CLICK ON THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER IMAGES.Latin and Standard, heats from the USA Dance National Dancesport Championships held 4/3/09 in Baltimore, MD. 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: Pavel Balykin and Natalia Barantseva, Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Drian Chesnokova, Alexandre Tchernossitov and Regina Maziarz, Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina, Carlos Lopez and Genevieve Cuevas, Sergey Onik and Melissa Blanco, Alexey Karaulov and Sasha Nissengolts, Pasha Stepanchuk and Nadezda Vlasova, Marlon Enriquez and Megan Mendoza, Pasha Pashkov and Daniella Karagach, Andrei Kazlouski and Kate Kapshandy, Boris Rudenko and Ekaterina Fedosova, Igor Zabrodin and Nina Estrina, Tal Livshits and Vlada Semenova, Vladislav Shahov and Milena Jasionek, Max Berlyzant and Rachel Makow, Igor Popov and Nicole Volynets, Simeon Stoynov and Kora Stoynova, Ted Volynets and Jolene Gurevich, Nikita Malakhov and Sarah Gleyzer, Peter Gelzhinsky and Mila Burdan, Oleksandra Altukhov and Oksana Dmytrenko, Kiki Nyemchek and Magda Fialek.
YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP 10 DANCE: Sergey Golubtson and Alina Iougai, Austin Joson and Gabriella Sabler, Aiden Mamedov and Melani Bersten, Edward Golbert and Olivia Wesolowski, Mircea Cernev and Jennifer Fales, Daniel Shapiro and Catherine Kovalyova.
JUNIOR II CHAMPIONSHIP 10 DANCE: Austin Joson and Gabriella Sabler, Piotr Ploszaj and Sylwia Jemielity, William Stansbury and Jenny Sokolsky, Ilusha Gutnik and Karina Yushchenko, Vlad Shknevsky and Nicole Agaronnik, Nikita Babenko and Anna Derevyanchenko, Misha Vorobiev and Sonya Tsekanovsky, Daniel Shapiro and Catherine Kovalyova, Beatrice Polyakova.
ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP SMOOTH: Ryan Kenner and Amanda Pytlik.


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 5.3; 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.