WANTED: High-quality shots of your ride for Old Cars' 2024 Reader Rides Calendar

Our normal submission pile will be diminished to 13 finalists. Several criteria are utilised in eradicating images not used. Often these include averting duplication of marque, product, shade or period and have nothing at all to do with the high quality or composition of the visuals offered. The subsequent are “do’s and don’ts” to assistance you put together a successful submission:

We can only use substantial-quality, colour digital submissions of collector motor vehicles from every single period of manufacture by 1990. Make sure you observe that snapshots, photocopies, drawings, paintings, or any media other than substantial resolution electronic pictures can not be considered because of to high quality problems. Also, do not post a digicam shot designed from a actual physical photograph the ensuing image will be also distorted when enlarged to calendar page measurement.
In creating the selections, emphasis will be placed on autos of American manufacture, but superb examples of greatly gathered imported marques will also be considered.
Each submission should really depict a one, wholly inventory, unmodified from factory original vehicle (no photographs with many vehicles) with no obvious objects mounted on the dashboard or suspended from the rearview mirror, and should incorporate no people, pets, trophies or window stickers.
Each car or truck need to be photographed versus a nice and suitable, non-distracting track record.

Tips of what NOT to do with using shots.

Address of the Outdated Vehicles Reader Rides 2023 calendar

We question that you suggest no matter if or not you are ready to let us to make our have copies to keep on file for other than calendar use. These types of makes use of could possibly contain reserve and periodical addresses, color plates, catalogs, display posters, newsletters and marketing materials, amongst some others.

Entrepreneurs of the vehicles depicted in the calendar will be discovered, and just about every will get a totally free duplicate of the 2024 calendar. Each individual submission should be accompanied by the identify(s), address, and cellular phone selection of the proprietor(s), as well as the 12 months, marque, design and body variety of the motor vehicle depicted. To be thought of, all submissions should be received in our office by May possibly 22, 2023.

Digital Submission Necessities

The visuals should be 300 dpi (about 3 MB or greater) and saved as a jpg, tiff or raw impression. The image must be as substantial as probable — at minimum the width of the calendar (approx. 12″). The image can be 72 dpi (which is a principal default), but at that resolution it has to be really large. At the time converted to 300 dpi, a 72-dpi picture will be one particular-quarter the sizing submitted. Instance: If the image at 72 dpi is 12 inches large, and is transformed up to 300 dpi, the photo will be 3 inches huge and also little to use.

Electronic submissions can be built by means of e-mail ([email protected]) or sent on Flash generate. All digital submissions ought to have the yr/make/model and owner’s identify in its subject matter line to be considered for publication.