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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, СІЧЕНЬ 2011 21 of teaching English and working as a freelance editor) is “So what? That’s why God made editors.” Besides, if your idea is a good one or you are an expert on something that you think will be of interest to oth er readers, your article or story will probably turn out better than you think. We can’t guarantee publication, but you’ll never know unless you give it a shot. Teaching writing also taught me that many people are unwilling to write because they don’t know what to write about. So if the tips above leave you clueless, consider the following “wish list” of items we’d like to see or see more of : • women’s issues – contemporary news U.S. • women’s issues – contemporary Ukraine • women’s issues – contemporary interna tional • stories about fascinating women who have inspired you or shaped your life (you score extra points if the woman is/was a UNWLA member) • theater/cinema (e.g., movie reviews) • home & garden tips • senior issues • travel (describe stuff to see without tryin g to write about a whole country on one page) • seasonal/holiday materials (but please don’t send me Christmas articles in May) • life in the diaspora stories (but not the same story everyone else can write) • “how to” articles (serious or funny) The most import ant thing to remember when tackling any of these topics is to remember your audience and to slant what you write in a way that appeals to that audience. Also remember to attach a phone number to your manuscript. It makes things easier all around if I can c all with questions or suggestions or simply to acknowledge that your article has been received. – TSC Photography 101 Tips for Submitting Photos to Our Life for Publication One of the challenges we face when working on Our Life page layout each mon th is what to do with photographs that are of poor quality, either from the standpoint of composition or the standpoint of resolution. In either case, there is very little we can do to improve such photos — the simple explanation being that good photos will look good while bad photos will look bad no matter what we try to do to improve them. So what constitutes a “good ” photo? Here again, a simple explanation is best. A good photo is simply a photo that is crisp and clean, looks good, and illustrates what sh ould be illustrated. It’s fairly easy to spot — it’s the one that you’d like to display in a picture frame instead of stuffing at the bottom of a box with a lot of other photos that might be personally interesting but not worth displaying to others. Poor qu ality photos are a lot easier to define. They tend to have shadows which mask the faces of half the people in the picture, they are blurry, or they show things you really don’t want them to show. Often, they are photos in which the object or person of inte rest is overshadowed by a lot of dead space or a lot of people or things that don’t need to be in the photo at all. All of these issues are avoidable if you apply some simple ground rules or techniques. As a rule, h ard copy photos reproduce better than dig ital photos. The caveat here is that a hard copy photo will look good if it is a good photo to begin with. Unfocused photos or photos to show too much or too little will not look any better in print. Digital photos (JPGs) are somewhat more com pli - cated. M arie Duplak of Computorpint, who creates a professional composite from the rough layout we send for publication each month, requests that electronic photos from digital cameras have a resolution of 300 DPI. We can sometimes get by with slightly lower resol ution, but very low resolu - tion photos don’ t print well — they look blurry and grainy and, if the resolution is really low, all you get is a big gray blob. We run a reminder about this 300 DPI business every other month or so, but we continue getting digital photos with very low DPI,
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