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Ballroom Dancing


Ballroom Dancing
Photo Information
Copyright: Fred NEF (Freddie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1445 W: 108 N: 1155] (6323)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04
Categories: Artwork, Decisive Moment, Experimental, Nocturnal, Mood
Camera: Canon PowerShot A640
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/60 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-27 7:29
Viewed: 734
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Ballroom Dancing
It's very timely in posting this photo as I am beginning to paint again after a decade of artistic dormancy :)
At the same time, I am determined to enroll in a dance school that I hope I can learn and be good at it :)

Ballroom Dancing, formal, social dance form enjoyed by couples as a recreation, or competitively, when it is known as dancesport.

The term ballroom dancing was originally applied to dances performed in a ballroom or a formal setting as opposed to folk or country dancing. The distinction between folk dance and ballroom dancing was established with the formulation of a technique that stipulated positions and steps. Examples of early ballroom dances are the minuet and other court dances of 18th-century France (such as the quadrille, which became especially popular in the 1850s); cotillion; contredanse; the lancers; and, later, the polka and the Viennese waltz.

Ballroom dancing in its modern sense refers to a number of close couple dances that became popular in the 20th century: the slow waltz, the foxtrot, the quickstep, and the tango in the first half of the century; with the advent of large dance orchestras and dance bands of the 1930s playing different rhythms, more Latin dances such as the cha-cha, the rumba, the bossa nova, the merengue, the paso doble, the samba, lindy hop (also known as jitterbug or swing), the jive, the mambo; and, eventually, rock and roll in the latter half. Other modern ballroom dances are the salsa, ceroc, and the twist.

-Microsoft ® Encarta ®

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Trek Note: We were lost in our roadtrip going out of Providence, Rhode Island. While my companion was reading the map, I went out of the car and see the vicinity. I saw this beautiful painting on an easel. I like palette painting for it can never be replicated easily by normal printing because of the palette and brush strokes and the thickness of paint applied to a surface.

Composition:
POV: 4 feet, behind a clear glass
Source of Light: Spot light (warm light)
Time/Weather: 9pm/3°C, cloudy

Pp work:
1. vignette (darken the sides of the picture by the burn tool)
2. clone out a dot of reflection from the glass
3. resize from 5.3mp to 196kb

Quote of the Day:
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
-Tony Benn
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  • luisa Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 393 W: 0 N: 73] (1382)
  • [2007-04-27 7:47]
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Love the composition!
Beautifull!

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Really lovely image as well as a great painting!

This work here, is excellent, because you chose the 'same angle' as the artist on the work. Goos details.
FHave a great day Fred:)
david

Hi Fred,

Wow, didn't expect you to paint this one. Good painting indeed. You're damn creative. :D

TFS,
Hong

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  • Perro Silver Star Critiquer [C: 26 W: 0 N: 21] (294)
  • [2007-04-27 15:17]
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Hello Fred,
La photo est à la hauteur de l'oeuvre du peintre et lui rend un bel hommage.
Belle composition, grande netteté qui nous donne tous les détails du tableau.
Bien cadré, l'angle est parfait pour la disposition de la toile.
Le jeu d'ombres et de lumières est impeccable.
Bravo Fred!
Janette

Ganda ng composition. I like the way you used the lighting and its shadows. Nice vignetting. An art within an art. well seen freddie.. tfs

jowhite

Use sawdust in your acrylpaint for reliëf - sand is relatively heavy. When you make a painting you are pleased with I love to see it!
Great joyful painting this one is.
Great to have the ability to do this very good PP job.
TFS
Els
:)volgen

Hello Fred,

Wonderful job!
I like it very much.
Congratulations!
TFS.
Sergio

i like the shadows in the background, it makes it all so alive, graet colored painting. wonderful compo!
tfs

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1666 W: 136 N: 1263] (6138)
  • [2007-04-28 15:27]
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Hi Fred,
very nice work, I love the ambinace. The shadows in the BG frame this piece of art perfectly.
Very well done.
Sky

Hi Fred. A very creative angle and presentation of this painting on the stand. Good shadow effects make it something rather unusual and becoming. TFS. Murray.

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