Re: [Chrysler300] 2010 '300 Calender' idea

[Bill Huff <czbill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a link to the 2010 calender for the MML 
list.  If anyone is interested I can put you in 
contact with the member that puts it 
together.  We are having a discussion right now 
on that board about cars pics and 
composition.  There were quite a few submissions 
and they were voted on, it looks like some cars 
that should have made the calender were left off 
solely because the picture wasn't as good as it could be.

http://www.cafepress.com/MMLCalendar.424665555

Bill Huff



At 12/28/200911:12 AM, Keith Boonstra wrote:
>
>
>Good morning all Club members,
>
>Chris brings lots of good ideas hereon producing a club calendar. Of
>course the end price can really be quite low by providing our own art.
>As a matter of fact, I belong to a local chapter of the National Impala
>Association, and just a week or so ago we came out with a 2010 calendar
>with photos of member cars featured for each of the months. I believe
>we produced 2 or 3 dozen calendars and they came to only $8.00 apiece
>even in that low quantity.
>
>But here comes the caveat. Frankly the quality of the photos used in
>our Chevy calendar runs from a non-professional halfway decent
>composition down to several handheld snapshots that would have to be
>classified as downright tacky. Poor choices of background context and
>clutter, bad camera angles and positioning of the car, hoods up and
>doors standing open, lousy lighting or sun position, distracting
>reflections and shadows, people in the shot, out of focus, and all sorts
>of other typical errors committed by the untrained (and I include yours
>truly here) can make you hope a month passes by quickly just so you can
>flip over to a better picture. This is what you can expect from most of
>us amateurs.
>
>So my bottom line speculation is that we would likely find it quite
>difficult to come up with a dozen photos we would be pleased to display
>in such a circulation to our membership. And then twelve months later
>we'll have to do it all over again. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to
>see the idea succeed, but I'm just saying it won't be easy.
>
>Our National Impala Association publication recognized the problem a
>number of months back and addressed it by printing a four page
>"Photography 101" tutorial to help improve members' critical assessment
>of their own abilities behind the camera, and hopefully give them the
>knowledge to provide the magazine with more useful photos for the
>magazine's needs. I thought the advice there was excellent. And if
>there is an interest out there in the Chrysler 300 Club, I will be
>willing to check with the Impala News editor and seek permission to
>reprint his article and its associated instructive photos for our club's
>shared benefit.
>
>Are you folks interested, and shall I ask?
>
>Thanks.
>Keith Boonstra
>Holland, MI
>
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>
>christopher beilby wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Earlier today I posted a query re what 300 or other car or panorama
> > 2010 good quality Calenders might be available.
> >
> > Since then the thought occurred to me 300 Members might have good
> > shots of the Letter car/cars they owned, that if permission was given,
> > could be used to incorporate in a panorama type setting.
> >
> > Each month of 2010, someone who is 'photo shop', whatever software
> > minded, could do the few mins (???!!) work to put a 300 into a nice
> > background, and then make it available (on Club page, or else as an
> > 'all 300Members email' with it as an attachment, to any members who
> > wanted to get it, d/load it, and get it made up as a Calender Month by
> > taking the d/load file to a photo shop/Laminator. Obviously it would
> > need to be high enough pixels/quality, to get a print of about 2 foot
> > by about 18 inches, plus have, or allow, the calender days for that
> > month be across the bottom, if it not included in d/loaded file ??!!
> >
> > If one goes to Club STORIES page, then clicks on Raffaele Corneo's
> > 300E Story, top of page 7 is a great shot at very top that shows
> > format for what each month should look like - the 300 should not be
> > more than about 30% (roughly) of the whole finished shot/photo.
> >
> > There are other good similar type Calender shots, such as Dan Reitz
> > 300 in front of large (pile) of rocks in b/g, Paul Martin has good
> > angle for a 300 of his model if it smaller against a panorama
> > b/ground, and Jack Rose's bottom shot on his 300 Story is another good
> > angle.
> >
> > And another ready to go shot like Corneo's 300E one, is Stories page
> > shot titled "A pair of 300Cs" - what a great shot that would be for
> > 300Cs Calender Month for 2010 ??!! Use it exactly as is, if approval
> > given.
> >
> > Any one want to volunteer to start a January 2010 Month - do you/we
> > start with trying to find a a great/best '55 300 shot to put against
> > sat San Fransico Bay Bridge shot (the background shot must be
> > taken/owned by Club Member to avoid copyright issues), or maybe if
> > Raffaele Corneo agrees, we could use his top shot of his page 7 for
> > January 2010 Calender Month, if the twin 300Cs shot is not available??
> > (That unless someone has a better 300E shot?! )
> >
> > Backgrounds are needed to go with cars - come on you US 300 members -
> > suggest a few, like one with distant Statue of Liberty in b/g, what
> > one for Los Angeles, any old colour shots of Chrysler Factory, Miami
> > City late 50s/60s, Mexican Border Crossing, desert giant cactus, the
> > rocks they always used in old cowboy/indian movies - come on you
> > camera 300Members, what great iconic US Panorama shots have you got
> > with nothing in foregrounds that a 300 can be put into so it only
> > takes up about 25-30% of the finished shot?? The finished Month should
> > obviously include 300Club logo, plus some ssmall print re Copyright
> > belonging to 300 Club, plus use/reproduction limited to current 300
> > Members ?
> >
> > Sorry to go on so long - but reality is no Calender done by a major
> > could ever be priced as cheap as one we can do ourselves, and who
> > wouldn't love a great shot of a different 300 for each month for all
> > the years to come - it would take years to run out of cars and
> > backgrounds if the idea catches on??
> >
> > Christopher Australia
> >
> > To: 
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> <mailto:chrysler300%40yahoogroups.com>
> > From: 
> <mailto:thelastbestgenius%40hotmail.com>thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:thelastbestgenius%40hotmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:25:11 +1000
> > Subject: [Chrysler300] 2010 (Auto/300) Calender query
> >
> > Merry Christmas to all 300 Members in the US and places other than
> > Australia - Australia seemingly had a great nice quiet Christmas here
> > yesterday, with none of the sometimes Australian Christmas summer
> > cyclones or bushfires - better than the snow/ice in parts of US & Europe?
> >
> > About Christmas time, one looks for a nice calender or two to
> > have/hang for the coming year, but here, it seems the "GFC" ( stands
> > seeemingly for Global Financial Crisis/Crap - whatever?!) has resulted
> > in a very poor smallest selection of small cheap Calenders, so I seem
> > to remember some talk on the site about Calenders available in US, and
> > thought I ask what is available over there that any 300 Members have
> > thought OK/good - need not be just 300s, or 50s cars, but would like
> > it to be about 2 feet wide, by about 18 inches, good quality paper, a
> > page for each month, with say at least each top half a nice color
> > photo/montage, with days of month across bottom section. Gotta start a
> > hoped for better coming year, with some sort of nice wall Calender?!
> >
> > Maybe reply off list if feel appropriate - we used to have a quality
> > large Annual "Australian Panorama" Calender for about $30 that had
> > great mixture of stunning outback, beach, etc shots - so if there is a
> > USA equivalent, it need not be a 300 one, which would be a great thing
> > if there was one done featuring various 300 years set against iconic
> > US backgrounds or 50s-60s City Locations?
> >
> > Christopher Australia - here in south part of Aus, now a nice geat mid
> > 70s Boxing Day morning, ideal for some midday prawns, champagne,
> > pudding with Brandy Custard
> >
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