Legendary Athletics BTS 2023

 We know they grow up, but please stop!! To our class of 2023 Seniors, congratulations! 

To our littles, we look forward to many years of watching you grow up too. 

It's always bittersweet and enjoyable. 

Thank you to the parents who believe in us and trust the process.

 We are always grateful for the opportunity! 

And to the coaches- you are amazing and we are glad to call you friends:)

Behind The Scenes at Kinetic Dance Force 2022

 

Thank you Kinetic Dance Force family for spending your day with us! 

We enjoyed meeting all of you & watching your dancers light up in front of the camera:) 

We always look forward to seeing their silly side come out too because we already know they've got talent!

Behind The Scenes at Empire Dance Studio

 

New beginnings are exciting and fun! 

Thank you Empire Dance Studio for being so welcoming! 

We truly enjoyed making new memories with you all and hope you enjoy your dancers goofiness for the camera because we did! :)

Encore Dance Studio Behind the Scenes 2022

Encore, we always enjoy our photo days with your dance family! 

You all are kind & thoughtful! Annie & Nicky we are always grateful for the chance to continue to photograph your beautiful dancers! 

Enjoy the silly side of your dancers & congratulations on your new dance location!

Perfect Pointe BTS Day 2

 

Congratulations on a wonderful 2022 recital! 

Enjoy your silly dancers antics on picture day! 

D and L Dance Center BTS 2022

 Each studio we take photos at has a unique quality. Each owner, instructor, parent and dancer has something different-and we love it! No studio is the same. It's amazing how different they all are, yet so much the same! 

The main thing we notice all of the time is the time and dedication it takes to commit as an instructor, owner, dancer and parent. We appreciate the time put into learning, teaching, traveling, etc. It's a COMMITMENT for certain! 

As you can see in these photos, it's great to take a moment and be silly in between the daily work. We love our dance families and appreciate the opportunity to be a part of your lives for a few days each year! Enjoy the video!

Legendary Athletics BTS 2022

 

Another year of seeing these athlete's growth! 

Legendary holds a special place in our hearts as our daughter danced there for many years!

 This is her first season away at college and we were happy to see familiar and new fam(ily) during picture days!

As always enjoy the video and congratulations on your wonderful year of accomplishments in cheer and dance!! 

#WeAreLA

 

BTS at Perfect Pointe Productions 2022

 A day full of fun with Perfect Pointe Productions!! We appreciate the opportunity to see these smiling faces again! So many familiar faces and new ones too! 

Thank you Mrs. Kendall, staff, dancers and parents for another great day of memories!

Best of luck at competition!

Enjoy the video!

Ace Gymnastics BTS video 2022

We are grateful for some silly normalcy! 

 The athletes at Ace Gymnastics in 

Longwood, Florida brought their best form

 and usual style to their picture day!! 

 The coaches worked tirelessly to keep 

everyone picture perfect too! 

We appreciate the hard work and dedication that is put into these elite sports!

We've had another amazing day photographing 

all the teams and asking the athletes 

to show their "silly sides"! It's a whole other talent haha!

Good luck to everyone this season! Enjoy!

Legendary Athletics BTS 2021

 We had a GREAT time capturing these memories at Legendary Athletics in Longwood, Florida last weekend!!  The talent and dedication from all these young athletes is wonderful to see, not to mention the tremendous talent behind the talent.. the coaches!!!!!!!

Aspire Multimedia & Photography was happy to be back at Legendary after the unprecedented Covid situation. We've had another great year photographing all the teams and getting the athletes to "show their funny sides" to the camera.

Good luck to everyone in the coming weeks at all of your competitions!

Here's the "Behind the Scenes" video of our weekend shoot!  Enjoy!

Behind the Scenes at Clermont Academy of Dance Clermont

Behind the Scenes at 

Clermont Academy of Dance

Clermont, FL

June 2020

Our team had a great time this past weekend with all the talented dances on the photo set and on the virtual recital stage!!!  

Thank you Ms. Karen for the opportunity this year to capture the memories for all the CAD families!

Here is the Behind the Scenes video of all the funny faces and smiles we captured.

We hope you enjoy them and looking forward to delivering photos in the coming weeks :)

BTS Legendary Athletics Photo Week 2018

What a fabulous time capturing these memories at Legendary Athletics in Longwood, Florida a couple of week ago!!  The talent and dedication from all these young athletes, not to mention the tremendous talent behind the talent.. the coaches!!!!!!!

Aspire Multimedia & Photography had another great year photographing all the teams and getting the athletes to "show their funny sides" to the camera.

Good luck to everyone in the coming weeks during your final challenges in the competitive world!!

Here's the "Behind the Scenes" video of the week long shoot!  Enjoy

Behind the Scenes during Photo Week at Legendary Athletics

Last week, we had a blast photographing some Legendary athletes! Legendary Athletics in Longwood, Florida is an allstar gym with a superior cheer and dance program. Not only are the athletes amazing, so are the coaches and staff! We had many moments of laughter and good times spending each day capturing group and individual poses. Each time we have an individual athlete in front of the camera we ask them to make a silly face. The video shows  some outtakes of our week of smiley, silly, spunky, perky, talented athletes and coaches allowing us to capture a moment in time. A moment that we know they will cherish for years to come!  As we said, it was a really enjoyable week of pictures, but better yet, sharing time with athletes who are definitely LEGENDARY!

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.-Usain Bolt

WSF The Groove in Louisville KY Legendary Athletics

What an amazing time traveling to Louisville KY last month with all the talented athletes from Legendary Athletics for the WSF The Groove Experience!!  Their performances were AMAZING! 
Youth Elite: 1st Place!
Junior Elite: 1st Place and Grand Champs with Full Paid Bid to Summit!!
Senior Large: 2nd Place and an At Large Worlds Bid!


