Swim Poster

One of my last projects for the swim team, with some help from a friend we made this.

Hard to believe the season is over and my projects are all finished - for last year... now I am already thinking about what I want to do for next season.

Conference pictures are all uploaded and you can see day four by this link

Day Four

One more day, one more day, one more day!

I have successfully edited and uploaded day three of the SBC pictures and only day four stands in my way. However, day four is going to be quiet the challenge.

Over 1,300 pictures taken that I need to cut all the fat away and only upload the good stuff. Day four was really hard on the seniors because it was their last day of competition, there was a lot of tears along with a lot of emotion inside the pool.



The girl's senior class - Lady Tops 2010-2011

Now ever since I learned this nifty trick in photoshop I have used it to the max. I think it's perfect for basketball, football and other sports but always thought it would be difficult to look decent with swimming pictures. The swim caps look good when the towel is only thing in color, but it looks silly if they're swimming in the water.

With the seniors in their colorful shirts, I thought this would be the perfect (and very limited) time to do this. It was very time consuming - and I'm sure there's a quicker way to do it than the way I do - but I am very happy with the final turnout. I wanted to be completely done with conference pictures by the end of March - which I think can still happen. Just all depends on everything else that I need to get done which includes:
- DVD videos to everyone that still is waiting their copy
- Need to finish the team poster so I can put that order in
- The new post cards idea is really fresh in my head and I am having a hard time putting it aside until it's completed.

And there was something else..oh, yeah.

- Have to focus on photo so I can graduate - kind of a big one right there.

But the others involve income and getting my name out there so they're important too... ugh, but so is getting out of school. Geez, too much to do, too much to do.

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New Post Cards

With the end of the swimming season, my imagination begins rolling for things I would like to do for next season either differently or new all together.

I would like to do the post cards again to give away at meets, but this year with a little twist!

Last year, I only had the information (my name and website) on the front underneath the picture and only featured two pictures - one for the men and one for the women.



It killed me to watch people pick up the cards and immediately turn it over to find there was nothing written on the back. Just white space.

So here's the twist:


This will be the back of the card, complete with all the important information necessary - even comes with the "like us on facebook" icon! Maybe I will get more followers this way.

AND THEN! To make things even better.. I think I am going to have more options than just two different shots this year and feature a each senior with their own postcard. I am still planning this one out to get out all the kinks, but I think I can make it work and I can make it uber cool!

I do think having the back on the card completely full of all information needed will not only add a change in from last year but make it more complete.

Any comments - questions, or concerns?

Last Swim Meet

For me, the end of the WKU swimming season was bittersweet and left my mind racing on ideas and thoughts about what to do next season.

While neither the men's or women's team came away from Texas with a NCAA championship trophy it was overall a great trip. I shot over 5,000 pictures - most to be cut out and deleted once I go through them for editing - but the pure emotion and competitive nature was captured in many of my photographs.

After I captured the picture shown above, I began to think that it was like pictures like this that are run in magazines and newspapers - and sometimes run big. Honestly, it felt like I could have cried because of how much pride I had in myself for this picture. I may not make As in my photo classes or ever be published in anything for school... but when I have a passion for something and believe in myself I think that I can do anything with sports photography.

I have a lot that I would still like to and need to learn and working with swimming I would like to use underwater equipment and see about having those pictures next year as options for buys. That's my next project and research that will begin.

The video was also a big hit which made me feel very accomplished. Again, I have a lot to learn, but least I am (outside of photo class) having a lot of fun doing it.

To see all the pictures from Conference 2011, please visit all the galleries