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Mide School Wrestling Pics - C&C PLease
So here is a little of the back story...
The guy responsible for making the yearbook at our school site feels that the gym, which is about 100 yards away from his classroom, is too far to walk to be troubled to show up and take pictures of our sporting events (got to love tenure). So with the wrestling season nearly over and with no more home games, our wrestling team has no photos of anything that they accomplished this year apart from some that I have been taking on the side. This year was a tough time for them as they lost most of their varsity team to low grades, and what was left of the team was very inexperienced. So, the wrestling coach asked me if I would take some photos of the individual wrestlers so he could have something to give them at the season ending banquet dinner. I told him sure, I'd be happy to. The only problem was that there was about 15-20 minutes to photograph 25 wrestlers, so as you might imagine it was more of an assembly line than art studio. Anyway, I attempted to give the wrestlers a bit of a tougher look since they lost most of their matches this season and I thought it might cheer em up.
So the question I have for you all is - does it work? or is it just too silly? :dunno
Let me know what you think if you would be so kind.
The guy responsible for making the yearbook at our school site feels that the gym, which is about 100 yards away from his classroom, is too far to walk to be troubled to show up and take pictures of our sporting events (got to love tenure). So with the wrestling season nearly over and with no more home games, our wrestling team has no photos of anything that they accomplished this year apart from some that I have been taking on the side. This year was a tough time for them as they lost most of their varsity team to low grades, and what was left of the team was very inexperienced. So, the wrestling coach asked me if I would take some photos of the individual wrestlers so he could have something to give them at the season ending banquet dinner. I told him sure, I'd be happy to. The only problem was that there was about 15-20 minutes to photograph 25 wrestlers, so as you might imagine it was more of an assembly line than art studio. Anyway, I attempted to give the wrestlers a bit of a tougher look since they lost most of their matches this season and I thought it might cheer em up.
So the question I have for you all is - does it work? or is it just too silly? :dunno
Let me know what you think if you would be so kind.
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Hadn't thought about that....Ill give it a try. Thanks.
Man! Thats Slick! And yes, remove the front of the ring, so the viewer is in the ring...and in trouble!
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I just got asked to shoot the wrestling team at our school.
The ring is a white ring from one of the team's practice mats in the gym which is where the shots were taken. I set it on fire by adding several layer effects and then pulling in some shots of open flames. Same idea with the cracked ground.
The fire tutorial is found here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vux1Oe8oWo and although it is a CS5 tutorial, I had no problem following it with CS4.
The tutorial deals with setting text on fire, but it seems to work with most things if you play with it a bit.
Here is the original photo before I started messing around with it.
and here is another incarnation of the shot. I moved on to the fire ring idea after my wife said that this one had a bit too much of a WWF feel to it.
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I don't know the whole situation, but as a photography/yearbook teacher I get asked to shoot EVERYTHING at the school. It's actually not part of my job. I do not get paid any extra to do it. I try to get as much as possible for the yearbook, but sometimes I am just absolutely too busy, especially for the editing work. Or even just archiving the files! I spend at least as many hours each week outside the classroom just prepping lessons/equipment and uploading as I do actually teaching. And then there are the non-school related shoots on evenings and weekends. It's possible that your guy may be a slacker, but you also may not realize everything he's doing behind the scenes. Even with me at almost all events, and student photographers, we still have to ask parents to send in pics to finish off the yearbook.
You might want to check focus...it looks like your camera focused on his outfit instead of his face...look at the QV and then at his eyes....
At least that's the way it appears to me.
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Don't take my initial comments to be an indictment of yearbook teachers in general. I'm sure that most do their job admirably, however, I've spent time in and around this individuals classroom and your label of "slacker" only gets you about 1/4 of the way to where this guy is. To make it worse he gets paid a stipend of $6000/year to do the yearbook. So anyway, enough said about that. I'm just glad I was able to get some pictures of the boys. As it turns out the parents seemed to love the pictures so I printed them at 8x10 and put them in some inexpensive frames and made them available to the parents who scooped them all up. So I was happy.
Your right, the eyes are a bit soft on this one. But given the time constraints, I didn't take much time to check the images as I was taking them. Next time I'm going to use the eye-fi / iPad combo so as to get a bigger picture to check as I go and hopefully get better results.
I haven't done any posters yet, but basketball season in our middle school league starts at the end of the month with a pre-season tournament, so I'm going to give it a crack and see what happens. My only reservation is with choosing the right size. I imagine 20x30. I guess that is a normal "poster size".