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Date Posted: Mon, Jul 10 2023, 11:48:13"
Author: Milton Baar
Subject: As we approach the AIO, I am reposting this from 2019 :)

10 tips for Irish Dancers from your friendly feis photographers
1. You dance amazing steps, sometimes three at a time on the stage. If there is only one photographer, they won’t get your most amazing tricks or lifts as they are trying to get photos of every dancer.
2. If your knickers or bloomers are visible from the back when you are standing still, most photos of you will include them.
3. If the stage lighting has been set so there are patches of light and dark on stage, many of your photos will be either too bright or too dark.
4. If you wear black and dance against a black backdrop, your photos will be few… and dark; this is worse for men/boys who often dance in black without any colour at all.
5. You have been practising your amazing choreography for months and expect the photographer to capture all the best bits; the photographer is seeing your choreography for the first time ever and will have to learn your best bits during the first step you dance.
6. Your choreography probably sounds amazing; it may photograph badly if there are no lifts, jumps, over-two-threes, birds etc. and every photo will look the same.
7. Your dancing energy is captured by the photographer; if you are flat, the photos will be too.
8. Dancers dance to the music, photographers rely on the music to capture the perfect shot; if you are out of time, the photos will be too.
9. Sometimes, almost every photo of you dancing has your eyes closed; that is exactly how you were for that 1/320th of a second.
10. Smiling during presentations, even when you didn’t achieve the place you wanted, makes you look amazing in the photos.

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