To download a full resolution image, with entire camera detail, suitable for rendering as a high quality photograph:
Once you have downloaded this raw camera image you can make a high quality print. Before doing so, consider enhancing the image with color correction, contrast enhancement, or cropping it to suit your own need.
In general, and for a variety of reasons, the lighting at this event was not ideal for photography. For many of the thumbnails and intermediate images, especially when an entire batch needed the same lighting enhancement, I developed a quick adjustment (using the Adobe Photoshop "curves" technique) which I applied to all the thumbnail and the intermediate images in that folder. However, I specifically avoided changing the master original version. This is because I have not had time to fully refine the color adjustment — for example within the same room the lighting changes dramatically from place to place depending on whether the subject is more strongly lighted with a window, a florescent light, or one of the colored hue lights.
In most cases, the original images from this event are somewhat underexposed since no flash was used. However this can generally be corrected using the proper image processing (with Adobe or similar program), and made very nice.
So for those who wish to download the full resolution image and make the best possible print, I leave it to you to develop the ideal color correction. As a guide and starting point, I include the Adobe Photoshop color correction "curve" (".acv" file), if any, which I constructed to enhance the thumbnails. If I created one for the files in this folder you can get it by clicking here. In some cases, when the lighting had substantial variance, I created an alternate color adjustment, which is here, if it exists.
If neither of these links do anything, then I haven't provided a color correction. Perhaps this is because the images in this folder may not be of highest interest, or because the images are so varied. In either case you are on your own. Also, if you are not familiar with Adobe Photoshop or similar software, and I recognize most people are not, I recommend you locate someone to help you who is. If you're a parent, check with your son or daughter — if they aren't knowledgable in this, I expect they know someone who is. In any case, please do not contact the photographer (me), since, alas, I do not have the resources to help everyone with the subtleties of image processing.