What's been keepin' me busy

Ann McRae

As the end of the soccer season approaches, it becomes team photo time. I've been wroking on 4 sets of team/individual and collages. Here are a few that I've made so far:
Each player on my daughters team got to pick their favorite action shot from the season, and I did this for them


I made this collage for a boys team - each player got the same copy:


And this one for one of the players for a birthday present from his mom:


They have recieved great response!

ann

Michiel de Brieder

that's our girl!!!!! Excellent job Ann! You're really starting to have a way with composites!
Congrats on the results!

wxwax

Cool! You know what, at first I didn't like the middle one. But when you explain what's going on, and I realize that every kid and parent is only looking for the shot of their child and maybe his pals, it makes sense to have all of those images. Neat.

Steve Cavigliano

All Reet Ann ^5
I agree with Michiel and Sid. Not only is your work looking very good You are proving that we were right about you being able to handle this type of shooting/stress

Your work has helped stir my creative juices :-) I think I'm going to try to do a poster size collage for my son's coach. The only thing I've ever done in PS is photo editing, so this could wind up being a really tough job :uhoh

Anyhow, Good for you Ann You give us hope....lol

Steve

Michiel de Brieder

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

I think I'm going to try to do a poster size collage for my son's coach. The only thing I've ever done in PS is photo editing, so this could wind up being a really tough job

Steve,

layers are your friend! remember that Make sure all the objects you insert over your background are separate layers with masks so you can take away all you want! (and put it back when you have made 'yet another mistake' :lol making a collage can be tiring work).
I hope you have a sturdy processor in your computer along with a fast HD and a nice bunch of RAM, because layering 20 pics on 50cm x 70cm format is quite demanding on one's computer (just something I do after each holiday)
Like this one: Edinburgh 2004
Good luck Steve!

ian408

Ann, these are great composites of the season and I'm sure the
families will love them!

Ian

Ann McRae

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

that's our girl!!!!! Excellent job Ann! You're really starting to have a way with composites!
Congrats on the results!

Thanks, Michiel. I am slowly figuring out the most time efficient way to do them! I love the ones I made for the girls ( too many compression artifacts here, but they printed beautifully), and so do the girls.

ann

Ann McRae

wxwax wrote:

Cool! You know what, at first I didn't like the middle one. But when you explain what's going on, and I realize that every kid and parent is only looking for the shot of their child and maybe his pals, it makes sense to have all of those images. Neat.

Hi Sid
I agree it is crowded! All of those shots were taken during 1 (1hour) game. Mucho challenging to get a good usable shot for each kid. I am thinking about using a 'frame' around each player if I ever do one of these again.

Thanks
ann

Ann McRae

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

Steve,

layers are your friend! remember that Make sure all the objects you insert over your background are separate layers with masks so you can take away all you want! (and put it back when you have made 'yet another mistake' :lol making a collage can be tiring work).
I hope you have a sturdy processor in your computer along with a fast HD and a nice bunch of RAM, because layering 20 pics on 50cm x 70cm format is quite demanding on one's computer (just something I do after each holiday)
Like this one: Edinburgh 2004
Good luck Steve!

Yep, what Michiel said - do not save as anything but .psd (well, its .psp in PSP 9, I think its .psd in photoshop), that way you can redo or rearrange afterwords.

ann

Ann McRae

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

I agree with Michiel and Sid. Not only is your work looking very good You are proving that we were right about you being able to handle this type of shooting/stress

Your work has helped stir my creative juices :-) I think I'm going to try to do a poster size collage for my son's coach. The only thing I've ever done in PS is photo editing, so this could wind up being a really tough job :uhoh

Anyhow, Good for you Ann You give us hope....lol

Steve

Well, thanks very much, Steve! I'm sure you can manage the poster - and they are a lot of fun to do. My problem is I always like the last one I made more than the others - it is hard to resist the temptation to go back and redo....
:
ann

Ann McRae

ian408 wrote:

Ann, these are great composites of the season and I'm sure the
families will love them!

Ian

Thanks, Ian. They have been very well recieved so far - to the point parents are talking to me about them in the grocery store!:D
ann

ginger_55

Those are fantastic, Ann. I am terribly impressed.

You are talented with that!

ginger

Shakey

Nice work Ann. Last year I photographed almost every game and ever girl on my kids baseball team .I then burned 20 cds and we gave then to Coaches and Parents at the closing party.
I hope to photo more baseball this year.

Tim