OK... I will ask: What about 2012 6GC.NET calendar? Options

[czwalga]

Ricochet asks me to send you pics. How big do you need? Most of the pics I have are on the internet, taken by others arent super hi-res. Even my own pics I can't access as i'm in south korea for a while.

[ricochet1490]

To be specific, I know you are looking for cotm winners. But if this is a 6gc.net calendar, shouldn't it be made of the coolest cars we have, even if they haven't won cotm? I think a rally celi like his, breathing the true blood of these things, should be eligible. How awesome would it be to have visible evidence of the awd in full action on dirt? My .02

[Timmyface]

I'm sure malpasso is all for it, but he is after high res photos for a reason. So there's not a single blurry or out of place looking photo. I'm sure if czwalga had a high res looking photo it'd get used.

Most of the photos being used are/looks like professional photography.
I doubt malpasso would want to throw in a low res, grainy dirt picture in the mix, unless it was a professional looking photo.

But, the way it seems to be going, any photos are of help.

[malpaso]

Situation is like this. First idea was to make calendar only with pictures from COTM winners. Unfortunately:

- Not even half of COTM winers send me picture of the car so far
- Not all COTM winning picture are made in high resolution...

So I have looked at old calendars I have and realized QUALITY OF PICTURE MATTERS! So I really need to send to printer company 12 months + cover sheet at 3508x2480 pixels. Not less. No blurry pictures. No pixelate pictures.

From now I do not care if picture I receive is COTM winner or not. I take ANY good looking pictures in maximum resolution as possible. It is not important if there is one 3508x2480 picture or 4x 1600x1200 once. Together it must be 3508x2480. That is why I prefer to receive more pictures and taken from more angles to not make it boring. Of course if there is more than 12+1 interested priority has COTM winner. That is all.

EDIT: to let you understand better... Here is one example. I have received pictures from salv as COTM winner. He has send three pictures at resolution 1024x678... so his page on calendar would look like this:



Or when printed with this resolution will do this:



I'm really glad for his response but... this material is for printing useless .

This post has been edited by malpaso: Oct 18, 2011 - 7:19 AM

[malpaso]

Today I got really amazing material for the calendar from Rob_A. Thank you so much for another page for calendar. Here enjoy two options:

[Rob_A]

Nice work, prefer the first one with the multiple shots

[ricochet1490]

Situation is like this. First idea was to make calendar only with pictures from COTM winners. Unfortunately:

- Not all COTM winning picture are made in high resolution...





I'm really glad for his response but... this material is for printing useless .

I feel like the picture wont actually look THAT bad. It's very very zoomed in here. We don't need that kind of close up do we? with that image being the entire car, I don't think it would be THAT bad.

To me, if it means having a calendar with some great cars means that a few months have to suffer in the quality, then so be it. But his other pictures just as you showed them there didn't look terrible as they sat on my screen. and as i walk past this every day, I'm not going to stop and think, wow, what a semi-grainy pic that is on my wall that I can't even tell the difference unless I stop and stare... ya know?
just my .02

especially if we do the multiple shot look - the resolution doesn't need to be as high for that... (3 on the side, one in the middle)

This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Oct 21, 2011 - 1:20 PM

[malpaso]

I feel like the picture wont actually look THAT bad. It's very very zoomed in here. We don't need that kind of close up do we? with that image being the entire car, I don't think it would be THAT bad.

To me, if it means having a calendar with some great cars means that a few months have to suffer in the quality, then so be it. But his other pictures just as you showed them there didn't look terrible as they sat on my screen. and as i walk past this every day, I'm not going to stop and think, wow, what a semi-grainy pic that is on my wall that I can't even tell the difference unless I stop and stare... ya know?
just my .02

especially if we do the multiple shot look - the resolution doesn't need to be as high for that... (3 on the side, one in the middle)

When you try to print picture 1024x768 at A4 size paper you exactly see this. It is because A4 size for printing is 3508 x 2480 (so like 3.5x more). If you have Calendar 2008 see August and you find out what I'm talking about.

[ricochet1490]

i henceforth trust your judgement lol

[malpaso]

thanks to Uprutus there is another possible page of calendar...

[Tigawoods]

working on getting a few of my images to look similar, then ill submit

[SwissFerdi]

Martin, I don't have a sufficient camera on hand, otherwise I would attempt to take some presentable pictures.

[Urputus]

Martin, that looks great! Thanks!
I can imagine this calendar on a wall in my room

[malpaso]

working on getting a few of my images to look similar, then ill submit

Please find the time to do this as soon as possible. I need to close the list by the end of this week to show final calendar and start collecting payments on Monday...

anyway... here are another four possible pages:









This post has been edited by malpaso: Oct 25, 2011 - 4:56 AM

[malpaso]

The news! As you see above things moved forward and situation is more optimistic now . Here is the list of pages for now:

Cover: probably mix of COTM pictures or something... or mix of pictures from inside. Could be anything.
January: Lil-Joe101 - first batch of pictures received and waiting for another so what you see above is not probably finished page.
February: BASSI
March: Rusty
April: Driveby
May: TRDGT4
June: Urputus
July: Rob_A
August: Tigerwoods - I really hope you handle to prepare pictures. Picture from you simply must be there.
September: Timmyface
October: Malpaso
November: ????
December: ????

I still hope for response from some people so believe we fill those two missing months. I have asked at least four people with valuable pictures and photography skills so... we are close to the successful end!

Backup plan is fill those two months and cover with any of available picture. Or I can use some picture I made during PECM or GT-Four driver's Club meeting but I really prefer everyone in there agree to be in calendar. Here is an example:







Or this one... only disadvantage is my car is messing up there (because I made it as "Father & Son family picture" ).



This post has been edited by malpaso: Oct 25, 2011 - 7:25 AM

[czwalga]

If you can wait a few days I can get you high-res pics.

[Timmyface]

It is a shame that some of the good Cotm photos aren't high res or giving a reply.
I'm liking the one of Marco's as a backup. And the layout of the 'calendar' one looks sweet. Liljoes is a bit out of place as a large interior imo.

I'm sure you'll pull this off. Pm 808 for some pics

[malpaso]

It is a shame that some of the good Cotm photos aren't high res or giving a reply.
I'm liking the one of Marco's as a backup. And the layout of the 'calendar' one looks sweet. Liljoes is a bit out of place as a large interior imo.

I'm sure you'll pull this off. Pm 808 for some pics

- That's true... I really wanted to see in calendar this car:



...and this one:



Both simply MUST exist in high resolution because picture like this you just can not make by cell phone . Unfortunately I have not received anything from them so far.

- Good thing about Marco is he is in fact COTM winner so even if his picture is not in high resolution I can use my pieces .

- Lil-Joe101 has good pictures and want them to send me but so far his mail deny to cooperate . So I still believe I receive better material from him.

- I do not want to disappoint anyone deny his pictures so from now I do not ask anyone for any picture. Reason is I did that last two weeks and now will only wait till Sunday for results. Than we will see where we are...

[Lil-Joe101]

Im trying Martin, dont lose faith brother, lol

[Timmyface]

Lil Joe, try sending multiple smaller emails to Martin.
When I reached over 15mb I think it was, it wouldn't send.

So send a few emails with 1 or 2 images, and see if that helps.

And yeah, I wanted to see Nammers, Ricos etc.