This is either going to be wildly popular or be a total flop, or something in the middle.
(Sorry, it's an old Mitch Hedberg joke.)
Our next theme for our lovely little readers' pictures portfolio is: "Camera." Any picture that has anything to do with a camera is fair game. Hopefully we will have some fun here.
How to Submit
This is a call for your own work, and you must own the rights to it, so please don't send me anything but that.
By submitting, you give me permission to reproduce the small JPEG of your picture on TOP and that's it. Your copyright remains yours.
To submit, use the subject line:
BDCamera
Just like that...no spaces, spelled exactly like that, no variations. Capital "C" in "Camera." The reason is that when I begin building the post, I will search my large email stack for that phrase as the subject, and if your email doesn't come up, then I won't see your picture.
Please pay attention to that. Last time, people really did...almost nothing got lost. Which I appreciated.
A dog does not have to appear in your picture. Although my philosophy is, it never hurts.
I'll announce the deadline when we get near it. No promises when the results will appear...I've learned from experience that these features just take time to build, so it'll get done when it gets done. There's only one little man behind the curtain pulling all the levers.
Email one or two JPEGs, 800 pixels wide, saved in sRGB. Include in the email your name, where you live, any technical details you care to share, your website URL if you want me to publish it, and whatever you want to tell other TOP readers about your picture.
Lots of people write a paragraph explaining their picture (see the "Yellow" portfolio for examples), so if you don't, just be aware that your picture might seem a little "naked" after it gets picked. (Because of course yours will get picked.)
My email address is mcjohnston at mac dot com. Replace the "at" and the "dot" with the proper symbols and get rid of the spaces. This modest attempt at disguising my address will not fool the web-crawling bots, but oh well.
So, five components:
"BDCamera" in the SUBJECT LINE;
PICTURE (must be your own!), 800 pixels wide in sRGB;
NAME;
WHERE YOU LIVE;
Any COMMENTS you care to make about the shot.
Hope you are up to the challenge! Have fun and don't be afraid to be creative. Total dweeby gearhead geekishness is not required but is certainly not discouraged. You're among friends. :-)
Mike
Book o' the Week
Jay Maisel: Light, Color, Gesture. This was suggested by Moose. I got to meet Jay Maisel once. Everybody should meet him in his books, if they haven't already. Might help; cannot hurt. Jay's is some of the most positive, hopeful, and generous picture-taking advice you'll find.
This book link is a portal to Amazon.
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Great idea! I'm looking forward to seeing what interesting cameras show up!
Posted by: Rob de Loe | Friday, 13 May 2022 at 09:39 AM
Great idea! I'm looking forward to seeing what interesting cameras show up!
Posted by: Rob de Loe | Friday, 13 May 2022 at 09:40 AM
"I got to meet Jay Maisel once. Everybody should meet him in his books, if they haven't already..."
I really like his book, "It's not about the F-Stop". It separates all the science and formulas from just seeing and getting photos. For those that are detail oriented, he does have a section, "OK, Sometimes it is about the F-Stops".
Posted by: Albert Smith | Friday, 13 May 2022 at 02:10 PM
What's the deadline for submissions?
Posted by: Stephen Scharf | Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 03:51 PM