FIRST Stock Photos

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

You can usually correct dark photographs very well using a "Midtones Adjust" feature in photo editing software. Adjusting the midtones of images works wonders to brighten dark pictures without ruining the contrast or saturation.

Without trying to hijack this thread too much, beware if you do use this technique. The second photograph is visably noisier than the original, in that it brings out the imperfections in the smoothness of color in the original photograph. While it's not too bad in that photo, the darker your photo is the less likely it is to come out unscathed.

[Ashley Christine]

My team has A GAZILLION pictures on our team site.
Some may be of interest to you.

http://rollingthunder.smugmug.com

[Jon Jack]

I would sugest using very high resolution (atleast 3.2 megapixels) photographs. We had a member volunteer to sit in the stands at the Las Vegas Regional last year with a 5 (maybe 6) megapixel camera and take as many pictures as he could. We ended up with about a DVD-R full of pictures not to include other high resolution pictures taken by other students. Considering we only used 14 of the roughly 2000 pictures we have from last year we have plenty left over that we would be more than happy to give to people... Maybe I'll talk to our web site team and have them put most of them up there. Is anybody interested? It would be a safe bet to say we have multiple pictures of every team that went to the Las Vegas Regional last year.

The reason I sugest using high resolution pictures is because then you don't run the risk of pictures printing poorly/pixelated/too small/blury. If anyone needs picture(s) right away email me jjack@team1538.com with a description of the picture you are looking for and I will find a way to get it to you. If you can wait a few weeks you can go on our website and find about 900~2000 high resolution pictures.

[ChuckDickerson]

Thanks for all the information! We have dug through all of our team photos and completed our draft document. We only needed to use 1 non-team taken photo from the FIRST gallery.