Dance Crews!!! ~Howard School of Dance :)

first i want to apologize to these amazing dancers. these took me forever!!! i started with over 700 pics and had the hardest time narrowing them down without going blind. i finally got their dance instructor involved in the final selections about a week ago. (she went blind too) ;). we shot these in early december! thank you for your patience!!! even though you were warned it'd take awhile, i didn't hear a peep from anyone :).
what a day for 2 seriously pregnant women!! kelly (their instructor) and i were both 7ish months pregnant and we shot for 5 hours i believe. i was on the ground for the majority of it. (i couldn't walk the next day) haha :) the location looks pretty clean huh? that's called editing. that place though SWEET for pics, was dirty and smelled of mold like nobody's business!!! i was reminded yesterday of a bat carcass we stumbled on. YUM! so kuddos to these kids and the parents for braving it for so long :). not to mention it was (if memory serves me correctly) 17 degrees outside? which meant about 20 inside?? no electricity, no heat, no lights, just overcast sky peeking in through the windows. for photographers, i'm au natural - own no flash but have a crappy set of lights that i didn't drag along because there was no electricity anyway. so ya'll know these are grainy from iso crankage (is it a word?) ;) and when you see some of these actions shots with backlighting to boot, you'll know just how difficult they were to capture. i am THRILLED with the outcome considering all the road blocks for sure! heck, we almost lost the location due to a miscommunication and were about to shoot outside at the location we used last time! (check it out!) everyone was like uhhhhhhhhhh....seriously??? haha :) it all worked out though. thank you thank you thank you for being amazing and busting through these shots so we could all go warm up ;). YOU ROCK!


XOXOXOXO

here's a link to Howard School of Dance just in case anyone wants it :)

FIRST CREW: Neverquit Dance Crew (NQDC)

RIGHT????? :)

Christa - AFRICA - in my unprofessional opinion, you win Christa - this is killer!!!

Alyssa - DRIFFTA

Kayla - ECHO -you may recognize her from her senior shoot :)

Sabrina - SPOTLIGHT

Samantha - TRICK

Jair - MINIME

Kaitlyn - ROGUE

Ellen - JELLIN - another one of my senior girls :)

Kyle - SPYNZ

Megan - SLINKI

Taylor - DIGIT

Elise - E SQUEEZY



SECOND CREW: AP Hip Hop

Chris - DIGGY

Alexis - FLIPZ - Alexis, i think you might win the sweetest jump in your crew :) love lil' v and diggy's jumps too :)

Victoria - LIL' V

Elizabeth - FREEZE MACHINE

Gabby - GBABY

Timmy - SKULL

Sarah - PRINCE$$

Maddy - EMCEE