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.
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.
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...
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
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).
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
