High resolution & cameras??

Question

I don't know alot about cameras, I have to email a picture to a magazine and it has to be high resolution. Can anyone help me with this? Should I be looking for particular settings on my camera? I have already sent one picture to them, but it wasn't high resolution. Could the reason for that have been the fact that the picture was cropped?

Any help would be great! Thanks so much in advance =)

Answer 1

well when you buy a camera you have a resolution assigned to it..it can be 6 Megapixel,8 ,10 or even 12 megapixel.Higher the resolution better and sharper is the image.When you take a pic ensure your camera is set to the highest resolution possible before you take it.Most magazines require the minimum resolution to be atleast 6 Megapixel

Answer 2

I am going to assume that you are shooting on the highest resolution available on your camera. There are a few things that are going to determine what is required to get the resolution the magazine wants.

Most publications will require that the photos be taken with at least a 6mp DSLR. A point and shoot wont generally meet the requirements. The sensors on them are about 15 times smaller than a digital SLR.

Generally they want the photos shot in RAW format and converted to Tiff files. You can't do this with most point and shoot cameras. There are a few that will shoot RAW but most wont.

If the photo you are submitting is excessively cropped then there just wont be enough data available.

Sorry if this is disappointing to you. I would call the magazine up and ask them what is required to submit photos. They should be able to give you specific requirements as to what they want.

Answer 3

http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-featur...

This gives you an idea of how a digital camera gets its resolutions. I would say if this is a main stream magazine, you would need at least 5 megapixels for an 8 by 10, But that is bare minimum, a magazine would more likely need 8-10 megapixels

Edit:

If the subject is your face, then you will

1. Need to make sure your face occupies most of your picture, as in your question, cropping would change the resolution, if your picture is lets say 1000 by 800 and your face only takes up the 50% of the picture, then the pixels per square inch is much less, making detail when printing less.

2. See if your camera has a portrait or macro setting, these are designed for close ups, though a macro is probably too high.

3. Check your camera's quality setting, [I have about 3 cameras] most cameras have a simplified resolution system like my Kodak has stars, 3 stars being max. My other one just says good better best.

4. Use a tripod, less blur will make the image sharper, more likely for them to accept it,