Many thanks to those members who contribute to the magazine, it's great to hear about the community life on allotment sites. The next magazine deadline is 17 February. Please email articles to natsoc@nsalg.org.uk with the article title and ALG2 in the subject box.
Please send in your articles as word documents and keep to a maximum of 800 words, ideally around 5-600 words with images. We may split longer articles across more than one edition. Send the images as separate jpeg files attached to the email not inserted. Also, please do not insert the images in to the article or send the article as a pdf. If you have very large images then there is a free website called www.wetransfer.com that you can use to send the images to diane@nsalg.org.uk
Articles with images are more likely to be read and for print purposes we need a high resolution image. We realise that many of you use a mobile phone and they are very useful for taking images when you are out and about. So, here are some tips for taking print worthy photos with your phone.
- Get up close to your subject
- Take more than one shot
- Crop, don’t zoom – this will retain quality
- Do not use the flash
- Set your photo size as large as possible
- Use HDR– When you enable HDR (High Dynamic Range) mode in the camera settings, your phone will take three photographs at the same time to filter out the overly light and dark elements, and layer the best parts of each shot to create one photo.
- Use the rear camera of your smartphone. It takes much higher resolution shots than the front camera
- Hold your phone steady by pulling your arms into your chest or stomach as you take the shot
