Picture book....

[Nicu Buculei]

Ian Weller wrote:
> 
> More importantly, we need to decide the requirements for photos in the
> book. Nicu, can you help us out on that?

The most important requirement from a technical point of view is to have 
the images big enough, so depending on the paper size we may want to 
resuest something like at least 4 or 5 Megapixels (multiply the page 
size in inches with 300 DPI and we get the minimum resolution needed in 
pixels).

We can also talk about file formats and require  either RAW or JPEG with 
a high quality, we have to accept JPEG as not all cameras are capable of 
producing RAW, but a JPEG saved with a quality factor of 85 (with 
visible JPEG artefacts) is unacceptable, so we may go with something 
like at least 98.

Not sure about post-processing, like some noise reduction, sharpening or 
color adjustments: we'll do this ourselves for the selected images or 
require the submitter to to it. I feel more inclined for doing it 
ourselves, as it will allow contributions from more people.

I don't think we can list requirements from an artistic point of view 
(quality, composition), as those are hard to define. This is where we 
will have to make the selection from the submitted pool.

And you already know about the legal requirements.

> Also I'm getting prepared on how tos on uploading photos to the wiki,
> release forms, etc. Once that's ready to roll, we'll have a process
> worked out for contributing your photos and stories to the book.


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