RE: Wanna make a Scirocco List Calendar?

["MarkThomas" <scirocco.gt@virgin.net>]

How about a small section of the calendar dedicated to not quite so perfect
rocs.
That way those of us, including me, can offer pics of our cars.
Unfortunately, being a student in loads of debt doesn't really provide me
with the necessary funds to own a perfect car, and the fact that I need it
every day doesn't help either.
Anyway, it would be great to see my car up on a calendar.

What does everybody else think?
Small section on average looking cars?
maybe one on beaten up cars with multi coloured panels etc?

Say yes, I want my car on that calendar.

Mark Thomas '87 Scirocco GT
Email: <mailto:scirocco.gt@virgin.net>
Have a look at my Website
<http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.thomas15/index.html>


> 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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