College and pro athletes get media day. Your senior gets one shot at a season worth keeping. It starts with a photo that was made to be four feet tall, not one stretched into it.
Shooting Trio builds senior banners in Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Eagle, and Kuna the way they're built for the pros: a real photo session, professional lighting, and a layered Photoshop composite, printed on heavy vinyl and hung where the whole crowd can see it. Watch one build itself, layer by layer. The design matters, but it's the photograph underneath that makes or breaks a banner.
Keep scrolling: 22 athletes, 15 date items and the background elements assemble into the printed 12x18 schedule poster.
⭐ 95+ five-star Google reviews$45 flat — individual senior banners$6/sq ft team bannersProof before print, every time7 days — not 5 weeks🇺🇸 Veteran-owned, Meridian
TL;DR: a custom senior banner in Boise costs $45 flat at Shooting Trio, custom-sized up to five feet, with the design, a proof before printing, and a social sharing digital version included. We photograph the athlete ourselves with professional lighting, build the banner in Photoshop layers, and can turn one around in five days. Any sport, any school in the Treasure Valley.
Individual senior banners — every sport, every school
Individual senior banners (senior posters, if that's what your school calls them) aren't a football-only product. We build them for every sport and every Treasure Valley school: true school colors, and each athlete's name and number exactly as they appear on the jersey. Below is a small sample from the collection. Move your cursor over any banner (tap on your phone): each one is a real, layered Photoshop build, and every layer moves on its own.
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24″ × 72″
35″ × 42″
20″ × 30″
32″ × 48″
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36″ × 47″
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24″ × 72″
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Shown at true relative scale: every banner is custom-sized to where it hangs: rail, fence, or gym wall. And these aren't mockups: you'll find Nauva's banner hanging at Rocky Mountain in the gallery below, and Declan's on the Eagle fence a little further down. Not sure on sizing? How high school banner photography works →
Here's the truth behind senior year, and it's the reason we take these shoots as seriously as we do: NCAA data says only about 7 in 100 high-school athletes go on to play any sport in college. For roughly 19 out of 20 seniors, this fall or this spring is the last one: the last home game, the last time that name gets announced over the loudspeaker.
An individual senior banner is how that season gets kept, not just decorated. It hangs on the stadium rail or the gym wall all season, and on senior night it goes home with the family.
Watch a senior class see their banner for the first time
The Rocky Mountain marching band seniors, meeting the banner made for their final season. This is what we're really making, not vinyl.
On senior night we pull the banners off the outside of the stadium and display them inside for all the spectators to see, then hand them out to the seniors at the banquet. The banners were always well done and finished before our first home game. Media day was always fun for the girls, and they always had great photos to choose from. Well worth the money. I still have my daughter's banner hanging in my garage.
Most senior banner companies are print shops first. They know vinyl, ink, and turnaround, and nothing about photographing an athlete. Plenty of them will slap a name and a number on whatever photo you upload, blown up until the pixels show. We're not that.
I coached my own son's soccer team before I ever photographed anyone else's, and I'm a U.S. Navy veteran. As a former coach and a father of athletes, I know what makes a great sports photo, and I know what it means to watch a season end. A banner is only as good as the picture underneath it.
Where it started: Rocky Mountain football seniors, September 2018. Eight seasons later, we still build their banners. Read the full origin story →And where it is now: a Rocky Mountain senior from this summer's banner makeup session. Key light, rim lights, smoke. Same program, eight seasons of craft later.
We built this business the other way around: Shooting Trio started as a youth sports photography company, and the banner is what we build once the photo is already right. Every senior is shot with professional lighting: key light, gelled rim lights, sometimes a smoke session for the full media-day look you'd see in a college hype video or a magazine spread. Sport-specific posing, game face, clean form: real athletes, never faked, on their actual field or on designed backgrounds built by hand in Photoshop.
You can spot the difference from the bleachers: flat, straight-on flash turns muddy and lifeless when it's blown up to four feet tall. Directional light, with a key light shaping the face and a rim light cutting the athlete off the background, is what makes a banner look alive at any distance.
Then the banner comes together as a full body composite: background, team typography, and the athlete cut out and placed layer by layer. Nothing auto-generated, nothing stretched. That's why it still looks realistic three feet away and forty feet away: it's your kid, on their best day, printed big.
