Welcome
to the Press Page and Media Kit
for The Dubuque Stained Glass Project
Materials You Can Use to Tell Our Story or Otherwise Promote the Calendar and Print
his
is our Press Page. It contains several items which can be use to you
if your are in media or a sales point for the print and calendar. You
no doubt have seen the other three sections that comprise this site,
including our Production Diary,
A Day at the Print Shop,
the Key to Images
used in the print, and our Project
Description pages. The emphasis on this Press Page is to
make graphic files available for you to reproduce. For
example, if you click on the poster below left, a larger jpg file will
download into your browser. It can be transferred to PhotoShop or Microsoft
Word where you can size it appropriately for your application, save
it to CMYK and eps or tif formats compatible with your page layout program.
If you need additional help or instruction in this, don't hesitate to
e-mail us.
Following is a list of files, a description of the image and suggestions on how they can be used.
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Click on the file above or at right, and you can download a copy suitable for printing on your inkjet or laser printer.
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See lower right for Acrobat File Download Instructions.
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Print
Details:
At left is
the final print. Its published dimensions are 21 x 30.25 inches.
It's printed on heavy, archival quality paper. The photography
is totally digital. No film was used at any time. Images were
captured in available light using the Sony DSC F505 The background image was totally rendered from scratch by Gary Olsen based on the most popular skyline images in Dubuque's cityscape. You can readily identify St. Raphael's Cathedral, St. Patrick's and St. Mary's Catholic Churches, and St. John's Episcopal Church. The Ryan House cupolas can also be identified. Rooftops and chimneys are reminiscent of Dubuque's Golden Age of Victorian architecture featuring mansard roofs of the French Second Empire style, and steep roofs of the American Gothic style. Windows were selected for the print based on how best they captured the design and production technique favored. For example, architectural and window design styles tended to fall into five design categories: Gothic style, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern or Post Modern. Windows were crafted in America, Germany, France and England. How Windows Were Selected: How windows were included in this project was not a juried competition by any means. We sent out letters to all Dubuque churches asking for permission to photograph windows. Not all responded, and those who did were immediately on the top of our list. We followed up with churches who did not respond, and managed to include a few more in this project. Fortunately, the churches and residences we absolutely wanted to include in the work (St. Luke's, St. Raphael's, Nativity, St. Mary's, St. Johns, and First Congregational) all responded immediately and enthusiastically to our invitation. There were many more windows we would have liked to feature, but there just wasn't enough time nor space for a truly comprehensive study of windows. We are confident, however, that we have included some of the best. The Morrison Bros. Co. Ad (left) |
digital
camera. The camera uses a Carl Zeiss all glass lens and 2.1 megapixel
resolution. The images were downloaded to a computer workstation
where they were resized, keystoning and distortion removed and
colors optimized. Primary software used for image manipulation
is Adobe PhotoShop 5.5 and 6.0. The file is multilayered with
each window on its own layer to manage levels of transparency,
and composition (placement in the space).