How To Win the SpinSheet Summer Sailing Cover Contest
With the July 10 deadline approaching for the SpinSheet Summer Cover Contest, sailors are posting their sailing photos in hopes of seeing their image on the cover of our August 2022 issue. Here are seven tips to help you win:
- Shoot vertically. Look at SpinSheet’s cover—it’s a portrait, not landscape shape. Although we can crop high-resolution horizontal photos to fit the cover, vertical shots with room for headers and footers work better.
- Skip the blurry shots. If you’re wondering if a shot is clear enough for our cover, it’s probably not clear enough for our cover.
- Send photos with sailboats in them. You may laugh, but we’ve already received an entry of a guy in a fishing boat, holding a fish, with a puppy on his lap. We encouraged him to enter the PropTalk Dog Days of Summer Cover Contest. At SpinSheet, we seek pictures of happy sailors on sailboats.
- Think summer. Send your frostbite racing photos some other time. For this contest. show us summertime on the Chesapeake through a sailor’s lens.
- Our graphic design team is choosy. Before we open up the contest for reader voting July 11, our graphic design team will filter out photos that are too blurry, the wrong shape, not summery, not taken on sailboats, or depicting children without lifejackets when underway. If your photo disappears before reader voting, it means it was missing that special something we like on a SpinSheet cover.
- Don’t get discouraged. Our cover contest is open to all—that means professional photographers, teenagers with 200,000 Instagram followers, and ordinary sailors. Many beautiful images will not be the winner! Did you know that we sometimes reach out to photographers to see if it’s okay to use their image on the cover in a different month? We love your photo entries, even the ones that don’t win.
- Post your pics online today! Back in the old days, it was okay to email your photo to our editor. Not anymore. To enter your photo you must click to spinsheet.com/cover-contest. Upload your entry by midnight on July 10. Good luck!