We call it the Pro Treatment, and it isn't an upsell. It's the default on every senior banner we build. College and pro athletes get this treatment. Why shouldn't your senior?
We schedule several months in advance and always work back from the date we need the banner. Mark is super easy to work with and accommodating when a student can't make the scheduled photoshoot. He takes various poses of each student and is a master of arranging all the individual photos onto a single banner so they look like a cohesive group shot. I've had several parents ask me how we got everything so perfect in one group shot! It's hard to imagine our program without a senior banner showcasing the hard work and dedication our students put into the Grizzly Marching Band.
Shot individually
Sport-specific posing, directional lighting, and real retouching for every senior. The photo is made for the banner, not squeezed into it.
Built in layers
Composited and proofed before anything prints, so you catch a typo on screen, not on vinyl.
Missed photo day?
We composite seniors in seamlessly from a makeup session, nobody gets left off the banner.
Panoramic team banners — up to 42 feet of season
Some seasons deserve more than an 8×10. Our panoramic team banners run up to six feet tall and up to forty-two feet long: the full varsity roster standing shoulder to shoulder along the outfield fence or the stadium rail. Bigger than life-size. Every athlete photographed individually with the same lighting, then composited into a single seamless line, so the kid on the far end looks as sharp as the kid in the middle.
School bus
🚌 ~35 ft
This banner
14 ft
Yes, we've printed banners longer than the bus that brings the team to the game.
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Owyhee girls varsity softball: printed 14 ft × 40 in.
And sometimes the banner rides along. For Owyhee softball, we made a custom modified version of their team banner as a sticker wrap for the side of the charter bus that carried them to the state tournament, which they won.
What do senior banners cost? See it in 30 seconds
No configurator, no "request a quote" black hole. Individual banners are $45 flat, with design, proof, and social sharing digital version included. Team and panoramic banners are $6 per square foot ($199 minimum). Nationally, banner-only print shops run $36–$100 and the photo is entirely on you; ours are built from a professional session (your team's photo day or a makeup shoot) shot specifically to be enlarged.
Shooting Trio vs. a banner-only print shop
Shooting Trio
Banner-only print shop
Price per senior banner
$45 flat, design included
$36–$100 nationally, design varies
The photo
Shot by us with professional lighting, made to be enlarged
You supply it; quality depends on your file
Proof before print
Every time
Varies by shop
Turnaround
5 days when a team needs it
Often faster on print alone
Plenty of photographers offer banners. Offering them and knowing them are different things, and two questions sort it out fast: "What weight is the vinyl, and how are the edges finished?" and "Do you offer custom sizes, or are yours a standard size?" If they have to check on the first, someone else is printing it. If the answer to the second is a standard size, the banner is being made to fit their template, not your fence.
Our answers, for the record: individual banners are 13 oz vinyl with welded hems, grommets at all four corners and a center grommet on taller banners to keep them taut. Team banners are 15 oz, because their size needs the strength, with grommets around the full perimeter every two to three feet. And every banner we make is custom-sized to where it hangs: we measure the rail, fence, or gym wall first.
And a banner-only shop isn't necessarily the cheaper route: one local printer charges $9 per square foot for the printing alone, with the photo and design entirely on you. Our $6 per square foot includes the design, and the photo session behind it is the part that decides how the banner looks at four feet.
Why the photographer's price matters more than it looks: some programs cover banners through the booster club or a sponsor, but plenty of schools pass the cost straight to the parents. If yours does, the team email goes out saying "banners will be $X each," and the photographer's price is exactly what lands on each family. Several photographers in the Valley charge $75 to $85 for a standard-size 36×48 senior banner. Ours are $45, custom-sized. That's $30 to $40 back in each family's pocket, or back in the program's budget if the boosters or a sponsor are covering the banners.
Your roster
Individual senior banners
$45 flat each — custom-sized up to 5 ft on the long edge, proof + social sharing digital included. Larger banners quoted individually.
Team / panoramic banner
$6/sq ft ($199 minimum) — photograph-based or full composite, design included.
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Need photo day too?
$40/athlete flat-fee prepay — every photo, fully retouched, one-week delivery. Best for teams of 20+.
Estimate
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Ballpark for planning: every banner is custom-sized to where it hangs, and you approve a proof before anything prints. Final quote from our team.
Individual banner or team banner — which one does your program need?
