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I just LOVE this story Bob Dimmitt<\/a> just sent me. This is real world and how as a photographer (and great MLP<\/a>) you pay the bills and grow clients. Great job Bob … now in his words …<\/font><\/p>\n Anyway, From “Click to Click to Cover”might be the apt description of my second cover.<\/p>\n Just prior to Click I had taken a photograph at Hobby airport as I was leaving from a management meeting-three tower cranes (fixed cranes in the air, used more in Europe and just gaining acceptance in the US) building Southwest\u2019s new terminal next to the runways. I would have expected conventional cranes that could be lowered when not in use given the runways. Anyway, I was talking to Beth, about to board, and saw this image across the terminal with light hitting the cranes. Ran over with the Df and 18-35 and took a few, then had to board. Not a lot of time but I got an image.<\/p>\n The result was #1 attached. Big problem with reflection (my polarizer was in checked baggage \u2013 for the last time) and I had tried to remove it without much luck in Photoshop.<\/p>\n So then I spent the weekend in NYC at Click and I realized that a number of things you mentioned on Sunday either I hadn\u2019t tried or hadn\u2019t been aware of. So Monday I went back to the image and applied what I had learned. Mon. afternoon I submitted it to my editor friend (MLP lesson applied – make friends with editors) at American Crane and Transport. (Image #2)<\/p>\n She emailed my about \u00bd hour later, saying \u201chow did you know they were doing a \u201cTower Crane\u201d issue in August, we will definitely use it and by chance did I have a vertical? Of course I didn\u2019t (another lesson). But I cropped it down to two cranes and the jet, rather than say no. Then I found I was short about 1 \u00bd inches of sky to fit their cover dimensions \u2013 IF she was thinking cover. So I used content aware fill and added more sky so the dimensions equaled their cover dimensions. I then sent it (Image 3) back to her with full disclosure that the top part of the image was photoshopped and as I had guessed, since their masthead goes across the top \u00bc of the image she wasn\u2019t concerned. She then emailed me back the next day and said I was in contention for the Aug. cover. So Click to Click ends Sunday and I am in the running for a cover 3 days later.<\/p>\n Last Friday, I got another email from her with a mockup of the cover using that image. The attached #4 is their two mockups of the cover and they will probably go with the first according to her. The magazine isn’t published yet so she sent these to me in confidence.<\/p>\n So, it wasn\u2019t a perfect image. Shot from inside a terminal, limited flexibility in lining everything up, etc. But I knew it was a different approach to using cranes and would be interesting to crane people, knew someplace that would use it, so it was worth trying to salvage and I used a lot of what we had discussed Sun to get there.<\/p>\n So that was pretty cool. And its my first plane cover too\u2026\u2026…<\/em><\/p>\n What you see above is the final cover now in folks hands. Pretty darn cool!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just LOVE this story Bob Dimmitt just sent me. This is real world and how as a photographer (and great MLP) you pay the bills and grow clients. 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