Live-Action Gymnastics Meet Photography &
Team and Individual Gym Portraits
SPORTS PHOTOS USA
Covering gym meets from Chicago to Houston, and Phoenix to Atlanta
Flagship Product #1 -- Digital Painting on Canvas
The painted portrait has always been the ultimate in portrait expression. For less than the normal price of a RAGE or Spotlight Posters (if you order while the early-bird prices are active-they end at midnight Sunday after the meet concludes), you can now commission your own personalized ArtPiece. You'll select your favorite live-action image from a meet. Then decide on the digital painting technique you would like for us to use (or let us decide): Oil-on-Canvas, Watercolor, Pencil Sketch, Colored Pencil Sketch, or Acrylic Blend. You also get to choose the style (or leave it to us): The Force, Flow, Out-of-the-Box, Cosmos, In-the-Clouds, Fanfare. Within 10-14 days, we'll have a preview ready for your approval. After you approve it, we'll send it to the lab for production. They will giclee print an 11x14 image on archival artist's canvas. Upon completion, it will be shipped from the lab directly to your address to avoid excessive handling. There are also additional cost options for larger sizes (up to 30x40), and for finishing by mounting onto stretcher bars, or as a gallery wrap.
You can see several samples of Digital Paintings by going to Facebook.com and searching for the hashtag-- #DigitalPaintingsSPUSA. After you order, you will receive an email with step-by-step instructions for telling me what image you want to use, the technique you want me to use, and the style of the painting.
Flagship Product #2 -- WovenArt Throw
Warm like a hug, woven in tapestry to last forever, our WovenArt Throws will become the most treasured gift ever. Our blankets are woven tapestries. Each tapestry blanket is a work of art, woven from over eight miles of soft, multi-colored, 100% cotton yarn. Tapestry weaving is a lost art due primarily to the intense handwork necessary to complete the process. The textile mill we use was designed and built from the ground up to create the highest quality tapestries in the world. The mill is state of the art and has over thirty German Jacquard looms that are each capable of weaving over 30 blankets a day. Their tracking technology keeps your WovenArt Throw moving from concept to weaving to the laundry for washing and finally into shipping. It will be drop-shipped from the mill directly to your home.
A Really Special Offer
COMBO Package-Digital Painting AND All your Images
This special combo package is ONLY available before and during the meet. At midnight on Sunday, this package goes away.Parents who will allow US to select the images that will be perfect for a Digital Painting, AND also allow us to use the final Digital Painting as a display sample qualify for a really special offer.
You will receive an 11x14 Digital Painting on Canvas (with a primary image AND a partially transparent closeup image) at an even lower price than the early-bird price of the Digital Painting alone. AT NO ADDED COST, you also receive all the images of your gymnast on the beam and floor from this meet.
The images of your gymnast from the meet will be added to a ZIP folder and uploaded to a private location on our website within three weeks. You will receive a link to download them when they are successfully uploaded. Each image in the package is 2000x3000 pixels, large enough to print 8x10s from the full image at high quality.
Typically, the paintings from a meet will be ready to preview within 4 weeks following the meet. You will get to approve the painting before we send it for production. The physical canvas will be shipped to you rolled up in a mailing tube directly from the lab.
Get both products for less than the cost of the Painting alone. Remember, this package is only available until midnight Sunday following the end of the meet.
Individual Package of MY GYMNAST'S Images - Downloadable ZIP folder
We try to capture images of every gymnast at the meet on two rotations. The Order System will show which rotations we are covering at the meet. With 3 exceptions, all the images of your gymanst will be added to a ZIP folder and uploaded to a private location on our website. I will remove images which are badly out of focus, images which are too dark to use, and images which are badly composed. If a finger or foot is not in the image frame, you will get the image. If, however, the gymnast's foot is the only part of him or her in the frame, the image will be removed.
Within three weeks, you will receive an email with a link to download the ZIP folder. This delivery option is provided at no extra cost to you. There are other extra-cost methods of delivery. Each image in the package is 2000x3000 pixels, large enough to print 8x10s from the full image at high quality. Pursuant to U.S. copyright law, each image will have a small copy of our logo in the corner of the image.
