#8109902 - 02/27/15 08:37 AM
my experience as a magazine editor
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Duc
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this is not an easy job
while having it's ups, there's a lot of downs. I experienced this with the fourth issue of my magazine (one issue every two months).
an organized layout that flows is paramount. you have to know how to lay out the meat and potatoes along with organizing a flow each and every issue. what may have worked in the last issue doesn't always work in the next issue.
writers, unless they are dedicated, can become frustrating. here's some photos, here's a write up, now publish my article without ever looking back or working with you in a way that shows that they care about their work. ugh. sometimes the photos are edited crappy or they don't mesh well with other edited photos in that issue. too much HDR, photoshop newbies with over exposed pictures, too dramatic in the final the list goes on. article write up is damn near a novel that you as an editor have to cut down to maybe fit on one or two pages.
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#8112770 - 03/01/15 08:57 PM
Re: my experience as a magazine editor
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Nate047
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If anyone told you it would be easy, find them and slap them.
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#8112852 - 03/02/15 12:02 AM
Re: my experience as a magazine editor
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Nate047
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Yea I am too man, it's not easy starting a new publication. Major props on that. Keep after it and ignore my dumb jokes :P
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#8113220 - 03/02/15 11:38 AM
Re: my experience as a magazine editor
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Duc
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How are you compensating your contributors?
for the readers of the magazine, I created a contest where 5 readers received a hardcover photobook of some of my best pictures, along with a t-shirt and die-cut sticker for their vehicles.
as far as people who have been in the magazine, the photos have been mine since I do my own photography and they have been given the option to purchase prints of my photographs. the budgets for the shoots, travel, photo editing time are from my own budget. I got picked up by two companies to come out to Utah at the end of this month and shoot for them during easter jeep safari and they mentioned that they would like to pay for content.
two of the people that have been featured in the newest issue stated that they would like to pay for advertisements to help bring in revenue for me to sllow the magazine to be viewed on mobile devices ($40/mobile viewing - ipad/iphone/android/Samsung)
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