Starting in 2007, the making of a unique Honda CT Calendar was offered, provided that we would receive enough high resolution digital photos to create at least one calendar. We received enough photos to make three different and unique calendars for the 2008 year, and enough for three unique and different calendars for 2009.

 

Now we're interested in having you submit some high resolution digital photos for the 2010 Honda CT Calendar.

 

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There are several factors that make high quality digital photos.

 

We want photos that have… at least 200 pixels per inch AND/OR are bigger than 17 inches in the horizontal direction. These photos usually have file sizes of 1 megabyte or larger (often 2-3 megabytes). The bigger the better. Please do not edit the photos in any way. Keep your photos "clean" by not having the date (or anything else) from the camera show up in the picture. Digital photo formats that are acceptable are either JPEGs (prefered) or TIFFs. If you do digital drawings or cartoons, they can also be submitted.

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We'd like to level the playing field for photo submissions and say that we want only photos of the following…

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Photo Guidelines

Photos that are well illuminated, "all over", are best (no bright areas and dark shade areas in the same photo, otherwise known as "high contrast").

Scenic locations are great, but a nice clean background is also OK. Garage doors as a background would be OK, an "evenly" illuminated hedge of bushes behind the bike is OK, cluttered items in the background are BAD! (very distracting). We want your CT to "pop out" of the photo.

No close up views of people in the photo (to avoid whining about getting your face in the calendar), people at a distance when you can't really tell who they are, is OK.

Action shots are OK, just make sure the rider is shown in a safe manner… helmet, gloves, long pants, boots (like in a Honda advertisement).

Making your photo look like a "Honda trail bike outdoor advertisement" is OK (just no faces).

Nothing that would look like advertising in your photos.

 

Look over the calendar photos from previous years and see what you thought looked good!

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General Composition Guidelines

Photos from the side of your bike are great, it shows a lot of your bike (either side is OK).

 

A slight angle to your bike is also OK.

 

Do not get the bike too close to the edges of your photo (allow some `breathing room').

Having more `breathing room' in front of your bike gives the impression of being able to move forward.

 

Have the sun over one of your shoulders (nice "even" illumination on your bike), never in front of you (unless you are taking a great sunrise or sunset in the background and you will silhouette your CT).

Don't show your shadow in the photo (look for it, avoid it, if possible).

If you want to "stage" your bike, ready for a camping trip, all loaded up, that would be interesting.

If you have some unique additions to your bike, that would be great to show them.

Dirty bikes are OK, a couple of super clean garage queens would be good, as well.

Maybe someone will do a "close-up" of something neat on their CT.

If you come up with some unique idea for a CT photo, go ahead and take it, then send it to me.

 

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We'd like to receive your high resolution photos at any time, all year long.

 

So, either...

 

1) Set your digital camera to it's highest resolution setting and take some new photos,

 

or

 

2) Look through your photo files and see if you have any photos that are high resolution (file size 1 megabyte or larger, often 2-3 megabytes).

 

Send your high resolution CT calendar photos to CT90-CT110@COX.NET as an "attachment" to your email. You may need to send multiple emails if you want to send multiple high resolution digital photos. Send as many photos as you want, there is no maximum limit of photos for any individual.

The final selection of photos that will be included, their editing (croping, sizing, and color balance) and the assembly of the photos into the calendars will be in early December, so you can purchase a calendar before Christmas.

 

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The CT calendars are purchased at the Web Store from early December through the end of January.

 

Because the calendars contain photos from various people, these are the only items in the Web Store that have NO markup, so the sale of the calendars does not support the cost of operating this Web Site.

 

Other items that have image designs by the owner of this Web Site do have a modest markup in price and do support the cost of this Web Site.