The November/December 2009 issue of Northern Indiana Lakes Magazine used five of my lighthouse images for a feature article on local lighthouses, and for the cover of the magazine.
These are two-page spread tearsheets from the magazine.
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Anthony C
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Bravo! Great job. Technical aside: Are you still shooting with your D40? I always like examples of how many megapixels it takes to make a beautiful, full-bleed cover like that. Contrary to the hype, it's usually not all that much.
Yup, the ole D40. I shoot in Raw, so I have a lot of control over things in the processing stage.
It's the optics and the sensor, not so much the number of pixels. You can always increase the image in Photoshop a bit, but not too much without distortion.
Thanks guys. Anthony: RAW is great when you need to adjust the exposure a bit afterward, it's like a digital negative so it's completely uncompressed and unaltered. The only drawbacks I've found are: 1. File size - they're 4x as large, so you don't get as many on a memory card, and your computer fills up quickly. 2. Viewing images on computers without RAW software. 3. A bit more work to process (but I think it's worth it)
Ken: I can understand enlarging something to poster size, but for a standard magazine cover, you really don't need much more than 6 or 8 mega pixels.
Environmental and landscape photographer Tom Gill captures the natural and man made wonders of the southeastern portion of Lake Michigan, particularly lighthouses, the Indiana Dunes National Park, barns, and small town nostalgia. Tom was a blogger on The Huffington Post, until that blogging platform closed. He has earned international recognition for his photography, with publication in the Huffington Post, Travel and Leisure, the Daily Mail, the Australian, Melbourne and Victoria Herald Sun, Adelaide Now, Civil War Times, Weatherwise Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, American Motorcyclist, and other major newspapers and magazines. The Weather Channel, CNN, ABC, NBC, WGN news affiliates, and countless online media outlets have also featured his work. Tom holds a Fine Arts Degree in design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and aside from photography, enjoys woodworking, sketching, kayaking, and hiking with his family.
To purchase prints of the photographs featured on Tom's blog, or on his flickr pages. Contact the photographer directly at
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5 comments:
Bravo! Great job. Technical aside: Are you still shooting with your D40? I always like examples of how many megapixels it takes to make a beautiful, full-bleed cover like that. Contrary to the hype, it's usually not all that much.
Thanks Anthony!
Yup, the ole D40. I shoot in Raw, so I have a lot of control over things in the processing stage.
It's the optics and the sensor, not so much the number of pixels. You can always increase the image in Photoshop a bit, but not too much without distortion.
My point exactly. Way too much hype on the number of megapixels.
Would like to discuss with you RAW workflow one of these days. I still don't shoot RAW although I have the software to deal with it.
Congrats again.
Congrats, again Tom! The megapixel thing is overhyped. Huey used to take 2-3mp files and print out 36x48 posters with no problems.
Thanks guys. Anthony: RAW is great when you need to adjust the exposure a bit afterward, it's like a digital negative so it's completely uncompressed and unaltered. The only drawbacks I've found are: 1. File size - they're 4x as large, so you don't get as many on a memory card, and your computer fills up quickly. 2. Viewing images on computers without RAW software. 3. A bit more work to process (but I think it's worth it)
Ken: I can understand enlarging something to poster size, but for a standard magazine cover, you really don't need much more than 6 or 8 mega pixels.
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