Re: Wanna make a Scirocco List Calendar?

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <wje97@hamp.hampshire.edu>]

(sigh) and I have no Scirocco to take a picture of. Oh well. Claudia isn't
exactly pretty anyway.. she might look *interesting* with all of the beautiful
cars that will be on the calendar, but definitely not good (laugh).
    But if one gets made, and it's reasonably affordable, I *will* buy one. And
if I had a Scirocco, I'd contribute a picture. (Well, actually, no I wouldn't.
I never have and probably never will have a Scirocco that looks good).
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI
    '87 QSW
    http://bork.hampshire.edu

Brett Van Sprewenburg wrote:

> 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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