The competition is back again for 2008 ...
The judges are looking for something exceptional. The front cover of Flight International is prestigious podium for any budding photographer to say the least, so understandably the bar is set pretty high.
In order to give anybody entering a shove in the right direction, I've listed a few suggestions below:
The magazine has a rich heritage of striking front covers stretching right back to 1909 so for any image to be included for consideration it has to be:
It's got to be striking
Any front Flight International cover image has to do the job of helping the publication stand out among other magazines
Be unique or out of the ordinary in someway
This is a competition so there will be plenty of other punters entering their images. To stand the best chance yours should have something that makes it stick in the judges' minds
Get the composition right
Remember this is going to appear on the front cover of a magazine which has a predefined size and shape. You may have an unbelievable extra-wide panorama photo of LAX but that's not going to work for the magazine so try something else instead.
Make sure it's the right size and dpi
Simple logistics of the matter. Unless you image is minimum resolution of 300 DPI and 22cms high or wide it is not going to be of a high enough quality to run on the cover.
on November 26, 2008 6:54 PM | Reply
I am not sure if it is me or the website but, even if I click on a different front page category any submission goes into 'precision', the first category I submitted to.
A Boeing 707, intended for Majesty has now appeared in Precision, apologies.
How do I select different categories?
Many thanks
Peter Davison
on November 27, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply
Hi Peter,
When you click on "add picture" you get taken to an area called the control panel. If you are in the wrong gallery, simply click on the link on the right hand side called "select photo gallery to manage". From there you should have a list of galleries you have access to. Click on the required link and start adding,making sure that the gallery name at the top is the one you want to add to.
Regards
Stuart Clarke
on December 8, 2008 4:11 AM | Reply
I have tried for days to upload photos and I still don't see them in the galleries. I am registered as "surface to air " and I have followed all the instructions. What am I doing wrong? I was trying to get all my photos downloaded for the front page photo contest.
Looking for help.
Ajay