Porsche Post Cover Pictures

[Guest]

Hi all

I have received an email from the editor ref cover pictures for PP. See below. Can anyone out there help? If so please send your images to me c/o club office.

The editor says:
I am acutely aware of the lack of your model(s) being featured on the cover of PP recently. This is not a deliberate policy, simply a lack of suitable images. Hence this plea.

Could you try and encourage your members to think of potential cover pics when they are out with their cars over the summer. There are some technical requirements.

Ideally the pic should be a transparency taken preferably on Fuji Velvia or Provia, Kodachrome 64, or Ektachrome Extra Colour, in that order.

The format has to be suitable for use in portrait orientation - cropping is a possibility.

We can scan from a negative - if it is an image shot on decent print film, alternatively a really sharp print in at least 10" x8" size may be suitable.

Digital images would have to have a file size of at least 1MB as a JPEG I think, we would have to accept the need for experimentation here.

My other request would be for cars in colours other than red, black, white or silver. We have not had a blue car for a while.

I do hope you will be able to help build up our resources in this area. I will try to take a selection myself at Eynsham, but it will be difficult to avoid a sameness to the background!

Martyn Cockram

 

[John Sims]

cars in colours other than red, black, white or silver

So what we are saying then is:-

PP want pictures of 944s, but in colours not indicative of 944s by discounting all of the popular choices. Hasn' t Fen got the only blue 944 in the country?

Additionaly, you either load your camera with slide film - well we are all taking slides these days aren' t we?- or they might accept a monster JPEG file if your camera has sufficient resolution to create one that size.

Only kidding. I think it is great they are looking for a 944 on the cover. Shame mine is black or I' d be snapping away like a nut case.

 

[Mark_Bennett]

colours not indicative of 944s by discounting all of the popular choices

I used to have a beautiful Crystal Green Metallic 944.

Then a Stone Grey Metallic 944S.

There are other colours...

 

[Fen]

Hasn' t Fen got the only blue 944 in the country?

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I' ve got the only 2 blue 944' s in the country. Seriously though, Baltic was a popular colour. My cars would look too silver in the piccies anyhow I' d guess.

Maybe I can take the cabrio onto Dartmoor and get something committed to memory card to see how it looks (a mate has a fancy Canon digital SLR).

 

[Guest]

I have a Copenhagen Blue 944 and so does a guy near me.

Infortunatly still waiting for the trim round the window from Porsche Germany so it might not make a great picture.

Marcus

 

[Guest]

I havent got a camera that good either which is another down point, but will be attending the Cotswold Rally in it next week so will be at club offices if they have a camera man there

 

[Diver944]

Our Turbo is Baltic Blue and has already been in PP twice (it' s in this month in the trackday section [] ), but it still needs one more plug to catch up with our Black S2 which has been in there 3 times in the last 5 years []

A cover shot would be a nice way to catch up, I' ll start warming up the digicam and looking for locations now before all those bright red cars get in the way [][][]

 

[Robbiemeister]

ORIGINAL: John Sims

cars in colours other than red, black, white or silver

Shame mine is black or I' d be snapping away like a nut case.

John don' t take that no black stuff lying down, it' s a challenge to produce a stunning picture of a black car that simply has to be published.

And remember when I was looking for my car I said I wasn' t interested in a black car!

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[John Sims]

it' s a challenge to produce a stunning picture of a black car that simply has to be published.

What about a stunning picture of two black cars? That way I could put yours in front of mine to hide all the rough bits.

Still, I' m glad to see the 944 getting pushed to the front of PP, didn' t the The Director of Registers recently note that there were more 944' s registered in PCGB then any other type []