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Check out these cool athlete portraits
Jay Janner, Photographer
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Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 1:48 PM on 07.07.09 |
->> Check out these cool athlete portraits shot by my friend, mentor and personal hero “Magic” Mark Reis at The Colorado Springs Gazette.
http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=7890
How’d you do that, Mark? |
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Alex Menendez, Photographer
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Orlando | FL | USA | Posted: 2:12 PM on 07.07.09 |
->> Sweet images. The depth looks really cool.
Good job!
alex |
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Joe Morahan, Photographer
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Denver | Co | USA | Posted: 2:18 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> great shots!!! Way to go |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 2:53 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> Unique to me and very nice! |
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Todd Spoth, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 3:10 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> I miss the Springs, Mark, and the rest of the guys! |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Maryville | MO | USA | Posted: 3:17 PM on 07.07.09 |
->> Mark,
Can you chime in about the light sources for the backgrounds? I'm curious if that's something created in Photoshop or what? And was the large group a single shot or a composite? Few photographers have the space to take an wide image like that. |
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Chad Hipolito, Photographer
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Red Deer | AB | Canada | Posted: 4:10 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> Diggin those portraits, was a lensbaby invloved for some of the shots? |
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Mark Reis, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 5:04 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> Thanks for the nice comments. The portraits were shot with a Lensbaby. The spotlight effect was created by shooting gelled strobes through cardboard/foamcore cutouts in the shapes of the spotlights onto the studio wall behind each of the athletes. The big group photo is a Photoshop composite of individual photos of the athletes shot with the spotlight shape strobed on the wall behind them. An overhead hair light with a grid spot on it hopefully suggests that the spotlight is on the athlete instead of on the wall behind. |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Maryville | MO | USA | Posted: 7:21 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> If I understand you correctly, the backgrounds were projected with a cookie or gobo made from foam core. Very cool. |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 7:55 PM on 07.07.09 |
| ->> Very, very cool. Which Lensbaby were you using? |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 11:29 PM on 07.07.09 |
->> Mark ... One word:
WOW! |
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Robert Seale, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 12:42 AM on 07.08.09 |
->> Very, very nice! You guys always do a great job with that section. Those may be the sharpest pictures I've ever seen taken with a lens baby.
Great job! |
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Robert Beck, Photographer
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Carlsbad | CA | USA | Posted: 2:53 PM on 07.08.09 |
| ->> Yes....Those are very good. Great idea. |
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Nina Zhito, Photographer
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bay area | CA | | Posted: 8:12 AM on 07.09.09 |
| ->> These are just gorgeous.... and I'm struggling a bit to visualize the set up. The circles of light are gelled strobes shot through holes in foam core, right? How are these bright circles of light related to the 'spotlight effect'----the streaks of light on the wall? How much was the foam core cut? To pretty much the size of the image we see of light splashing? Thanks for your thoughts... |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:21 AM on 07.09.09 |
| ->> beautiful job Mark |
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Trevor Brown, Photographer, Assistant
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 10:24 AM on 07.09.09 |
->> I see a sportsshooter article in Mark's future since none of us can understand how the heck he did this.
Truly something new and unique!
Great job Mark. |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | Lower 48 | Posted: 10:51 AM on 07.09.09 |
->> Just jumping on the bandwagon.
I agree with Robert -- you all set the bar very high with our prep athlete tabs, and these images DO NOT disappoint.
Thanks so much for sharing. I will definitely keep your tech tips in mind ...
- gerry - |
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Mark Reis, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 1:13 PM on 07.09.09 |
| ->> Sorry, I'll try to explain this better. I cut the shape of the spotlight image out of large sheets of foam core and large sheets of black studio backdrop paper (about 3'x 3'). These cutouts were basically the shapes of long triangles with a small circle cut out of the top point of the triangle to represent the actual "light." Sometimes I cut two or three of these shapes out of one piece foam core and sometimes just one of these shapes on a single sheet. These were then suspended to the sides just out of frame behind the athlete so when a gelled strobe was shot through them it would create a light in that shape on the background behind the athlete. I made enough of these so the patterns of the spotlights would be different on each portrait. In Photoshop I did some masking and toning to enhance the spotlight effect. I selected the "light" circles with the eliptical marquee tool (feathered) and lightened them to make them look hotter than the spotlight shape they were supposed to be creating. I couldn't get this effect "in camera" but since these portraits are illustrative in nature and obviously contrived, I figured it was ok to do this kind of Photoshop work on them. |
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Rick Rickman, Photographer
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Laguna Niguel | CA | USA | Posted: 2:56 PM on 07.09.09 |
| ->> Nice work Mark! It's wonderful to see creative thinking at work that makes what could have been very pedestrian images become works of art. Thanks too for the description and the how to. I also love it when older dogs show off new tricks. You're in good company with the likes of David Burnett, Brian Smith, Joe McNally and several others. Not that you're an old dog, more like the Alpha Male. You're the Man! |
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