I printed and shipped a big order today. This was for a series of pictures I shot for Emerald Ballet Theatre as part of their 2007 Nutcracker rehearsals and performances.

Emerald Ballet Theatre Galleries

There are some wonderful images in these galleries and I'm glad to see parents/grandparents taking advantage of this opportunity to have high-quality archival fine art prints of their young dancers in an important performance.

Moving along, I found a great resource (linked from the excellent The Online Photographer blog) that links to a sizeable gallery of free tutorials for various Adobe products. I'm glad to see we are finally putting these together in a single place and with a comprehensible browser to find what you are looking for.

Adobe's Design Center Tutorials

Here is an photo I took last night at EBT friday night...

The new Canon 24-70 L 2.8 lens I purchased is actually working out quite well. Its sharp and although not quite wide enough (argh, 1.6 crop factor!) its pretty nice. I'm afraid I'll have to go to primes for the same IQ as my Leica glass (if even then) but its more than acceptable. I should really look into putting Leica R glass on this camera, but I hear things about flakey adapters (and I loose AF). Primes? No AF? Sounds like my M8...

Tags:Emerald Ballet Theatre, Training, Canon