Proofs Collection - Photos by Mike Strong
(Compilation # 3 - compiled 1 July 2007)
UMKC Dance Photographs

2002 through 2007


From "Miles Walked" - UMKC 2007 Senior Recital #3 - 11 March 2007
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Hints (and caveats) about online ordering: see note below

While almost all are UMKC dance department (see flags),
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Some may be UMKC in general and about or including dance and
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Others may be performances elsewhere with UMKC dance units or students/personnel

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Year Mo Dy Flag Description - sometimes with web (www) link and a local (offline) copy of that page
     
2002
     
2002 09 7 *** Dance In The Park - DeeAnna and Winston - "Letting Go" (Wylliams/Henry) (www, copy) (no PayPal links)
     
Proofs from here down have PayPal purchase links for each item.
 
2003
     
2003 09 5,6 *** Dance In The Park 2003- "Rippling Souls" (Wylliams/Henry)
2003 10 * UMKC International Night - in the U-Center
2003 03   Choreofest November 2003
     
2004
     
2004 01   Special Concert for the Hard of Hearing Jan 14th
2004 02 20 * Gamelan - 20 Februray 2004, University Center, UMKC
2004 02   20-28 February 2004 - Senior Dance Recitals (all three)
2004 04   16, 17 April 2004 - Spring Extravaganza
2004 05 * Gamelan - 16 May 2004 in White Recital Hall
2004 12   Selections for 100-Yr book (from fall 2003 and spring 2004) Selections compiled 15 Dec 2004
     
2005
     
2005 01 21 *** Modern Night at the Folly (www, copy)
"Dear Friend" w / Katie Jenkins, Choreo: Sabrina Madison-Cannon
2005 01 26   Karen Brown, Balanchine representative, 26 Jan, working with UMKC for "Serenade" in April's 100-Yr Concert
2005 02   February 2005 - Senior Recitals (www, copy)
2005 04   Aureole (23 March)
Spring 2005 Concert (7, 8, 9 April)
2005 05 27   Shots from a non-majors class with Lindsey Rosenmann
2005 11   4, 5 November 2005 - Choreofest 2005 (www, copy)
     
2006
     
2006 01 14 *** Modern Night at the Folly (www, copy)
Jennifer Medina in "Facades of an Indeterminate Nature"
Sabrina Madison-Cannon - "Come Together" - Madison-Cannon Project
2006 02 24   Promo photos with Mary Marshall for 100-Yr Concert
2006 04 06   Conservatory 100-Yr Concert (www, copy)
2006 08 26   Donald McKayle Master Class (www, copy)
2006 09 8,9 *** Dance in the Park (www, copy)
Wylliams/Henry: "Rippling Souls" (excerpt)
Sabrina "Come Together" - Madison-Cannon Project
2006 11   Choreofest: 3, 4 November 2006 (www, copy)
     
2007
     
2007 01 18   Class with Mino Nicolas - UMKC - 18 Jan 2007
2007 01 20   "Lament" work recital - 20 January 2007
2007 01 27 *** Modern Night at the Folly (www, copy)
Sabrina Madison-Cannon - "Infinite Pulse" - UMKC dance students - Ben, Leila, Matt
2007 03   Senior Recital No's One & Three : 2 and 11 March 2007 (www, copy)
2007 04   Spring 2007 Concert (13, 14 April) (www, copy)
     
     

 

Caveat Notes

Please note that this is a collection of proofs from a period of years in which the proofing
methods changed as did the PayPal methods. Most have now been standardized
and repaired for this compilation. Changes have not been made to the sources.

If you would prefere to not use PayPal to make purchases you can just
copy the file names and paste them into an email to me with the desired size(s),
names, image sizes and quantities to dancer@kcdance.com)
(Note, this goes through SpamArrest and requires a response.)

Such As Something Like This:

Quantity Image Name paper size Image size Price Listed
24 MNF07_IP_0959a.jpg notecard   24.00
1 MNF07_IP_0959a.jpg 8.5 x 11 6 x 9 18.00

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Notecard info here - Notecards are 4.25 x 5.5 inches, Greeting cards are 5.5 x 8 inches (both on matte paper).

NOTE: (29 June 2007) The faulty code should now be corrected in all 15,000-some files. Previously it:
might add full-package postage for each item rather than once for entire invoice (I changed per-item postage to 5-cents,
or the code might send you nowhere rather than to PayPal (produced a "can't load page" error) - all now have the URL.

More Notes

My prints (art prints) are made on archival paper with archival inks. That means the inks are colored
with pigment (ground rock, basically, rather than dyes) and are rated by the Wilhem Institute
to last from 100-200 years before "noticeable fading" occurs (Epson paper/ink).
Note cards and greeting cards are also printed on archival matte paper with the same ink.

The proof and thumbnail sizes and their image quality varies across the collection.
If an image looks doubtful technically, feel free to check with me before asking for a larger version.
It might look yucky and be yucky or it might just be the proof-version image and JPEG artifacts.

It might also look a little better in some cases or just more visible than the original,
especially when it might show a lighter proof when the original high-res is darker.
That is an artifact of the way the proof-making program makes its images.

The same thing goes for the photographs. Many of the earlier ones I would just as soon dis-own.
My later ones are better all around in terms of technology, subject knowledge and technique.

But even with better shots I still leave in far more than I would pick for showing or printing.
They contain information for the dancers about what they are doing and/or they are pictures of friends.
So, you will have to do your own sorting through.

Prints made from proof pictures will not look good unless they are very small. There is not enough resolution in these files for prints or publicity use. The largest are about 600 pixels in the max direction. At 300 dpi that is 2-inches on paper, or one inch if 600 dpi. To look good on paper you need enough pixels available that you can print 300 or more pixels per inch.

But these low-resolution photo files are a good size for use on websites as-is, though I personally still like to tweak them at their display size. I usually reduce the size a little for a better D-Max and then tweak the levels and/or the brightness/contrast. Just a touch - to kick them for display. You will see two sizes readily, the thumbnails and the proofs. I also include an in-between size I call a web size.

All the proof/web/thumb versions are generated by a program I originally wrote in 1999 when digital pictures threatened to overwhelm me with too many photos to easily select from when choosing which pictures to print large. At that time the Windows Viewer didn't exist. Later, with XP, the viewer made selections easier but dancers asked for a way to see the pictures and to buy pictures. So I extended the program to generate pages with links to PayPal. The links haven't always been working. I believe I've fixed them with this compilation.

If you find pictures of yourself and your friends you would like to use on your own website please do so. I would appreciate the photo credit (Photo by Mike Strong, kcdance.com) and I would especially appreciate a link back to the site - http://www.kcdance.com. Thank You.

 

Note of thanks: This disk is in response to Jennifer Bartholow who kept asking for photos. I had the pictures scattered and it took quite awhile before I could locate them (even though I have been working on a cataloging system for a year). Pulling them together as a collection required more weeks. I should probably have been making such a UMKC collection all along but finally here it is. I even managed to correct earlier file errors on old PayPal links. So (I am hoping) it should all work online for your print purchases. Future photographs will be added to this collection and a new disk will be available.

Mike Strong
5921 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
816.444.4459 land
816.674.1133 cell
dancer@kcdance.com
strongm@umkc.edu
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