Re: Wanna make a Scirocco List Calendar?

["Peter Walsh" <cerksies@hotmail.com>]

B&W or Color or Both? I could get some nice B&Ws or Color, but i can 
develope B&W, and my friend has an awesome (about $1000) camera that 
we could use, he has a rocco too.

Pete


>
>I dropped a little hint a while ago about making a Scirocco Mailing 
List
>calendar for next year (don't worry, I plan on making it Y2K 
compliant).
>
>I am in touch with people who can get this job done, really nicely.
>Large format, high resolution, nice covers, little pictures in the
>holiday boxes...you get the idea.  Professionally done stuff, not 
junky.
>
>Anyway, a large amount of pictures would need to be supplied.  
Typical
>web style/size images need not apply for many reasons (lack of 
resolution,
>poor image composition, bad lighting and exposure, etc.)  We would 
need
>some nice fresh stuff...
>
>I am by no means a professional photographer, but working around 
imaging
>at Kodak for more then a few years, I've picked up a few things. :)
>
>Start with film 100 - 200 speed to reduce the possibility of grain, 
and
>don't use a single use camera. :)  Digital imaging is
>great, but in all likelyhood, there aren't many people out there 
using
>the 10k-30k digital camera it takes to rival the quality of 35mm film
>when used as a source for offset printing. Some other tips would be 
to
>take into account the background, compose your scenes.  Frame your 
shots,
>get everything you want, or don't want.  Generally speaking and 
outside of
>a studio, natural light looks better then flash photography.  If it's
>going to be professionally printed, it ought to appear the most
>professional we can make it, right?
>
>Prime picture taking season (good lighting, long days, green trees 
and
>grass, many VW shows/gatherings to attend) is upon us.  Go to a park,
>have a buddy shoot a few of you at the next autocross or track event,
>whatever.  I'm sure we'll be taking *tons* of pictures during our
>cincy cruise and I'm really looking forward to the potential arial
>photos. Eat your heart out CCA! :)
>
>I would volunteer to collect the negatives for potential inclusion, I
>will scan them at very high resolution.  I'll put them up on the
>web (at a lower resolution of course) and the top X most popular ones
>as voted by the list get to be the main pages, and the others get
>to be in some of the little day boxes throughout the year.
>
>This will only happen if people actually make a real effort to
>contribute. So get clicking.
>
>How's that sound for a proposal?  Feedback is welcome, naturally.
>
>==Brett
>
>
>
> \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're 
small"
>\/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '85 Scirocco (Winter) | - 
brett@netacc.net
>
>
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