First time having to blow up ISO 6400 with cycling lights to 20 x 30 and I think they held up well, although you can't tell here with web rez. Also found a snowflake brush that worked into the theme of the event fairly well. The Winter Wonderland lettering gets a bit lost over the snowflake brush when viewing on the web, but at full size, and with the letter beveling, it stands out just fine in large print. CC welcome.

These are really nice! I think that the selective color really workd in the main image. My daughters in house meet at WOGA is coming up and think that this could be an interesting treatment. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks. I'm usually not a big fan of selective coloring, but with typical busy BGs at gymnastics, I use selective coloring to get the subject and smaller collage images to stand out more.

Paul, is it really selective coloring or a cutout?

John Reynolds wrote:
Paul, is it really selective coloring or a cutout?

Selective. The gymnast is in her original background. After she gets selected, a mask is created between subject and BG so I have control over each in it's own layer.

totally impressive work here.

I would feel the need to drop the backgrounds on the top two posters a little darker - just to get rid of the brighter spots and remove the distractions...

I bet the posters look sweet at full size.

P, are these with the D300 or D3?

edit....
appologies to you P! i've just been informed by a kind FM'er that you are a canon Mark III shooter. my bad! loL!

great images BTW.

Edited by RONIN2 on Mar 28, 2008 at 07:02 PM GMT

great work! I love how the background is grey, makes the people really stand out!

I enjoy following your work. Helps me learn what the look of a pro is supposed to be

Paul, this just re-enforces what I put in my e-mail to you.....Classy.

Not knowing the details associated with gymnastics, is the "Level" indications like an age group.

Good Stuff......

Frank

Very nice I really like the selective color treatment and overall design.
I've had success blowing up ISO 3200 shots to this size and slightly larger but with a 40D I generally have had to fill the frame more with the subject to succeed, more like poster 3.
Old

Wow! Thanks for sharing. The selective color with busy backgrounds works here.
The full color inserts do help to set it off.

I may try this with some of my basketball with busy backgrounds.

Thanks
Russ

Try tilting those small pics

great looking posters...my only nit is the font size of the "levels" is too big...it caught my eye rather quickly and I'm not sure the level is so important (the level 6 is especially distracting...the level 4 blends in okay).

The levels are not an age guage, it is a skillset guage. It is like gymnastics on a curve - the highte the level number, the more difficult the forms.

To these ladies, their level is seriously important.

Paul, great contrast in the use of background color and the inserts colors. Make the poster pop out.

Tony

Awesome. I wouldn't change a thing, from the selective coloring to the straight small pics to the lettering personally. I do think the two vertical posters have a more dramatic effect, maybe because of the extra "snowflake" work or the extra borders. Excellent job.

Very nice work on the posters Paul.. The first two seemed a little busy at first but they are also pleasing to the eye. I like the selective color as I agree it takes the background distractions right out of the image.
Bob

Fan-freaking-tastic, Paul. Your posters are always an inspiration to me. Excellent. Can I ask where you found the snowflake brush?

John

Interesting I just downloaded Viveza from Nic I wonder how it would work on these...

Sweet work, Paul-- nice clean designs. The parents must be loving these...

Thanks everyone for commenting. When you have as much titling that the customer wants, it can be tough to balance out everything without it becoming crazy busy.

As for titled photos... I have done that in the past and on some posters, it can work. On these, I tried it, but it made it even more mad crazy busy, so I left them straight.

As for levels... yes, they are very important to the gymnast, especially when they get past the compulsory levels and enter Levels 7-10

Brush font...
Got to Adobe Exchange for actions, brush sets, custom shapes, styles. Great site. Been around for over 10 years. Started by a guy in his basement as a way to exchange Adobe actions and grew to over 100,000 downloadable programs including everything for all Adobe products. Bought out by Adobe in 2002.
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Thanks guys.

Tom D wrote:
Sweet work, Paul-- nice clean designs. The parents must be loving these...

Thanks Tom. I admire your work as well.

Paul, These look great from the Font to the layout
Selective color works well to separate and isolate images
very well done

These are sweet, Paul. And I like the little touches, such as the colors of the frames around the photos matching the leos, to the point where the two-tone leos have two colors of frame and the solid leo has only one. Oh, and now I'm looking again and seeing the same with the fonts. Very cool. I don't typically pick up on that kind of stuff but I can see how it really contributes to your overall effect here. Thanks for sharing these. I always enjoy seeing what you're doing with your posters.