My Tennis Collage - "Dynamic forehand" - C and C welcomed.

I recently created this by a Customers request.

it turned out better than i thought.

I made it 27 wide by almost 7 inches tall.

The mother will print out at kinkos. The PSD turned out to be about 270 Megs. Jpeg is 30 megs.

what else would you have added?

I really like that poster. I wouldn't add a thing. The parents and the player are going to love this. Great job.

That's a wonderful poster! Great job. My only thought though, is that I can see the seam where you stitched on the left-most part of the image, between the image on the left and the next one. You can see it is not perfectly aligned, and when it is printed that large, it might be noticeable to your client. All the other seams going towards the right cannot be seen.

Pat

I would definitely do some work on the bleachers. As Pat noted, there's some misalignment that's pretty obvious.

(And I just may be too old, but I'd shoot it again and tell the kid to pull his freakin' pants up!)

prime80 wrote in post #5914617
I would definitely do some work on the bleachers. As Pat noted, there's some misalignment that's pretty obvious.

(And I just may be too old, but I'd shoot it again and tell the kid to pull his freakin' pants up!)

he he.. i would love to have the kid back and re dress him..

but this was shot during the tournament, actual match play, and it was probably his 3 match of the day. of 3 days straight.

i shot like 122 kids in that 3 days stretch and had 2K clicks on my shutter.

i was really lucky to have this sequence.. because i put up the photos and the parents who don't travel to the events, look at the web gallery. Mother had asked me to put something together..

so for me to have the data, it was great.. as for the pants.. lol.. that is how most of the kids roll. funny isn't it?

phamster

phamster wrote in post #5915938
he he.. i would love to have the kid back and re dress him..

.. as for the pants.. lol.. that is how most of the kids roll. funny isn't it?

phamster

I'm afraid I will NEVER understand the allure of having your underwear showing, but I guess I'm just a bit old fashioned. I feel really sorry for the first kid that comes to my house to pick up my daughter with his undies in view. He'll be leaving WITHOUT my daughter, and WITH an atomic wedgie.

Great shots, BTW. Forgot to mention that.

It's a shame you couldn't get a little faster shutter speed to better freeze at least his arm - if not his racquet - in some of the shots, but that's not the worst thing in the world. As for changes, I would maybe have used a different typeface for the wording. I find this one to be just a hint out of touch with the general feel I get from the rest of the collage.

folville wrote in post #5918265
It's a shame you couldn't get a little faster shutter speed to better freeze at least his arm - if not his racquet - in some of the shots, but that's not the worst thing in the world. As for changes, I would maybe have used a different typeface for the wording. I find this one to be just a hint out of touch with the general feel I get from the rest of the collage.

I agreed with the shutter speed thing, i wish i had bumped my ISO up to about 800 those were done at 400, and i did this shoot late in the evening like 8pm indiana time.

still learning as i am doing this..

infact i think it was the first day i had my 40D. graduated from the xti so it was super new that day.

things i would do different is:

>shoot wide open at 2.8f.
>shoot at shutter priortiy - set to 800 or 1000 at least.
>take time to bump ISO slowly after a couple of shots.

thanks for all the tips..

phamster

i think i know someone who is on that team,Brian Li, he was 5 when i first saw him paying in Sydney at my club and he was insane

folville wrote in post #5918265
It's a shame you couldn't get a little faster shutter speed to better freeze at least his arm - if not his racquet - in some of the shots, but that's not the worst thing in the world. As for changes, I would maybe have used a different typeface for the wording. I find this one to be just a hint out of touch with the general feel I get from the rest of the collage.

I don't. Frozen shots are a dime a dozen now. But the motion show intensity to me. I am actually trying to capture more elements of motion in my shots now. In the case of these shots, I think it does no harm because the main subject, the guys face, is captured perfectly.

Hey, you know this makes no sense at all... right? You can't lock down shutter speed and your f-stop unless your shooting manual. You give up control of the f-stop when you shoot shutter priority. Your last statement though it the golden one where you nail it. Find your exposure, move to manual, and then change ISO when you need to adjust exposure. Only a few cameras allow you to lock both shutter and aperature while having the camera adjust automatically ISO.

Croasdail wrote in post #5923115
Hey, you know this makes no sense at all... right? You can't lock down shutter speed and your f-stop unless your shooting manual. You give up control of the f-stop when you shoot shutter priority. Your last statement though it the golden one where you nail it. Find your exposure, move to manual, and then change ISO when you need to adjust exposure. Only a few cameras allow you to lock both shutter and aperature while having the camera adjust automatically ISO.

i think you got me wrong.. i was in AV mode and had it set to 4.0 or something like that.

so my first bullet was for the AV mode.. set it up to 2.8 to get a faster shutter speed.

and the second statement was for if i went into TV mode then set the shutter to at least 800 or 1000 of a second speed..

but thanks for your comments.. having full stoppage are dime a dozen photos.. so having slight blur shows motion..

thanks for looking !

phamster

Croasdail wrote in post #5923080
I don't. Frozen shots are a dime a dozen now. But the motion show intensity to me. I am actually trying to capture more elements of motion in my shots now. In the case of these shots, I think it does no harm because the main subject, the guys face, is captured perfectly.

I can see you point very strongly for the third shot in this series, but when it comes to captures like number one I would definitely myself try to freeze the player's arm. changing shutter speed int he middle of a series like this would be next to impossible, so I think this is a healthy compromise, especially if these were shot in the failing light towards the end of the day.

I am with ya. There is a shutter speed that should have locked the image down when he is cocked ready to swing and yet still allowed some motion in the racket head during the full swing. That is an ideal, which is pretty hard to lock down. So I see your points.

Croasdail wrote in post #5931826
I am with ya. There is a shutter speed that should have locked the image down when he is cocked ready to swing and yet still allowed some motion in the racket head during the full swing. That is an ideal, which is pretty hard to lock down. So I see your points.

And I yours!