CLICK ON THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER IMAGES.Latin and Standard heats from the 2010 Manhattan Amateur Classic. 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: Edward Golbert and Ilana Keselman, Pavel Balykin and Irina Shergina, Jason Dai and Patrycja Golak, Tal Livshits and Vlada Semenova, Tomaz Ster and Betty Attia, Nikita Malakhov and Sarah Gleyzer, Sergey Onik and Melissa Blanco, Steve Yi and Lisa Falcone, Peter Gelzhinsky and Mila Burdan, Kyrylo Dovgalin and Anastasiya Danilova, Filipp Akopyan and Alena Birukova, Alexandre Tchernossitov and Regina Maziarz, Davis Yang and Ivana Dragasevic, Nadir Bayramov and Oksana Petukhova, Thomas Gaffney and Yevgeniya Kononenko, Aleksandr Lushnov and Maria Bavykov, Ted Volynets and Elizabeth Satarov, Artur Shvetsov and Evgenia Shatilova, Felipe Gonzalez and Alina Yaroshenko.


AMATEUR ADULT PRE-CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN: Steven Penny and Tammy Mitryakova.


YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD: Austin Joson and Gabrielle Sabler.


YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN: David Kalenjian and Yuliya Kiperberg, Cole Mills and Alisa Rybkin, Joseph Odikadze and Sandy Rabinovich, Alan Rudman and Michelle Tuzman, Nicholas Kharlamov and Rochelle Kharlamov, Jason Dai and Patrycja Golak, Ron Garber and Ashley Goldman, Igor Gluskin and Bella Ratner.


YOUTH PRE-CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN: Danny Catacora and Kennedy Taylor.


ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD: Tal Livshits and Vlada Semenova, Alex Spencer and Katarzyna Herink, Alexandre Tchernossitov and Regina Maziarz, John Mason and Anna Nyzio.


Equipment used: Canon EOS20D digital camera in RAW mode using a Canon EF 70-200mm F4.0L USM. Flash photographs use a Canon Speedlite 580EX2, 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, and correction of lens distortion and lateral chromatic aberration through DxO Optics Pro 6.1; noise reduction through Noise Ninja 2.2, adjustments to color, tone, and sharpness through Adobe Photoshop CS3. I use a 16-bit digital workflow modelled after that of Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller.