Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Indeed, if I volunteer again (and dragging my wife with it) and people are willing to let us handle it again, the instructions would be far different: Send two images, cropped to your liking, make sure that the horizontal pixel size is at least 2500 pixels, output to sRGB space, highest image quality JPEG, with a single caption per image in the form of "<first name> <last name> <caption>" But lets wait for 9 months :-) Thanks On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > Yes, I agree, Geoff. > > Tina > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > *Subject*: [Leica] LUG Yearbook > > *From*: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) > > Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:53:31 -0800 > > References: <CAH1UNJ2= > > zJq__PR2fc_3U1Z00eCoh5M_uOEaOPgnUhthn5RXiQ at mail.gmail.com> > > ------------------------------ > > I agree that Richard's book styling has made for a successful photo book > > and I am admiring many great images in there. I think that the target > > audience is still the same small group though, unless you attract > customers > > from outside the contributors list? That would be the magic trick if the > > goal was to generate donations for your chosen charity. > > > > For my own contributed images I was especially appreciative of the > pairing > > with Doug Herr (Richard asked us first) but was certainly happy too to > see > > them next to Charlie and Leo's fine work. > > > > For my two cents from when I was active in the LUG, it's maybe known I > was > > always an advocate for keeping the Leica aspect of the LUG alive. Others > > feel differently and the LUG has long had non-exclusively Leica content > > naturally. 2014 was a very significant year for Leica Camera of course, > > hence the extra content that I included in that year. Personally I would > > have liked my captions to have been retained as they were intended to > show > > results from the particular Leica equipment. Maybe that makes me the > > gearhead Leica buyer from Kyle's end notes! ;-) > > > > Editor's note is that you will need to completely replace the associated > > instructions and FAQ for 2016 (if you haven't planned to do that > already?) > > to match the new format of course. I'm not sure at all that the really > > detailed descriptions that I had included were very effective. > > All the best for 2016 to all. > > > > ........................................................ > > > > Jayanand and others: thank you for all your kind words on and off-lists. > > > > They mean a lot to us!!! > > Jayanand, you nailed the exact reasons why we we did what we did, we > wanted > > to produce a "genuine" photobook and it appears we have achieved some > > levels of success. > > > > THANK YOU. > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > >* Richard,* > > >* IMHO, you and your wife have done a fantastic job, and have elevated* > > >* our yearly offering from a documentary Yearbook to a genuine* > > >* Photobook!* > > >* Cheers* > > >* Jayanand* > > > > > >* _______________________________________________* > > >* Leica Users Group.* > > >* See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug < > > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug> for more information* > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto > > > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto