Post by OrcaBob on Sept 10, 2009 13:21:18 GMT -5
Some of us have discussed this poster on the old board, but I figured to kick things off in the Sports section with it.
Three years ago, I started photographing one particular soccer team in my area. It started as a favor to one soccer-mom coworker and ended with my being the team's official photographer. The first year I was practically giving my work away. I was using Photoshop Elements (terrible for the kind of workload sports required) and my photoprocessing was minimal.
The second year, I had Photoshop CS3 and was more interested in making money. As an attention-getter I sold 12"x18" prints of the single best shot of each girl on JV and varsity. At the time I was toying with Photoshop and came up with the design below. The centerpiece image is usually a posed shot, but the example below used a game shot. The rest of the montage used images taken throughout the season... some of the components I'd never be able to sell on their own. (Maybe I should call it The Hot Dog Poster?)
It was popular and the school ordered one done for each departing senior as part of a gift photo package.
The only time-consuming part is cutting the athlete out from the background. That task would be easier if I had chromakey software.
Please note: All the names have been changed. And this is a seriously reduced resolution copy. The real thing will enlarge cleanly to 20"x30".
Three years ago, I started photographing one particular soccer team in my area. It started as a favor to one soccer-mom coworker and ended with my being the team's official photographer. The first year I was practically giving my work away. I was using Photoshop Elements (terrible for the kind of workload sports required) and my photoprocessing was minimal.
The second year, I had Photoshop CS3 and was more interested in making money. As an attention-getter I sold 12"x18" prints of the single best shot of each girl on JV and varsity. At the time I was toying with Photoshop and came up with the design below. The centerpiece image is usually a posed shot, but the example below used a game shot. The rest of the montage used images taken throughout the season... some of the components I'd never be able to sell on their own. (Maybe I should call it The Hot Dog Poster?)
It was popular and the school ordered one done for each departing senior as part of a gift photo package.
The only time-consuming part is cutting the athlete out from the background. That task would be easier if I had chromakey software.
Please note: All the names have been changed. And this is a seriously reduced resolution copy. The real thing will enlarge cleanly to 20"x30".
