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PUBLISHED:
Wednesday March 29 |
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FireNews.net Special Series |
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Technical Stuff
Fortunately, with today's digital media, taking
excellent apparatus photographs are not difficult nor expensive.
 Here's
the good news: you don't need a fancy camera. Almost any digital
camera will work just fine. Leave the 16 mega-pixel cameras to the
pros. All images that you see on the web are presented at just 72
dpi (dots-per-inch). This resolution is easily achieved with the
most basic camera.
Most of the apparatus shots run on FireNews are presented at 450
pixels wide. Occasionally, if we have really good shot, we'll run
an enlargement around 700 pixels wide. Click
here for a sample.
 In
addition to the typical "3/4" shot that we require, we also like
to run other views of the rigs, so feel free to send those too.
Click
here for an example.
If your camera has a manual setting, select one notch above the
"web" setting.
We do not accept images from a camera phone.
Do not use a flash of any kind.
If you are still loyal to film cameras, please scan your prints at
at least 150 dpi, and submit as a jpg or tiff. Do not convert any
images to gifs.
When using a SLR camera, the best lense to use is a 50mm. This
approximates what the human eye normally sees without distortion.
Any wide angle lense (28mm for example) will lead to a "fish-eye"
effect. Zoom lenses tend to flatten out the image perspective.
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- Middle and bottom photos: Lee
Wilson, CFP-702
- FireNews.net Staff
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