Last month I had the opportunity to do the portraits at our church’s annual daddy daughter dance. Event photography is not something I’ve done before or want to specialize in but it was a neat challenge for a good cause. It was a great kick in the pants to focus me and force me to figure out how to light a very narrow space with enough versatility to accommodate pairs as well as larger groups. After the portraits were done, they asked me to stick around and get some candid shots. I wasn’t well prepared for that so it was just a bounced gelled flash.
I wasn’t looking forward to it when I was first asked but, by the end of the shoot, I realized that it had been a lot of fun. It is said that if a creative project doesn’t scare you, then you will almost certainly not grow from it. I believe that is true and applies in this case.
Jason Patz 
Wow! The ones of the daughters with dads dancing are amazing! I never knew you could pull color in the foreground and have b/w in the background! Very neat. Maybe you could do wedding photography?
Cool pics! I noticed that the feet between the daddy and daughter were in color too – so do you lasso an area and make it B&W or what? I’d say the pics turned out great if the majority look like those! -b
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I wanted the carpet to be in color and fade to B&W. I tried having the dad and the daughter be the only things in color and having the carpet fade out seems to help pull your eye into the picture.