School Banners

A while back someone had some very cool banners in the background of some of their basketball photos. They were asked about them in the thread and they posted up some examples of them.

I was wondering if anyone remembered who it was or which tread they were in, I can't find the thread for the life of me. I have a high school that is looking to do some in their new gym and I wanted to show those to them.

Any other examples anyone has would be great as well.

Help me!

Maybe this one?
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=746548

Nope. I remembered that one as well though. These were smaller banners of the basketball team hung up in the gym.

This is killing me! I can see them in my head!

Seems like it was a post by Big K....I've tried searching for the thread and haven't found it yet.

You're right!

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=786447

Thanks Scott!

No problem! I would have spent more time searching, but had real work to do here at work.

Big K wrote in post #9077524
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Big K wrote in post #9077524
Yes, I also did the banners. It was a nice (profitable) project. I have been doing them for this school for a couple of years and now am doing them for several other schools after they come in and see them, they want them for their kids. Here is a better view of one of them.

Oh, yeah... I rememeber those. Very nice.

Hey Derek. If you have any questions about these let me know. Glad that Scott got you on the right path. I had not been on here yet today to see your post.

Big K wrote in post #9876366
Hey Derek. If you have any questions about these let me know. Glad that Scott got you on the right path. I had not been on here yet today to see your post.

Thanks Kevin, I should have known that they were ones that you had done!

Just looking for ideas really. I have a school booster club that wants to do some banners with some athletes and get businesses to sponsor the banners. They're looking at doing 15' x 4' ones though. They want to do action photos, but I'm thinking of steering them towards some posed (or staged action).

I'm trying to figure out what kind of images would be best. Just kind of thinking out loud!

DDCSD wrote in post #9876556
Thanks Kevin, I should have known that they were ones that you had done!

Just looking for ideas really. I have a school booster club that wants to do some banners with some athletes and get businesses to sponsor the banners. They're looking at doing 15' x 4' ones though. They want to do action photos, but I'm thinking of steering them towards some posed (or staged action).

I'm trying to figure out what kind of images would be best. Just kind of thinking out loud!

I would agree, the staged stuff is a better route mainly because you can control the shoot and have better light. The higher quality image holds up better to the major enlargement. It also helps if you can keep the background really clean since they need to be visible from a distance.

The other tough thing you will have is a 15x4, almost 4:1 ratio, is very difficult to do and have a person fill it properly. Not to mention, that is a HUGE enlargement.

Good luck with the project and hope you come up with a workable solution.

Big K wrote in post #9876614
I would agree, the staged stuff is a better route mainly because you can control the shoot and have better light. The higher quality image holds up better to the major enlargement. It also helps if you can keep the background really clean since they need to be visible from a distance.

The other tough thing you will have is a 15x4, almost 4:1 ratio, is very difficult to do and have a person fill it properly. Not to mention, that is a HUGE enlargement.

Good luck with the project and hope you come up with a workable solution.

Yeah, the ratios are troublesome. I'm guessing that they'll have the school logo at the top and a sponsor's logo at the bottom, so it might end up being closer to 2:1 for the actual images. At least that's what I'm going to recommend. We're pretty early in the planning stages, so we can go about anywhere with it. The only thing set is the 15' x 4' base size of the banners.

These are great banners. I've bookmarked this thread for future reference. Good luck w/ the project Dereck.

Little update. Looks like they're actually going to be 8x2 with 1ft logos on the top and bottom (school on top, sponsor on bottom). That leaves me with a 6x2 area to fill. Makes for an almost life-size image, but the subjects will have to be pretty much straight up and down.

DDCSD wrote in post #9885794
Little update. Looks like they're actually going to be 8x2 with 1ft logos on the top and bottom (school on top, sponsor on bottom). That leaves me with a 6x2 area to fill. Makes for an almost life-size image, but the subjects will have to be pretty much straight up and down.

That will still be pretty tough to fill. Attached is an example cropped to 3:1 ratio to show how even with a slight amount of width it will quickly throw in a lot of dead space. The first year I did these we tried to go with a ratio very similar and it was a real challenge. Actually had to retake all the photos to get it to work out. Not just because of the height to width ratio problems but because of variations from photo to photo. You could pretty easily go with a 2x6, save some money, have plenty of space for your top and bottom logos and still have the subjects be as big as they would be on a 2x8.

One suggestion I forgot to make earlier that the last paragraph reminded me of is use a tripod and set up your first shot using the tallest subject and use either a prime lens or tape down your zoom ring. I learned the hard way that if you don't you will lose proper height proportions from picture to picture when they are hanging side by side. You will also end up with uneven horizon references from banner to banner. Since you need to maximize your pixels to handle the mega enlargement setting up based on your tallest subject will give you the max pixels for all the shots.

My goal is to try and shoot everything so if you hung the banners side by side they would look like they were all one big picture and everyone is size proportional to each other.

Good luck and have fun.

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Thats pretty cool. I was at a lacrosse tournament that did the same thing for the seniors going to a d1 college