WHOLE TEAM Package of Images - Every gymnast from your gym in this session
The WHOLE TEAM package saves lots of money. One parent orders/pays, and everyone reimburses that parent. The WHOLE TEAM package is only available until midnight Sunday after the meet ends. This package is as low as $20 per gymnast for a team of 6 gymnasts or more (there are also smaller discounts for teams of 1-5 gymnasts.) We will put each gymnast's images into their own ZIP folder and upload them separately to my website. We will email the parent who placed the order the links to each ZIP folder. The ordering parent will forward the appropriate link to each parent. Each image in a Whole Team Package is 2000x3000 pixels, large enough to print 8x10 from the full image at high quality.
With 3 exceptions, all the images of each gymnast will be added to an individual ZIP folder. I will remove images which are badly out of focus, images which are too dark to use, and images which are badly composed. If a finger or foot is not in the image frame, you will get the image. If, however, the gymnast's foot is the only part of him or her in the frame, the image will be removed.
Within three weeks, you will receive an email with a link to download the ZIP folder. This is the only delivery option for the WHOLE TEAM package. Each image in the package is 2000x3000 pixels, large enough to print 8x10s from the full image at high quality. Pursuant to U.S. copyright law, each image will have a small copy of our logo in the corner of the image.
Regional Championship Commemorative Poster
Honor your gymnast's accomplishment this year with a Regional Championships Commemorative Poster! There are three designs: one for Floor Exercise images, one for Beam images, and one that is generic. After the meet, you will receive an email with instructions for selecting your favorite primary image and the secondary image. We painstakingly extract your gymnast from the original images. The images are dropped into a multi layered template created especially for this meet. Some of the background elements will be adjusted to coordinate with the colors in your gymnast's leotard. The Regional Meet logo is included in the design to remind everyone that your gymnast competed at the Regional Championships.
After you approve the final design, we'll send it to our lab for printing onto a luster-finish archival paper that you can enjoy for years. The Regional Championships Commemorative Poster is printed in a 10"x15" format (optional sizes are 12"x18", 18"x27", 20"x30", and 24"x36").
RAGE and Spotlight Posters
Let these multi-image posters tell the story of your competition. Beginning with your favorite five images, we painstakingly extract your gymnast from the original image. The images are dropped into a multi layered template that lets arrange the 5 extracted images into a dynamic, eye-catching template. We enhance the final design by using special blending modes until the layers work together perfectly to make an astonishing poster. After you approve the final design, we'll send it to our lab for printing onto a super-high-gloss archival paper that you can enjoy for years.
The RAGE Poster is printed in a panoramic 30"x10" format. The Spotlight Poster is printed in a more traditional vertical 12"x18" format.
SOLO Poster
A salute to those who put in the hours to excel in competition, the SOLO poster is designed around a single image. As with most of our posters, the gymnast is extracted from the original image, and inserted into the chosen template. We add the gymnast's name, gym name, and the year. This poster is printed onto archival luster portrait paper as a 20"x16" poster that you can enjoy for years to come. Choose from Tsunami, Signature, Carbon, or Intensity styles.
Beauty & the Beam Poster
The Beam. That nefarious 16 foot long by 4 inch wide, leather covered nemesis. Until mastered, it creates fear, nervousness, and worry as a gymnast prepares to mount it and perform. It is a Beast. The name of this poster pays homage to the legacy of this event.
When your Beauty tames the Beam, select one of her live-action images for this iconic poster. We'll extract her from the original image, incorporate her into the template, add the meet name (or the meet logo for championship meets), her name, and the year. The finished design will memorialize her achievement for her lifetime (with proper care).
You will approve the final design before we send it to the lab for production. When completed, the lab will send this poster directly to the address you provided in your SPUSA account.
The Beauty & the Beam Poster is printed in a panoramic 20"x10" format on super-high-gloss archival photo paper.
NextLevel Mini-Poster
Do you want the pizzazz of our multi-image posters (the RAGE and Spotlight Posters), but want to save some money? The NextLevel Mini-Poster is an extraction poster (the gymnast is extracted from from the original image) with up to three images in an 10x8 pirnt format. After you approve the final design, I'll transmit the file to the lab. The lab will print the image on a luster-finish, archival photo paper. The print will be drop shipped directly to your address from the lab.
