The Bandits were in town last weekend, so I finally the chance to get some shots of their players. The hard part was trying to decide the colour scheme for their card design. Their logo has four colours, black, yellow, maroon and grey. Each of the other ABL teams has a fairly dominant team colour - Adelaide are dark blue, Canberra are orange, Melbourne brown, Perth red and Sydney light blue, so theirs were fairly easy to design. Historically Brisbane's predominant jersey colour was black, but I wasn't sure about using black as their background.
After several trials black seemed to be the colour that worked, with a slight variation to how I managed the colouring of the bio information. Add to the fact that it was sunny, glarey day when I took their photos and the bright highlights on the players photos needed to blend with the background, and I thought it worked with the black background.
The player I trialed the designs with was Terada Tetsuya, a Japanese pitching import who arrived with the Bandits for the remainder of the 2012-13 ABL season literally only days before this photo was taken. My understanding is that neither of the Bandit's Japnese imports are aligned with NPB teams. Tetsuya was playing with Niigata Albirex in the independent Baseball Challenge League back in Japan during 2012.
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| 2012-13 Brisbane Bandits Terada Tetsuya card front - © 2012 Adam East |
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| 2012-13 Brisbane Bandits Terada Tetsuya alternate card front - © 2012 Adam East |
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| 2012-13 Brisbane Bandits Terada Tetsuya alternate card front - © 2012 Adam East |
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