The time has come once again for VBS portraits. This year I shot over 225 portraits, which included all of the staff and kids present during the first three nights of VBS.

The idea was to design a wanted poster that would work with the Avalanche Ranch theme. It was a lot more ambitious than last year’s mere 58 portraits. There was also quite a bit more design time and post processing this time but Photoshop’s actions and batch automation took the edge off of repetitive parts. The final images were printed 4×6 at a local 1-hour lab and sent home with the kids on the fourth night.

Below are some of my favorites. If you would like additional copies of your child’s wanted poster, please contact Mindi at the church office.

Special thanks to:

• Mayang’s Free Textures – for the wood background texture provided free from her large texture library.
• Black Spectrum Productions – for the parchment background licensed under Creative Commons.