T.C.'s tango photos, videos and related things

(This page is being reworked/ simplified, this is why some contents may appear multiple times and layout may be uneven.)

Welcome. One of my hobbies is photography/videography. I started photography in tango events and so far they remain my main subject. The point of it is both some kind of creation or extension of creation, and sharing memories with those who like it, sometimes one more than the other depending on context.

(End of 2025/start of 2026, I decided to simplify this website's stripping them down from any kind of any styled layout elements and technical dependencies that got old over years, required maintenance and could satisfy desktop or mobile users but less likely both, hence the very linear nearlyu presentation.)

Tango photography

Where to find them

The present

This site's tango photography page presents a list of most of my tango photography albums and links to access them.

The past

Until September 2022, most of my my Tango photographs were published on "TC Tango Photos etc." Facebook page / Photo albums .

Some photographs were published on Flicker as well: Flickr photostream , often in order to contribute to photograph selections for milgonga.be .

Elements of history

I started photography in tango end of 2013. When I say that I started photography in tango, I mean that before I was in tango, I was able to shoot photographs in fully automated mode, but it was in tango that I learned more skill to master more steps from the taking of the picture to the editing and the publishing.

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Tango videos

Where to watch them

The present

The most comprehensive location to see my tango videos is "TC Tango" YouTube channe .

They can also be watched on this site's "Tango" section video page.

The past

Up to 2016, in addition to YouTube, my videos were also published on "TC Tango Photos etc." Facebook page (currently, I cannot find a direct link to the "Video" tab of the Facebook Page anymore).

Elements of history

I started tango video shortly after photography. I had done video editing prior to it, before YouTube even existed, but until then I had always used images from existing digital sources, not images from my own cameras.

In 2016, I started filming with multiple cameras and aim to upgrade my video gear. Back then this wasn't common at all in tango as, for a long time, it was rather accepted that tango videos were made in a very improvised manner and with very approximative quality expectations. (Or maybe it was the Internet in general; the consensus was that it wasn’t a place to aim for quality. Maybe it was both; my memories about this are hazy.) This could be seen as some innovation, aiming to improve tracking, detail level and overall quality. I know that some people were not super fans of camera changes, but the goal is to use the best angles even when the dancers move to remote parts dance floor that are difficult to reach with a unique camera. But filming live shows remains a widely improvised task in which cameras have to find places in the crowd, stability and the right settings in a matter of minutes while the crowd is also rushing to take its places to watch the show (and some people may become aggressive at that moment, a bit like drivers in a traffic jam). Hence there is still no guarantee for perfection. I think that, over the years, I have learned to use camera changes in my editing more sparingly than in the beginning. A side effect that some may like or not is that camera changes can add some dynamics to the performance, while I find that single camera videos often tend to remove dynamics and flatten the overall experience. A matter of nuances where perfection can’t always be reached.

In 2018, most watched YouTube tango channel was "030 Tango" by Jonas from Berlin. As it was stroked down and closed by some tango show whose music was used in some of his videos (we do not choose the music, the performers chose the music), "TC Tango" saw a boost in YouTube views and became the most watch Tango channel in the world at that time. By now "030 Tango" has reopened, there are many more tango channels/videos and I am much less active, so it is not the case anymore.

Miscellaneous / Information

TC tango pictures grid, 2019

Elements from the old layout. Under works

Networks

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