lot would be an understatement of a large degree. I was thinking so much more about why I do things, I sought the opinions of other bloggers and what they wanted to accomplish with their writing. With my focus on photography, I had lots of content that I had not written about as these events and projects were progressing. I thought that I would need to dip into that pool of projects to keep going when new ideas or images were not made throughout the year. In fact, I still have a list of things that I have not blogged about event after a year of daily postings.

Washington, DC

Lincoln Memorial - HDR Image - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial – HDR Image – ©TimeLine Media

There are a few content makers out there that really crank out posts multiple times a day. I knew that I could not do that being just one person. When would I have time to make new photos? There are many photographers, writers, comedians, sports reporters, that blog articles daily. It took me a while to see what they were doing, and to jump in myself. This was despite the fact that I would read their content multiple times a day. I knew I had some things to contribute, and I had a WordPress blog already setup. It was only the commitment that was needed to really get the ball rolling. It is now a part of daily routine. If it is getting late in the afternoon, I feel the tug of the keyboard to get something down. It is as much for me as for anyone else that happens to come across the site.

©TimeLine Media - Piano Keys
©TimeLine Media – Piano Keys

For everyone that has come across my posts and written comments and urged me to continue – Thank you! To all the writers, photographers, podcasters, and other content creators that are sharing their creations online with their audiences – Thank you! I hope that I can contribute more than noise to the online community. I love creating and sharing new images that hopefully get better as I write and analyze the photos over time. And it is my hope to make them better each time I hit the “Publish” button.

Dancers in black and white - ©TimeLine Media
Dancers in black and white – ©TimeLine Media

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One Year of Blogging!

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media

It has been a year since I recommitted myself to blogging every day in 2013. What an experience it has been for me! There are many photographers in the blogosphere that inspired me to do this. I first saw a lot of people with “Photo 365” blogs where they would post a photo each day. Overall, that did not seem to reach the goals that I was looking to accomplish. I wanted to get more traffic to my website, and more exposure to potential clients and subjects.

Daily Posting

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media
2013 Self Portrait – ©TimeLine Media

One benefit from blogging every day is that it documents what is going on throughout the year more in depth than a daily journal could. The topics from the blog came from what was on top of mind at the time – upcoming events to cover, new techniques I was learning, as well as looking back to recent shoots and whether or not they were successful. I did not think that blogging would help my photography, but it definitely has! I now have a regular outlet to post and share my images where I can explain what was going on, what I was thinking – much more than I can on Facebook or other social networks.

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media
2013 Self Portrait – ©TimeLine Media

Will I continue to blog in 2014? I think it is safe to say yes! I have really enjoyed getting to learn how to complete awriting assignment every day. The challenge to come up with topics and write more than 2 sentences is helpful in the sound-bite / 140-characted limited world. It has helped me to remember settings, and approaches better, and has helped me to setup for new shoots. If I take off a day or two, please do not be too harsh, but I still have a string of topics I would like to write about. With new subjects and events lining up for 2014 already and some changes that I have been planning starting to come online, I am sure I will have more to add to the list in no time.

2013 Self Portrait - ©TimeLine Media
2013 Self Portrait – ©TimeLine Media

Happy New Year!

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