CLICK ON THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER IMAGES.Amateur Latin, Professional Show Dance, Rhythm, Standard, and Latin, and (at the end of the gallery) several Pro-Am heats from the Philadelphia Festival Dancesport Champtionship held 4/18/09 in Philadelphia, PA. 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:

SHOWDANCE: Jameson Kilburne and Aubree Marchione, Lucas Jaime and Yanna Samkova, Julio Stefani-Guzman and Denise Cerrachio.
AMATEUR LATIN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: Stan Faynerman and Irina Shergina, Igor Popov and Nicole Volynets, Sasha Tchernossitov and Regina Maziarz, Anton Shklyaver and Genevieve, Ted Volynets and Jolene Gurevich, Tal Livshitz and Vlada Semenova, Sergey Onik and Melissa Blanco, Kiki Nyemchek and Magda Fialek.
PROFESSIONAL RHYTHM CHAMPIONSHIP: Don Beedie and Tess Minnick, Dimitrios Damalas and Maria Damalas, Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine and Liana, Matt Hauer and Karen Hauer, Edgar Osorio and Mirela Pohaska, Blake Kleppe and Beth Canuel.
PROFESSIONAL STANDARD CHAMPIONSHIP: Sergey Bolotnikov and Lia Wong, Maxim Brazhko and Julia Sorokina, Igor Litvinov and Yulia Ivleva, Donatas Nacajus and Tatyana Bylich, Samuel pacchini and Tone Jacobsin, Thomas Papkala and Fransiska Yordanova, Paolo Di Lorenzo and Liene Darbiniece.
PROFESSIONAL LATIN CHAMPIONSHIP: Lyubomir Asenov and Loreta Kriksciukaityte, Johnathan Bowers and Ivanna Matsuka, Nikolai Pilipenchuk and Natalia Skorikova, Andrei Sviryydzenka and Yuliya Zubava
Tomas Vasicek and Gabriela Coufalova, Marius Germanavicius and Vanda Polakova, Georgi Kanev and Adriana Bezmenova.
PRO-AM HEATS: Nikolai Pilipenchuk with Sue Gershowitz, Marianna Halari, and Becky Carpenter; Rebecca Margovsky and Evgeny Dyachenko.


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.