"The Boys of Fall"

[ACArmstrong]

I had to go shoot some high school football team/individual photos for a local weekly today. The team/individual shots were standard fair, but I snapped a few of the Bearden HS Bulldogs for myself...

"Wrangling the Seniors"


"Ooh...it's almost time - I can taste it in the air."


"Standout"


"Waiting for Fall"


"Fernando: The Bulldog"

[paulnj]

Great images, but who is that on the ladder?

[Lionheart]

Great pics AC! I'll be taking pics later this year for the local high school football team. I hope mine turn out even a fraction as nice as yours. btw, how do you do that border on your photos? I love it!!!!

[ACArmstrong]

Great images, but who is that on the ladder?

Paul, that's the School Photographers - I was tagging behind them shooting for newspaper stock - ya know - in case some kid scores 3 touchdowns in a game, they'll have a stock head shot of the kid.

[ACArmstrong]

Great pics AC! I'll be taking pics later this year for the local high school football team. I hope mine turn out even a fraction as nice as yours. btw, how do you do that border on your photos? I love it!!!!

Lionheart - the border is an action - just record these steps and you'll have it.

1. copy background layer to new layer
2. select the new layer
3. transform the new layer - ctrl+T - hold down the shift and alt key and drag a corner toward the center - this will keep the aspect ratio. I usually decrease the size by about 10-15% for a decent sized border around the original.
4. Select Layer effects for the new layer:
- 5px white stroke inside
- drop shadow, set to normal, 40%, distance 0, size to your liking (so you can see it)
5. Select the background layer
6. Filter, Gaussian Blur - 20px
7. Flatten the image.

That'll do it, and if you record it as an action, it takes mere seconds to do.

[paulnj]

Now that's thinking ahead ;)