XJ calendar picture ideas

Here. I'll start... I put two pics up in my gallery.

RickCoMatic the Buddha

 

I would park my bike at the college I attend and try to get pictures with pretty girls in it, but I would probably get arrested or beat up by an angry boy friend. I'll see what I can do, but my bike is in the process of getting cleaned up, not as pretty as she will be, only been on the road for a few months and I am a college student...

Edit: Wow, I am in a Sticky now.... Have had the camera charging all day, see if I can get some decent pictures at the beach tomorrow!

 

i'll take some pics of my '85 XJ700 Maxim here in Indiana but once i do who do i send them too for review for the calendar?

 

For now, you might want to consider what I did; stick them in your gallery and link to them.

As for the pic, I vote for having it stick out of a snowbank... <snort><chuckle><guffaw>

Okay, I'm just being silly. How about a Thanksgiving theme for your pic?

 

Anyone that is interested, I have made up a place for all of you to host your Calendar submissions from.

I have extra space on my server that I'm not using, and I never touch my alloted bandwidth, so I'm happy to donate.

Submit your pictures here: ( select the "Submit Pictures Here" album )
http://www.elitepcrepair.com/xjc/upload.php

View the approved gallery here ( Make comments too! ):
http://www.elitepcrepair.com/xjc/thumbnails.php?album=3

We can even vote on the pictures to pick the winners!

Note: There is a Filesize maximum of 2MB, with no max quota. So you can still keep your pics at a high resolution, without totally eating up my server.
(This is opposed to XJBikes 256Kb max, with a 5Mb per-user quota. )

 

I posted some, probably not calendar material but someone’s got to post.

 

I moved them over to the approved section. I like that one in front of your garage, and the down river one.

 

I threw up 3 pics, I took a flukey pic of my front end while I was riding which looks pretty cool I think

I have them in his res too btw

 

I like that fork and moon shot. You took that while in motion or during a ride?

 

well i tried to upload a pic but it says the file is to big and i have no idea how to resize it so if anyone knows please let me know.

 

How to resize pictures - GIMP

How to resize pictures – Photoshop

Alternately, in Windows XP, you can right click on the file, click edit. This will open the image in MsPaint, then click image --> stretch/skew. Enter a percentage ( I.E. 90%) into both horizontal and vertical, then save it as a different filename ( I.E. Pic_small.jpg ). You can keep decreasing the percentage until you get it under 2MB.

 

thanx i followed the instructions and got it resized. I'm gonna take a thanksgiving themed picture of it later today dressed up as a turkey with the tail feathers attached to the back of the seat. I know i;m really bored today.

 

www.irfanview.com
free, small, fast and easy crop and resize. I've been using itin since 1998.

left click and drag to select what you wish to crop to, then ctrl + y
to rezise, ctrl + r, then make a selection and hit enter. If you dont like it, dont save it. reopen the same image.
to save, hit s
I always pre-pend my croped or resized.
original = photo.jpg
cropped = c-photo.jog
resized = r-photo.jpg
both = c-r-photo.jpg

Yesterday I took 30 pictures of various items for work, and cropped/resized/both in 10 minutes and then emailed them off to thier respective owners shortly after that.

gimp and photoshop are both extra large for a small job. They do some great things that irfanview wont.
irfanview does some suprising things. even my mom can use it! niether mom or dad can use gimp (free) and they dont have photoshop to try ($$$)

 

I know Ease needs to get his bike in there, I love that thing!

 

Yeah I took it in motion at about 60kms I just held the camera down as low as I could and snapped off a few shots, that was the best one

 

My thought in having a separate gallery was so high-resolution pictures could be posted without quotas or limits. I figured since I had the extra room and bandwidth, why not?

Plus, I figure most of those that are posting their pics already have a small one in their coppermine gallery.

I was just trying to keep some of the burden off your wallet Sno.

 

THIS.

If that fork and moon one doesn't get put on the calendar, I quit.

I'll see if I can come up with something -- I think I mentioned what kind of shot I'm looking for, but it would be impossible for me to do unless I composited two images. Anybody got some mad Photoshop skillz?

 

Submit the two images and I'll see what I can do.

 

What's the deadline for submitting pics, I would love to take a few of my 750 on base here, would be a good one for July

 

Okay, I just uploaded five pics for the first half of the shot I want. Now to get the second half. Should be able to do that within a day or two.

