UO Women’s Tennis

As mentioned last week, when I showed the photo I created for the University of Oregon Acrobatics and Tumbling team, this week is going to be dedicated to the image that I created for the University of Oregon’s Women’s Tennis Poster (if you didn’t see the Acro and Tumbling Photo click here for just the image and click here for the step-by-step behind creating the image).

The project once again came down to one simple request, make her look badass. The big difference here is that since I was working with one subject rather than a huge group of girls, I was able to have her do a ton of poses that I could use for various different concepts in mind (which kind of all meshed into this final image). This really paid off because my initial concept got rejected due to it looking too similar to another one of the team’s posters that hadn’t come out yet. Long story short, after 20-hours of retouching, this is what I came up with:

And once again, here’s the cool before and after slider. The image here is the actual final image that the U of O will be using for their poster. They needed the extra space on the right for branding and the schedule. However, the image above is my composition and how it will appear in my print portfolio.

Later in the week I’m going to try to provide a step-by-step guide behind this image as well. This one is going to be a little bit more difficult to break down into individual stages though due to how long it took to create. More or less the background was created the same was as the Acrobatics and Tumbling photo i.e. gradients, curves and my “HDR toning” technique. I’ll figure out something to put together for the end of the week!

For all of you gear-heads out there, here’s the gear that I used to create the Tennis Poster.

Camera: Canon 5d Mark II; Lens: Canon 70-200mm F/2.8L IS; Lighting: 3 x PCB Einstein 640s,  2 x 8.5″ Reflectors, and a 47″ Octabox.

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