Not a composite — a photograph, enhanced
Team banners come two ways. The composite (like the poster at the top of this page) builds every athlete in individually. This is the other way: one real photograph of Mountain View's 2025 seniors on their own field, enhanced with text and logos in layers. The players are cut back out on top, so the giant type sits behind them and the jumping senior clears the letters.
Same $6/sq ft either way: a style choice, not a price tier. Authentic game-day feel vs. the designed composite look. Many programs pick the photograph for the fence and a composite for the gym.
Most programs do both: banners for the seniors, one big piece for the team. Booster clubs often cover it as the senior gift, split it with parents, or trade a sponsor's logo on the banner for the cost. Here's what that looks like in place:
Eagle High varsity baseball — six senior banners and the team piece, one fenceBanners raise money, too. A custom 6 ft × 2 ft Maverick Football banner we created for the Mountain View boosters' silent auction fundraiser at Voodoo Brewing in Boise.Football and cheer, side by side on the fence at Meridian High
The banner wall — Treasure Valley teams we've built for
Cheer, lacrosse, baseball, soccer, and football, from Meridian to Kuna. Filter by type; tap any banner to see it big.
Hanging at Owyhee · railIn placeThe fence line · OwyheeIn placeRocky Mountain lacrosse · in placeIn placeGrizzly Lacrosse4′×8′Meridian CheerCompositePhoto team bannerBaseballTimberline TennisScheduleKuna OutlawsSponsor
Senior night banners, up before the first home game
A senior night banner is only useful if it's on the fence before the first home game, which means photos, design, a proof, printing, and delivery all have to happen ahead of that date, not the week of.
Photo dayFull team in one session; seniors picked for banners
DesignLayered build in Photoshop, sized to your exact rail or fence
ProofDigital preview — nothing prints until you approve
PrintHeavy vinyl, grommets matched to the mounting spot
HangUp before the first home game
Mark is the ultimate professional. He has a unique ability to make every athlete feel important and valued, treating each one like they’re the star of the team. After months of summer practices and hard work, the athletes are excited for the season to begin, and seeing their banners displayed before the first game is a moment they’ll never forget.
Mark works around busy schedules and individual needs to make sure every athlete is photographed and every banner is completed on time. His commitment to quality and his genuine care for the athletes make the entire experience seamless. I always knew the banners would be done right and ready for opening game day!
The Owyhee fence line — only three seniors this year, and every one of them hanging before the first home game
Timing by sport:
Senior football banner sessions — mid-July
Marching band and color guard banners — late July to early August
Sideline cheer — late July
Rugby senior banners — mid-August
Soccer — mid-August
Golf senior banners — late August works
Spring sports — January–February
Schedule at least two weeks out from the first home game. Cutting it close happens. We've turned a banner in five days when a team needed it, so talk to our team before you assume it's too late.
Senior banner questions, answered
$45 flat, which includes design, proof, and a social-sharing digital version. Nationally, banner-only shops charge $36–$100 and the photo is up to you; ours are built from a professional photo session (your team's photo day or a makeup shoot) shot specifically to be enlarged.
Custom-sized to where it hangs: rail height, fence, or gym wall. Up to five feet on the long edge is covered by the flat rate; larger banners, like a six-foot rail piece, are quoted individually. Standard sizes are why banners flop, literally. We measure first.
Two weeks before the first home game at minimum; four is ideal. Fall sports book early: senior football banner sessions in mid-July; marching band, color guard, and sideline cheer in late July; rugby and soccer in mid-August; golf can go as late as late August. Spring sports shoot in January–February.
Yes. We run makeup sessions at the studio. A $50 deposit holds the spot and applies in full to their photo order, and the senior gets composited into the banner seamlessly.
Booster club as a senior gift, a program/parent split, or a sponsor trade: logo on the banner in exchange for covering it.
Individual banners are 13 oz vinyl with welded hems and grommets at all four corners, plus a center grommet on taller banners so they hang taut. Team and panoramic banners are 15 oz vinyl for the extra strength their size needs, with grommets around the full perimeter, typically every two to three feet. UV-stable inks, built to hang outside all season.
Roll, never fold. Dry before storing, keep in a tube.
One senior season. One shot at keeping it.
Price your athlete's banner now, or text our team and talk through sizing, timeline, and school colors. You'll see a proof before anything prints, either way.
