…..and your publication will a dry text without the most appropriate photos…
So, on this way, what will you give for the readers ?
Your collection of AVAILABLE infos on the topic + your conclusions.
Maybe it will interesting, but it will not unic…
(Sorry, I do not want to downgrade your writer-capabilities, but I think, your choices to write something really unic…..)
But,
If you have contact with the Chinese test-pilot, development engineers, and you can publish their personal photos, scanned negatives or slides in HQ…so, it can be something completely different, your publisher will re-thinking the compensation, and the magazine will “sold-out” on the next day after publishing date…
I have two legs on the earth, I know this is mission-impossible in China….:))….(or not?)
With SovietAF:
We have a lot of books, publications, detailed answers for most of the questions…..but without unic illustrations.
You can not see how it was, you can imagine only…
If a publisher will invest more in well illustrated books about SovietAF types, in HQ, you will buy those without thinking on 3 times higher price…
(I hope my English is good enough to understand what I want to say.)
Yes, I think I understood, but the main problem is still – especially if You are not a well known author – to “deliver” a text for Yor publisher, then You have to choose the best pictures available as You too want Your article read.
But then – and that’s esp. in my situation the critical point – it’s in the end a simple calculation: for about 30 pages the publisher wants about 50-60 pictures + profiles … for each of them he gives me 20€ as a compensation for the photographer … the rest I have to pay.
In the end its all a compromise or a “go no go” situation: I decide to pay the rest even if I pay more than I earn only as I wish my text to be published or I leave it …. or as a compromise I use the best pictures available and affordable surely at the cost of the quality of my ariticle.
I think my wife will tell me something if I would pay several thousand € only for pictures, even if magazine will be sold out the next day !
And again You are right, for China the situation is surely different to Russia.
(I hope my English is good enough too to understand what I want to say.)
Cheers, Deino
PS: By the way if You are interested … here are the first three of these articles: 😉
CAC J-10: http://www.fliegerrevue.de/fr_heft.asp?PG=147&AID=%2018436
China part 1: http://www.fliegerrevue.de/fr_extra.asp?PG=157&AID=18595
China part 2: http://www.fliegerrevue.de/fr_extra.asp?PG=158&AID=19324
… or here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1641.0
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