Freemason Fotos
By W Bro Terry McCallum
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About that photo ...2! This article is a follow-on from the article of the same name that appeared in our June 2015 issue. It is mainly aimed at giving you some guidance on submitting entries for the ‘Freemason Fotos’ competition. You may wish to consider the following points when submitting your competition photos. The Technical Stuff Resolution and Size Any quality publication such as the Freemason magazine has technical requirements that apply to all images. They must be of a minimum specified resolution at the size they will be printed. Images not meeting the criteria are rejected automatically and the whole process then waits for it to be fixed. Prepress departments do not have the time to ‘Photoshop’ each picture; the images submitted must meet the specification in the first place. This is why the editorial
staff at the Freemason have little choice in rejecting images they know won’t make it through the ‘pre-flight’ process. Many people have their cameras set to medium or even low resolution because they’ll get more pictures onto the memory card. But what may look fine on your screen or as a 6x4 print may fall short of meeting the magazine’s printing specifications.
How digital images are made I’m sure you’ve heard the term ‘pixels’. Back in the early days when computer technology was getting a toe-hold on
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DETAILS ON THE BACK COVER everyday life, many of the technical terms were being abbreviated to ‘street speak’ ie terms that everyday people could use without being computer engineers. A binary digit became a ‘bit’. A modulator-demodulator (used for transmission) became a ‘modem’ – and a picture cell – a single element/piece of an image – became a ‘pixel’. It’s the pixel that we photographers are interested in. Imagine a pixel as a single, tiny piece of a jigsaw puzzle. There is no image within the pixel. It is just a small piece of colour. Now imagine that all pixels for all puzzles are the same size, no
Pixellation: What happens when a small image is enlarged too much.
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September 2020
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