need basketball dunk.

[crimson dark]

I need some help.
I am trying to find a photo or vector of basketball being slammed using two hands from above.
if anyone knows of where I can find or has one that would be awsome.
I have spent the last 3 days searching and trying to find something but I can never find a good image and all the clip art I find is to cartoony.
thanks for any replys.
Nathan

[D-Frag]

damn, 3 days, you could of drawn a whole series on the subject in the time it took you to do the research :)

[Craig B]

I assume you need free (??) ... because Getty has a few like that, such as here (http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/classes/FrameSet.aspx?&UQR=qqgkdp&pk=4&source=front&lightboxView=1&txtSearch=slam%20dunk&selImageType=7&chkLicensed=on&chkRoyaltyFree=on&chkNLM=on).

But there are probably some good "free images" that you can use as a basis for redrawing as D-Frag said.

[CamarotaDesign]

just go to NBA.com or Yahoosports.com get an image, and vector trace it. You can't use any NBA or College basketball player image without paying royalties, but you can make a vector of it.

[Craig B]

Actually Cam, if I remember right, you need to be careful using vector tracings as well, because it's the likeness that you're using and because you're reproducing the photo (to some degree). I'm no lawyer though.

[crimson dark]

thanks for the info guys I guess I wil be tracing.
I don't think tacing will be a problem the client just wants 2 hands on the ball making it seem like its being slammed so really nobody will be able to tell what photo it was traced from.
THanks a lot for the input it helped a lot.
Nathan

[CamarotaDesign]

Actually Cam, if I remember right, you need to be careful using vector tracings as well, because it's the likeness that you're using and because you're reproducing the photo (to some degree). I'm no lawyer though.

Yes, you are right, you need to have some discretion. If you reproduce it to the point of being an exact or near exact representation, then you are violating copyright. but if you use it as a "reference" and change some things, like maybe change the skin and jersey colors, give the guy more hair, change the background, etc then it has essentially become a new piece of art.


The same goes for more than just vector tracing.
Jeff Koons got in trouble for making a sculpture of some puppies from a photograph, in which he copied the photograph exactly in the sculpture. So he lost that one.

[Craig B]

Sounds good crimson. And I agree Cam, change things up fairly significantly and you should be fine.