When all the hard work pays off...

I returned home Thursday to see a message on my office phone.  I didn't recognize the number so I listened to the message.  I had to play the message 3 times to make sure I heard it right.  
A Picture Editor from SI, that's right Sports Illustrated, wanted to talk to me about a few images they saw on one of the websites, of a football player from Don Bosco Prep, Leonte Carroo, who committed and signed with Rutgers University.

Before I called her back, I went through the images I had on Carroo to see which ones they might be interested in.  I had 10 - 15 that were in the gallery, but had a bunch more that did not make it.  
We finally connected, and talked about the images they were looking for, the possible layout and the SI process of using images from photographers.  
She sent me screen shots of the images.  I quickly began editing the images to the sizes they needed and added all my information the the files as required.  I added a couple of different shots that I thought may work.  The images were sent off un-cropped at 300dpi, about 10MB per image.  This way they can crop the image to the layout as needed.  I don't usually send out non-water-marked, high res files to someone who just asks for them, but hey, it's Sport Illustrated!  Zoom, of they go...


The response I received back... "Perfect!"

The story closes on Monday and Claudia, the picture editor, will let me know how the images fit the article and how much to bill.  They pay a standard rate for the size of the article, so it could be a good one.  Very exciting to get noticed for all my hard work on the sidelines, especially from SI.  This has to lead to bigger and better things!  If they make it into the article, I post a copy of the page. JM


Just received word back that they didn't choose any of my images.  Oh Well!  Nice to be asked. JM