Legendary Athletics has competitive dance and cheer team so make sure you check them out at www.LegendaryAthletics.com  The coaches are amazing, talented and most of all positively encouraging! We are thankful to be a part of the Legendary family and look forward to what else this season holds!

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WSF Bay Area Classic at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, FL

This weekend was full of excitement and great performances by many teams at the . All of the performers were excellent and it was a fun event! Our daughter, Chloe, is a team member of Legendary Athletics located in Longwood, Florida.  This was her teams first performance of the competition season and they won first place overall and received a full paid bid to Summit! Wow, what a start to the season! 
Legendary Athletics has competitive dance and cheer team so make sure you check them out at www.LegendaryAthletics.com  The coaches are amazing, talented and most of all positively encouraging! We are thankful to be a part of the Legendary family and look forward to what else this season holds!

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The power of RAW!

I had to share this before-after to demonstrate what can happen during a shoot. For some reason, the strobes did not fire. I knew I had a great shot as soon as I snapped it. But... when I went to the laptop and noticed a black image, I felt my stomach hit the ground! I missed it!!! Arrrgggggg &^%#$#!@@#$

After the shoot, I went and decided to visit this "dark" image and see what bumping up the exposure would reveal. I knew it... it WAS the look I was striving for with my son, Luke. I did ask him to get back in front of the camera for a quick re-take but as we both knew... it was a long shot so we just went on.

Call me stubborn, but I just cranked all the settings to the max and performed some magic... the above AFTER photo. I'm pretty happy with it, and so is Luke.

Big lesson for the day... shoot your images in RAW. You never know what spectacular image you would miss if you didn't.

Just in time. Here's a dancer going places!

Happy Friday! It's been a long week and finally had the chance to edit this photo we took of Samantha Frahn this past weekend!!   More images just around the corner.  But in the mean time.....

Don’t forget this weekend is Spring forward! We lose an hour of our day! Saturday night/Sunday early morning at about 2am set your clocks forward 1 hour.

So now that you know you’re losing an hour, do you know why?? And other interesting things about Daylight Saving Time!

DST first used in Germany

US inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin first proposed the concept of DST in 1784, but modern Daylight Saving Time first saw the light of day, in 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift. However, Germany was the first country to implement DST on April 30, 1916 when the clocks were set forward at 11 pm.

Though often referred to as daylight savings time (the plural form of “saving”), the correct name is daylight saving time.

Hawaii and Arizona (except for the state’s Navajo Nation) do not observe daylight saving time.

The U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands remain on standard time year-round.

“Since 1915, the principal supporter of daylight saving in the United States has been the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of small business and retailers…The Chamber understood that if you give workers more sunlight at the end of the day they’ll stop and shop on their way home.”

In 2007, Daylight Saving got a few weeks longer, running from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

And for those that need a little motivation, Krispy Kreme plans to continue its tradition of handing out a free glazed donut to everybody that visits their stores on Sunday!

Preparing for a Headshot

Proudly active Protege in Peter Hurley's HeadShot Crew

Are you thinking of getting headshots? We certainly hope so! Here is some useful information to make sure you’re ready for your time in the spotlight!:) Headshots are your own personal branding, they will represent you at your best- the you that you want agents & your next employer to see! Headshots are all about your face! Your eyes are the first thing you want an agent and/ or casting director to notice, then your smile & other features. Thus, during your headshot session the focus is all on your face, our goal will be to depict you in various “characters” depending upon what role or roles you will be auditioning. 

CLOTHING 

Your attire needs to be clean & wrinkle free! Bring them on hangers to avoid wrinkles (yes t-shirts on hangers too:) We recommend you bring at least 3-4 solid colored tops with various necklines & tops of various styles for the session & place them on hangers to avoid wrinkles. Your color choices should complement your skintone and eye color. If you have a specific color that your friends & family say look great on you, by all means bring that color, along with some other colors. Interesting textures are acceptable, but no busy patterns, stripes or lines please! Layers are a great choice also, especially for business professional headshots!


HAIR

 Please be sure your hair, whether straight or curly, is how you would wear if for auditions or submissions to agents. Although you can put styling products in your hair, it still needs to look natural. Do your best to make sure you do not have “fly aways” as these add more time to the editing process, cannot be guaranteed to be “fixed” and may cause an additional editing fee. Be sure to bring a brush/ comb, hairspray, hairpins (if needed), and any other styling products for your specific needs. Do not get a new haircut or color your hair within a week of your photoshoot!

 For lots more useful information please follow our blog! :) 

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

 Katherine Hepburn

GREAT WEEKEND WORKING WITH AMAZING LOCAL TALENT!

It's a great Monday following a busy and productive weekend! We are looking forward to sharing the final product on two concept videos we filmed.

 The bonus to being a photographer & videographer is working with such exceptional talent! Capturing the essence of the dancers is easy when they work as hard as everyone did!  Each concept video was unique in it's own way, which makes for a full day of collaborations, ideas, angles & thinking outside the box.  Each director/artists has a vision they need brought to life.  Notice I didn't say "want brought to life".  I say need, because if you're an artist in any sense, you completely understand that what's in your head "needs" to come to fruition or it's highly frustrating!

Working together we found transitions that worked, movements that come to life on film & angles to capture what the director had in mind.  Again, it was a weekend of productivity and greatness for all involved.  Kudos to everyone who helped give these videos life!

I'd also like to give a special thanks to my son, Luke Palmieri, for his assistance with the filming and post editing process! 

Link to: Day Days Video

Maleficent

What better way to celebrate the opening of Disney's "Maleficent" than post a photo from the talented model Rosalind Friday  today!   We had a Fairy Tale shoot about 4 years ago and she was outstanding!!!

Model: Rosalind Friday