This past Sunday the New York Giants played host to the Indianapolis Colts in their pre-season home opener. For all of Big Blue’s home games, I use my Canon 7D camera and Sigma 10-20 mm lens to capture photos… Immediately after the game I check out all of the pics and decide which one I want to work on…

This week,

I chose the following picture:

Before I started shooting, I was aware of the fact that I would need to do some retouching to make the photo look just the way I wanted. As Andre began running onto the field, I started walking perpendicularly to him, all-the-while letting my camera shoot on motor drive to capture all of the background elements that I would need to use in post-production. Typically I could shoot other elements individually but

since Andre’s entrance onto the field happens all within about 20 seconds, I had to think of a quick work around. Ultimately I ended up using elements from 6 different photos to create my final product, using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge.

Check out the screen capture from my 2.5hr retouch session. (5000% of original speed):