new folder on my computer and then added a folder titled
“Assets.” In this folder I placed all of the photographs to be
submitted with the article.
In order to get a large file submitted to MRH electronically,
it has to be compressed into a zip file. I followed the link on
the MRH website to Zipcreator (
and made a
zip file of the folder with all of the material for the article.
Once the zip file was created, I submitted it by clicking on
the "Submit an Article" drop-down on under the Authors
heading on the MRH banner.
It’s important to check your file size, as each submission is
limited to 64 MB. If your submission is larger than this, break
it into two separate files and label them with “Article XYZ-
Submission 1” and “Article XYZ- Submission 2” so that the
folks at MRH know there are two parts. So with the article
finally finished and submitted, I patiently await a response.
Good news arrives! MRH is going to use the article. But not
so fast – the bad news (but actually really good news) is that
Joe and Charlie want to use it for a cover article. So it's back
to the basement to take more photos.
About this time I learned about Helicon Focus, a computer
program that allows you to combine multiple photos at dif-
ferent focal ranges in order to get incredible depth of field.
I found a free focus stack application by the name of
CombineZM (
and start taking more photos.
“So with the article finally finished and
submitted, I patiently await a response. Good
news arrives! MRH is going to use the article.”
