Picture worthy of a calendar
Deadline changed to October 1, 2010READ THESE RULES BEFORE POSTING
Let’s start early this year and start collecting pictures worthy of a calendar for the 2011 Calendar.
Start by reading the photo taking instructions at
Tips for taking better pictures
(Changes in bold italic)
You may post only one picture per cannon and it must be your cannon. Sponsors may submit a picture of a cannon they built. If you later take a better picture and want to submit it you must first delete your original post and resubmit a new post. If you submit two pictures of the same cannon, both posts will be deleted.
Only one picture per post allowed. This makes it easier for me to capture the pictures for the poll and match them up to the original post later. If you post more than one picture per post I will delete your post. You are free to repost one picture per post.
Every picture must have cannon as subject matter. People and Animals are allowed, but the cannon must be the subject matter.
You may have more than one cannon in the picture, but one of them must be your cannon. This calendar is of the member’s cannons and not of cannons.
Cannons can be static or in action.
Post picture and title only, no narrative, no replies and no comments in this topic. The title will appear with the picture on the calendar if the picture is one of the top 12 selected. It is suggested the title describe your cannon and who you are. I'll post a couple of examples! Remember you have to post text as well as a link to your photo in the text box. Narrative may be edited; replies and comments will be deleted.These must be new pictures and not entered in any previous cannon calendar post. Such pictures when spotted will be deleted.
Pictures must be posted in the usual format 576 pix wide at 72 ppi. Save your picture on your computer at a minimum of 1078 x 768 pix or larger. Size---better full size as it comes out of the camera. Then if your picture is selected I will have you send me your high resolution picture for posting in the calendar.
Photos must be posted from a photo hosting sight or webpage and not direct uploaded from your hard drive as a thumb nail. Since we all can use the free hosting site at
https://www.gboreloaded.com/mhp/ for posting and linking our pictures, there is no reason to direct upload. It takes no longer to upload your picture via dial-up to a photo hosting site than it does to direct up load on dial-up. This has been a problem in past years setting up the poll and collecting pictures. Direct uploaded posts will be deleted. You are free to repost from a photo host site.
Any post not complying with these rules may be edited or deleted.
If you have what you think is a good picture but don't know how to edit it, PM me. Ask for help. I will help you.
Try to work something in to show the scale of you cannon. We use the Powder can a lot for perspective but we don't want this calendar to be an advertisement for GOEX. We want to show off our guns. So unless you can work the powder can in as an unobtrusive part of the background leave it out.
October 1 I will lock the Pictures worthy of a calendar 2011 post. So get your pictures posted early. I will open a post with a poll and we will select the pictures to be used on the Calendar. Once the poll closes I will contact the poll winners and have them send me there full size picture for the calendar. Once I have the all the pictures I will forward them to Matt and he will make up the calendar and it become available on the GBO E-store.
The top 12 vote getters will appear as the monthly pictures. Pictures may not necessarily be posted in order of vote total. Monthly themes will be considered. All the other pictures submitted will appear on the cover as a collage.The proceeds from the sales of the calendar go to support this board. GBO provides a place to hang out; we need to help pay the bills, so buy a calendar.
