Skip, are you really painting your car orange, or is that a joke? (please be a joke)

 

Right now let's just get people to take photographs. The committee/coordinator/designer/editor part will follow. But for the meantime I guess I'll stand in as an organizer. Once we get plenty of pictures to use, the rest will fall into place - getting the pictures is going to be the tough part and that was also the part that slowed the last attempt at putting a calendar together.

 

With the picture part .. y'all can send me the pics to my email account. I have 1gig space available with my email provider. I could just create a seperate folder for mid-a and keep all the pictures sent to me in there. ANd i doubt i'll get more than a gig worth of pictures ... and if i do, i'll just download them and save them to my 200gig harddrive ... I have all the space in the world for mid-a calenders 2006, 2007, 2008, etc.

-Carlo

 

Carlo,
Alex may correct me, but as far as right now goes. I think you might be our main photographer for the Hampton Roads area. I'm not knocking the quality of anyone else's, but from what i've seen your camera has great pictures

 

AgS2K does it for $$$. I think his site is boilingpoint.com

Besides, how can there be "one" photographer? Nevermind... just read HR area.

 

My fraternity made a high quality calander this past semester with a printing company in norfolk. We paid 2500ish for 500 calanders. Its like 500 more for an additional 500. That was with all designing and photo's done by us.

You arnt going to get an actual printing company to touch them if there isn't a big quantity. Setup costs on something like that are really high and its cheap to keep printing once the press starts. Internet programs are probably the only realistic way to do it, unless tons of people our interested.


So.. basically Im of no help, but im going to post how ours ended up. We had sponsors, so we didnt pay for much of it. They are available for $10 if you want one Sorry chad.. no asian girls, but a few tan ones.

 

 

Not sure if the Kinkos thing is a good idea. My friend tried to make one and have it printed at Kinkos and the first time the calendar wasn't printed right, the second time the calendar was stapled together before the ink dried (I guess they use inkjet printers or something), the third time finally came out right ... but it took 3 days before a good one was made.

On another note, I have some pretty good photography equipment (Canon EOS 20D, and a bunch of various Canon lenses), and I have some decent software for post-editing. Right now its too damn cold to do photo shoots, but I don't mind going to a photoshoot or two in the DC Metro area when its warmer out.

Calendar idea sounds really good ... Keep me up to date on any photo shoots or events that you want me to take pics at!

You can check my sig for some samples of pics I've taken. All of them are downsized from their original size, but I think they came out looking pretty decent. Virtually all of the pics have no post-editing taking place except for maybe some noise reduction ... so there's room for improvement

Here's one that I thought was a pretty cool looking photo:

 

Dude, somebody hit your tripod... picture is crooked.

 

that's the funniest thing i've heard all week!

i like that pic. why don't you hush and ... go add another image to your sig or something.