Blog #4

 I was inspired by another students midterm for my final project. My family has always been a huge supporter of high school football and this year I was volunteered to make the annual poster that is hung up around town. I've been trying to come up with ideas on where and when to take the photograph and was really struggling with ideas, that is until I saw this midterm and the idea came to me. I want to take that years theme or word that gives the team inspiration and put action shots along with the composites through out the letters. With my photography skills and the techniques I've learned in photoshop I think I will be able to make something unique and professional. 

Including inspirational and motivating photos:

I want the photos to be a compilation of success, teamwork, unity, and memories. My idea is with all these photos combined it will give of inspiration. 

I also wanted to use pictures from Camp Bobcat as the background since the seniors have attended the camp every summer for the past 4 years as a team. 

I wanted to make more than just a poster with a team photo, I wanted it to inspire and bring out the best in what football and being on a team, and really what our town is like. So I came across this website for Inspirational Quotes for athletes. 

I also wanted to make the players feel like they are being showcased in the best possible light, with close up pictures and actions shots, adding more than just the most talented kids sitting down in a group and smiling. 

I want the players to feel like they are on the cover of a magazine. Having the seniors and long time players be featured in larger photos. 

Overall the basic outline for my idea is as follows:

However saying words INSPIRE, GRANDVIEW, PRIDE, etc. Also there being more than one photo per letter, being able fit more in. 

I think the biggest challenge for this project will be to get all the photos to blend and to have ever member visible within the cut out words. So to make the blending as natural as possible I found a tutorial that helps blend landscapes together along with humans which I think is perfect since I will be blending players together as well as into the background. My biggest fear is being able to fit all the players in, so I found this tutorial that will allow me to replace faces of players with others incase they are not featured and there is someone shown at least twice. Finally, sports photography is no easy task and so I found this tutorial to give me tips on how to remove complex objects from the background, which is key in the middle of football action. 

My goal is to stay away from anything plan and cheesy such as these:

I would also like to honor the seniors with personal posters such as:

Which will entail new techniques for m including high contrast on the players then cut out and placed in a heavily edited background which will have almost a gothic look. I could even go about the background by playing with the landscape layers and filters. All three techniques will be new to me.