Love, Laugh Learn

IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
edited March 6, 2011 in People
It's been several weeks since I posted anything. Been out playing in the snow and on the ice.

I was asked to do a project for a Washington, DC private school's fund raising auction. The motto of the three sixth-grade classes this year is "Love, Laugh, Learn." I did a set of the three words for each of the classes. Dodge-Chrome ( a highly regarded print shop in DC) is doing the printing and mounting pro-bono. The sets will be auctioned off at the annual affair, which usually turns into a bidding war between the highly competetive parents of the kids.

I spent some time way up in a cherry picker, and quite a few hours in LR and PS, but I'm happy with the results. Here are three of the nine images.
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My marketing materials will be prominently displayed at the auction. I'm hoping for some portrait work from it.
John :
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D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.

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  • zoomerzoomer Registered Users Posts: 3,688 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2011
    Very cool. Looks like the kids are having a blast.
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  • briandelionbriandelion Registered Users Posts: 512 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2011
    Great results. Was the body shape thing your idea? You must have had fun way up on that cherry picker. Hope it brings you some well deserved new clients
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    It is about how that thing looks photographed." Garry Winogrand

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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2011
    Would be great to see as a mural in a school hall/corridor!

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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2011
    I wish I could take credit for the shapes. No, a couple of the class moms had found some diagrams that they used. They planned very carefully so all the kids in each class were fairly represented. The moms and one teacher did all the "cat herding" to form the letters. I actually needed 30 individual good shots to get all the letters. Once I had the letters (on green chroma-key) I did the Photoshop editing, then merged them into the words for final use.

    The cherry picker didn't frighten me 'till I got down and read the safety placard that warned very sternly "Do not raise the platform unless all outriggers are fully deployed!" Crap!! What outriggers?!?!? eek7.gif
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2011
    zoomer wrote: »
    Very cool. Looks like the kids are having a blast.

    Oh yeah. That was perhaps the best part. Sixth graders are about the last year where they're mostly children. By next year, there'd be all this sexual tension stuff going on, and they'd be all self-conscious
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • reyvee61reyvee61 Registered Users Posts: 1,877 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2011
    Wow, what an ambitious project...
    Very cool and well done my friend.....
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  • cr8ingwavescr8ingwaves Registered Users Posts: 194 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2011
    this is totally awesome! Be sure to let us know how much the prints get auctioned off for. Hope lots of work comes your way from it.
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  • heatherfeatherheatherfeather Registered Users Posts: 2,738 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2011
    This is awesome! Love it! They do look like they are having a ton of fun!

    There are a couple of girls that have a bit of a green cast on their hair... I wonder if you might want to fix it before you go to print! (Especially "v") Should be an easy fix with the eyedropper + brush>color tool, especially at that distance.
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  • BritrockBritrock Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
    edited February 28, 2011
    Great images and love the way all shapes and sizes of children are represented.
  • TrigPhotographyTrigPhotography Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    That is way cool! What a great concept. Great image(s).
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  • lilmommalilmomma Registered Users Posts: 1,060 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    this is awesome!
  • Albert DicksonAlbert Dickson Registered Users Posts: 520 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    Looks like a hoot of a good time for all. Wonderful work!clap.gif
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    heatherfeather wrote: »
    This is awesome! Love it! They do look like they are having a ton of fun!

    There are a couple of girls that have a bit of a green cast on their hair... I wonder if you might want to fix it before you go to print! (Especially "v") Should be an easy fix with the eyedropper + brush>color tool, especially at that distance.

    This was my first use of a green chroma key background. Unfortunately, we had to use it on the floor and have the kids lying down on it. Yeah, there was a ridiculous amount of spill, and what you see is the results of hours of work in PS5. I just got tired.
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    Thank you again my friends!! It was really fun work. I think I already have a book jacket portrait project for an author whose child attends the school.
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2011
    Holy Cow!!
    One of the sixth grade teachers texted me from the auction dinner tonight and described what she referred to as a "feeding frenzy" surrounding the prints. Later she texted that the three individual sets had brought in a MINIMUM of $2250. Apparently, there's enough demand that they are going to allow multiple winners AT THE WINNING BID PRICE!! So, my stuff may have gone for as much as $4500.00. That is effing crazy folks. :crazy Just shows what a dangerous combination competitive personalities and free liquor can be.
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • briandelionbriandelion Registered Users Posts: 512 Major grins
    edited March 6, 2011
    Ha, Ha! You're the man!! wings.gifbarbclap.gif
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    It is about how that thing looks photographed." Garry Winogrand

    Avatar credit: photograph by Duane Michals- picture of me, 'Smash Palace' album
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