Photo Submission to Mags
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Lol at the last Will, I’m in the same boat. Hence why I’ll never write an article 🙂
If somone who’s starting out, or is thinking about starting out later this year, learns anything either from Phils commentary as an editor, from yours or Zachs as people who have travelled down the road or from my own difficulties navigating some of the potential landmines then it’s served its purpose.
One thing I’ve learned and while *my* experience is limited, it’s that each magazine is subtly different. Some want low res images in large quantities to quickly preview and weed through. Images they keep on file and decide to use at some later unspecified date, they’ll request full res originals once they decide to use them.
Landmine. Dont send anything that isnt printable at atleast .5 page, if not full.
Some want full res’s.
The danger here to me isn’t so much a RAW vs jpeg vs TIFF arguement. Any of those, can be edited beyond what we as originators do and probably rightfully so. An AD will want the ability to crop to fit space, remove something, whatever, or even colour correct . If I send someone a TIFF, I may as well save myself the processing time and send the RAW 🙂Phil sumed it up best I think. The moment you send anyone a full res image (regardless of format) thats the moment you surrender control.
Again every publication is different. Was I surprised to discover images I sold in April and May werent going to be run until the spring, early summer of 2009? Not really, it makes alot of sense. I cant divulge information but suffice to say, the article is written it’s ready to go. But due to scheduling, the article isnt running until then.
I would imagine every magazine out there is scheduling their fall winter articles now.
Some Magazines need more images than others, simply because they go to print every month, versus every quarter.
But even at that high turn over rate.
12 issues
5 articles per issue
4 to 6 images per article.Thats only about 300 images per year. Keep in mind the lions shares of published photos are those that are done by the field editors and handed in with their articles. And each and every AD will have deadlines to meet. Theres something to be said for having high res images on hand.
The point Im making is just reinforcing the point that once an image is in their database it could be quite some time before its selected and used.
I could send an editor a million dollar shot of a Musky slamming a duckling or Tailwalking across the water at the end of a line. Until they have article thats relative, its not going to be run, no matter how good it is. How long might they keep it in the “library”?
Dunno.
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I sent an editor some wild turkey shots. Got great feedback on them.
Problem, they were taken in the winter with snow on the ground.
Not useable in any “hunting” articel as Turkey Season is May. They want green in the background not snow. They would do nicely in a Pre season scouting article though…best case they get used next January, February…Providing the Editor decides to run a Turkey Scouting article, the AD whom I deal with has little say over that. If they are considering a Turkey pre season scouting article. Dollars to donuts the layout is being done sometime between now and Sept.Fun stuff this busniess
🙂John,
We editors are terrible correspondents, for the most part. Your best bet is to follow up after a few weeks. Then follow up again. Folks are always apologizing for “bugging” me, but it really helps to be reminded of what’s been sent to me. I make American Angler pretty much by myself, and I don’t have a secretary. That means it’s not unusual for stuff to fall through the cracks. I don’t want to leave anyone hanging, so I’m appreciative when folks write or call to remind me to address their submissions.
Phil
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