CLICK ON THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER IMAGES.Members of the Dancing Made Easy dance studio (Westminster, MD) competing in the 2006 Philly Festival. Comments are welcome. These images are the copyright property of the photographer and may not be copied or reproduced without permission. (The dancers pictured have my permission to use these images, which are of sufficient resolution for e-mailing or displaying on a monitor; to print photos, please click here to visit an online photo-processing site to which I have uploaded full-resolution images that can be printed up to 20x30 inches.)


Equipment used: Canon EOS20D digital camera in RAW mode using one of the following lenses: Canon 16-35mm f2.8L USM, Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM, Canon EF 70-200mm F4.0L USM, Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM. Flash photographs use a Canon Speedlite 580EX, Really Right Stuff B870B Flash Bracket, and Canon Compact Battery Pack CP-E3. Images not handheld are stabilized using either Bogen #3021 tripod legs, Acratech Ultimate Ballhead, and Canon TC-80N3 remote release or a Manfrotto #3245 monopod with #3232 head. I use Really Right Stuff QR clamps and plates and protect my lenses with B+W Multi-Resistant Coating UV filters.Software used: RAW image conversion, white balance correction, exposure correction, highlight recovery, noise removal, and correction of lens distortion and lateral chromatic aberration through DxO Optics Pro 3.55; adjustments to color, tone, and sharpness through Adobe Photoshop CS2. I use a 16-bit digital workflow modelled after that of Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller.


All photos are by Andy Carpenter, except for the photos of Andy & Becky dancing, which were taken by David Hansel. For videos of Andy & Becky dancing at this competition, click here.