Need some input for making an old Winchester Calendar

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Gents, I working on putting together a Winchester levergun calendar with photos of old Winchesters for the upcoming year. I'm getting it done by a web company on the internet and have to work within the templates they offer. One has huge pictures, 11" high x 17" wide and the other has the more standard 8 & 1/2" high x 11" wide. I was thinking of putting a bit of information on each Winchester in each photo as shown in the example below. I can't put it at the bottom, because the wire coil cuts too far into the bottom of the photo. I can't put it too close to the top, either, because the hole for hanging is there.

Questions for those who might want to order the calendar:

1. Would you rather just have the photo with no info at all, or have the insert with a bit of info (model, year made, caliber, etc.)?

2. I'm making the 8&1/2" x 11 calendar for sure, but would anyone be interested in the huge one? (cost is roughly $15 for the little one and $19 for the big one, plus shipping .... I don't set the costs, the interenet service does)? My only concern with the huge one is that they recommend photos with 200 DPI, but they say 150 DPI will do. My photos are 150 to 180 dpi, so I don't know what the photos will look like. They will certainly look good on the normal size calendar.

Shown below is the finished calendar cover and a sample page with the info inserted into the photo, so you can see whether you like info or no info.
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Just the rifle's in my opinion. If you wanted to include info could you not do it at the top of the actual calander page in smaller print. I have seen that done with car calanders and others as well.
 
Photo of the rifle up top, a discription of the model, years of production and cartridges in the lower corner in the spot where for example, if your looking at September 30th on the Calander ends on Tuesday, there are open spots for Wednesday October the first, Turs, Fri etc. Just mt opinion. Great idea by the way. :)
 
Jayph said:
Just the rifle's in my opinion. If you wanted to include info could you not do it at the top of the actual calander page in smaller print. I have seen that done with car calanders and others as well.
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I think this is a great idea Kurt. Let me know when I can order one. I want a limited edition 1 of 100;)
 
i definitely will want a couple calendars, with pics of the '54 especially. I did find a '47 30-30 carbine for myself. My year of birth ....i also have a '49 32Sp. and '49 25-35 carbine.
 
I think some small print details would be nice too. I like to know what exactly I'm looking at.

Definetly sign me up for one. Do you have submissions for all 12 months yet? Let me know if anything in my lil collection would fill a void.

Cheers,
Matt
 
Matt, next time you're out here, I'd like to photograph all your Winchesters for a future calendar. You've got some beauties.

Here's the final layout of the photo and caption. The extra space under the caption is for the wire coil binding.

Thanks again for your input.
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I think you should stay with 8½ x 11, to keep the definition up.
I did all the pictures for my book, about fifty, and sent them to the publisher on a disk. The publisher, Hanckock House Publishing of Surrey, BC, insisted on 300 dpi and they had to be in tiff format. In my case, it was the pictures that were old, average age about 50 years, black and white and colour, so I had to scan them on to the computer.
I will even stick my neck out here and suggest something that may be too late for you to do. If you have not already sent in the pictures, I would beg, borrow or steal a camera that you could use that would give you higher dpi.
I have had exprience with other picture publishers and they all insist on 300 dpi for publishing.
I wouold also be very much in favour of you inserting the basic information about each rifle on the page.
Edited to say; I think it is a great idea and I certainly wish you well on it.
 
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That is good info. It is too late for me to anything about increasing my DPI for these photos, but I'd like to get a more expensive camera for my next set of photos. The photos here, when compressed to 8 1/2 x 11 are giving me around 245 dpi. When I print them off on a photo printer, they are razor sharp even upon very close examination, but I don't know what these internet guys will make them look like. I hoping for the best. I'll order a calendar first to see what it looks like.
 
Count me in for a calender with little description.

Can you make mine with waterproof pages?
If the rest of the pics are like that 86 T/D I'll be drooling all over it :redface:
 
Yes, I believe the difference between 245 and 300 will be indistinguishable, but when a publisher is paying the shot, they become fussy.
 
I think its a great idea and I would like to be kept in the loop as to when / where I can order one.
 
Fellows, I will post the link to order one when the calendar is ready. I want to order a finished one first, to see if the calendar is up to snuff. If it looks acceptable, then I'll post a link, otherwise, I'll post the bad news. All this will probably take us to the end of the month.
 
It is pretty common practice in digital imaging to upsize the images to 300 ppi at your print size. Using photoshop, use bicubic smoother when upsizing a image, add some sharpness if needed after.

245-300 ppi will be fine as its a very small change

(note I say PIXELS per inch) dpi is technically not the correct term - it is related to the printing process.

For the future - better to scan your films or digital capture at higher resolution than you will need.
 
38-55, most of your pictures are excellent in showing a very minimum of reflection.
For example, the /86 with the coffee pot. I am wondering how you arranged the light for this picture.
If you don't want to post it here, please send me a PM.
I am trying to get a close up of just a revolver, a nice, shiny blue one, but just can not overcome the glare on it.

Cheers, Bruce
 
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