CLICK ON THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER IMAGES. Latin and Standard heats from the 2008 Manhattan Amateur Classic dancesport competition. 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.

Dancers pictured include:
ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN: Okeksandr Altukhov and Oksana Dmytrenko, Tal Livshits and Kate Kapshandy, Stanislav Savich and Elijah Piker, Alex Zaika and Sharen Pyatetskya, Max Belozerov and Kristine Avsjukevich, Sergey Onik and Nicole Volynets, Bernie Goldenberg and Olga Lipets, Maksim Kapitannikov and Gosia Kurczeraw. YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN:Armen Petrosyan and Nicole Pyatetskya, Allen Rudman and Michelle Tuzman, Leonid Juashkovsky and Danielle Karagach, Max Belozerov and Kristine Avsjukevich, Jason Chao Dai and Patrycja Golak, Steve Bleynis and Elizabeth Satarov, Dmitry Ivashchenko and Gabriella Sabler, Ron Garber and Sofia Zaytseva, Keith Batey and Samantha Safir, Daniel Gonzalez and Nataly Ramirez. ADULT NOVICE STANDARD: Charles Ferzli and Miriam Ferzli, Michael Buragas and Amelia Buragas, Hong-Kim Vu and Katie Biszko. ADULT PRE-CHAMP STANDARD: Miguel Valle and Alina Entin, Michael Buragas and Amelia Buragas. ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD: Miguel Valle and Alina Entin, Tal Livshits and Kate Kapshandy, Kani Liao and Anna Chaldysheva, Ira Pollock and Abby Pollock, Paul Jurczyk and Milena Jasionek, Joseph Huesmann and Stacey Friedman.


Equipment used: Canon EOS20D digital camera in RAW mode using a Canon EF 70-200mm F4.0L USM lens, a Canon Speedlite 580EX, Really Right Stuff B870B Flash Bracket, and Canon Compact Battery Pack CP-E3. 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 5.0; adjustments to color, tone, and sharpness through Adobe Photoshop CS2. I use a 16-bit digital workflow modeled after that of Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller.