Framing
For practical reasons, the covers are taken from a certain angle. The
best is to get as close as you can without cropping the cover's stand.
Lighting
Light embellishes. If you are lucky, you can even play with the sun's
reflexion by circling around the manhole. Watch out ! Shadows that tend
to sneak into pictures are quite disgraceful.
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Cleaning
If you want to become a good little coverseeker, you'll need an indispensible
tool : the cover brush. It enables you to get rid of all the undesirable elements
(fag-ends, dust, twigs and stones). I adopted a little washing up brush that has
an integrated chewing-gum scraper.
Oh, by the way, don't worry if puzzled people stop to consider your task,
you'll get used to it.
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Sending the picture
In order to send me a picture, contact me and I'll give you a mailing address.
If you'd rather send me a scan, try to make it with at least 150 dpi (about 900 by
600 pixels), preferably in 200 dpi or more.
Don't forget to tell me where the picture was taken (the country, the town and
if I dare ask... the exact location) and the approximative date and the photographer (name
or pseudonym). State if the latter doesn't want his name to be mentioned in the
thanks list.
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