 

I just submitted a couple of pics if that's ok.

 

I don't know much about this but is this going to be a printed or printable calendar?

 

Thats sorta the idea. I think if we get 12 or more good pictures, Snosheriff is going to put them into a calendar, purchasable from CafePress.com, where the site store is located ( http://xjbikes.com/Content/pid=3.html )

See this post from Sno ( http://xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=58214.html#58214 )

 

Thanks!

Hey, I'd LOVE to get my bike involved.

What kind of picture would you want? It's a perfect fall day today so I'd be glad to head out and snap a couple digital shots - but I don't have access to a super camera - just my top-of-the-line 3 years ago digital. :?

Maybe I'll head up to some historic places (Signal Hill St John's, Cape Spear), or just a coffee shop DT today and snap a couple...
If anyone on here from NL wants to get on the go for a couple pics give me a shout. Good day for a ride.

 

i just downloaded like 8 pictures of my bike that may go with the fall setting so if they are not what your looking for just delete them.

 

Probably better than mine, which is a whopping 1.3 megapixel. That was the question I was going to ask Sno; how high-res should these pictures be? What's the maximum, and what's the minimum? Should we be in the shot with the bikes? Stick some user pics in the calendar somewhere?

Lastly, as Gremlin and I were discussing in PM, I don't think the idea I had for my picture is going to pan out. I did come up with a couple of fallback ideas, though, so all is not lost.

One rat bike, coming up...

 

So does anyone know when this calendar is supposed to be made and when it is are the people who have a bike in it going to get a free calendar?

 

I'd say we need to get enough good unique pictures to make one first.

And probably no on the free calendars. No one is actually making a run of calendars. They will be made available for purchase on the CafePress.com XJ site ( http://xjbikes.com/Content/pid=3.html )

 

I'll have a couple next nice day.

Found a cool spot with a mural hidden downtown that I plan on raiding.

 

I'll get my bike out when I am home next week provided the weather is ok, not that I am a fair weather rider but I don't want to put it way for the winter dirty. I do still need to adjust the carbs. and make brackets for the front turn signals..... I hope I can find a place that will inspect a motorcycle in the end of November.

 

Got mine posted, I took a couple of them next the 3rd ID Warrior Walk, this memorial is for all the fallen Marne Soldiers lost, the other ones are by the Ft Stewart Museum.

 

ok i went to the link to submit some pics but not sure once i'm there how to do it so if you could please let me know how to submit my pics once there.

 

For the people who win, we should set up a Grand Prize, First, ect.

Grand Prize: 2 Valve Cover Bolts
First Prize: 1 Valve Cover Bolt
Second Prize: Oil Filter Housing Gasket
Third Prize: Honerable Mention

 

When is the dealine for the pictures going to be? As my bike stands now it will fit into a "fugly" catagory... New paint should be done by mid December, then she will fit it to the "NICE PAINT JOB!" Catagory...

 

Go for it. I'm going for the Rat Bike look myself.

 

Okay... I've made a right ass of myself. How, you ask?

I uploaded a buttload of pics today. Come see the rat bike and the fish taco-eating rat that rides it!

I've upped my pics, now up yours!

/Ummm, waitaminute...

 

I'm trying to find a better back ground for my bike pics if I do is it ok if I re-submit my pics for the calendar? That is if I get them in before the deadline?

 

I don't think that would be an issue... I say upload to your heart's content.

 

OK just submited two more pics with better back ground. Hope you like.

 

Here's another idea; I just put a larger version in the gallery.

 

Votes made.

Just so everyone knows (anyone who cares anyway, lol) I really wanted to be a part of this - but I only had Low res pics of the bike that I didn't think would do the calendar justice.

I was considering these:





But after viewing the pics I kinda regret it... Seems mine were about on par with some of the good ones...

Oh well.
Late entry :?:


Personally I really love the first one... but I took it with my camera phone and didn't think the resolution was that good... 3rd one has the best res but would need to be chopped to get rid of the timestamp and the R6 wheel.



BTW, You have the makings of a good calendar allready, I'll be buying one regardless (unles someone wants to join me in a boycot to break the rules and allow my late entry - hahaha).

 

so since the voting ends tomorrow is it going to be the top 12 rated pics make it into the calendar or how is it going to be determined?

 

So how are we supposed to know who made the calendar and if I am in it I would like to buy one so how would I go about it.