Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > > We have not broken the 10 people mark yet! Send in your contributions NOW. 10 x 2 is 20 images, that's enough for a book, So what's the rush? steve > > > ONLY 8+ weeks left, please contribute! > > > I will take contribution starting from (now) to *midnight PST Dec 15, > 2015*. > *No exceptions.* > > **** > It will follow the same format that Jim Shulman and Geoff Hopkinson used > for previous editions. The address to send your contribution is > richard at richardmanphoto.com > > This will be a non-profit, not juried/judged compilation of photos by any > interested photographer. Anyone may contribute and any brand of > equipment may be used. Please send photos that you have made during 2015. > There will be no obligation to buy the book which will be > published by Blurb and there will be hardcover, softcover printed versions > offered and an eBook for iPad. There will be a small surcharge only applied > for each purchase. For 2015 this will be the Second Harvest Food Bank in > the Silicon Valley. While a 3-bedroom starter home starts at 1.5 million > USD in Palo Alto, there are people who do not have enough to eat, even > here. > > *Please send two image files, ideally as attachments to one or two email > messages.* Be aware that some email clients may reduce the sizes of images > within messages by default. > > Ideal image files are JPEG files around 2000 to 3000 pixels on the long > side with file sizes of 1 to 2 megabytes. The sRGB color space > will be used when they are reproduced. > > The book will be in our usual 10 inches x 8 inches (20x25cm) landscape > layout. Whether in landscape or portrait orientation your images will not > be cropped or altered by the editor. They will be fitted into the standard > image layouts used. The Blurb software will size the images to fit. > > For the left hand page that will be a box 2680 pixels wide and 2250 pixels > high with a plain margin or as a full bleed image (with small > overlap of edges) of 2888 pixels wide x 2475 pixels high. > > For the right hand page that will be a box 1500 pixels wide x 1796 pixels > high (for a portrait orientation) or 2271 pixels wide x 1588 > pixels high (for a landscape orientation). Both right hand page options > leave room for a single caption for both images underneath. > > In the text of your email, *please provide a single caption for both > images. *This will be your name, and preferably a title for each > image. You may also like to include details of the equipment or similar > *short *comment. Here is an example: > > *Firstname Lastname* Opposite: 'left image title' Leica M3, Elmar 50 > f/3.5 > Above: 'Cats eating sushi' Fujifilm X-E1 XF 18-55, Boston LUG meetup > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information