Submit Your Yearbook Photos


The OSLS Yearbook Staff needs your photos.

While Mr. Wallace is able to take many photos of the students before and after school, his own teaching schedule limits him in his availability to capture images during the school day. This leaves a big hole in some areas of student life when it comes to Yearbook photos. He is asking for your help in providing additional photos for this year’s Yearbook.

The areas that he needs the most help with photographing are:


  • In the classrooms during special projects.
  • Class field trips.
  • All aspects of preschool.

 
If you have a digital camera and are planning on spending time with your student’s class in school or on a field trip, please snap a few photos and then get those photos to Mr. Wallace. He’ll make sure that they get to the right person for submitting to the Yearbook. Keep in mind that if your reason for being in class or on a field trip is to perform Parent-Aide or Chaperone duties, then please don’t lose sight of those duties, and only shoot pictures when it is safe or unintrusive.
 
You may submit digital photos to the Yearbook Staff in three different ways:


  • Email:   When Emailing photos, please attach your photo files as individual attachments. Limit your combined attachment size to 9MB per Email. Do not embed photos within the body of Email text. Do not reduce the resolution of photo images [for Emailing or any other reason], even if this requires sending only one image file per Email. Send Emails with image file attachments to yearbook@oursaviorsonline.com.
  • CD/DVD:   If you burn your photo files to CD or DVD, you may drop these off at the office, or with Mr. Wallace. Please indicate whether or not you would like the disk returned to you.
  • Media Card:   If you decide to bring in your camera’s memory card, Mr. Wallace can often download the files while you wait. If he is unable to download the files immediately, you can leave your memory card [or your camera] with Mr. Wallace, and he will return it to you personally when he is finished downloading your images.

 

Please submit your digital photos as un-edited copies of your original image files in the format that they were recorded in by your camera. We can accept your digital photos in any of the following formats:

 

  • RAW - This is the preferred file type, providing us with the most latitude in photo editing; however, not all cameras have this option. If your camera does record in RAW, please consider using this format.
  • JPG (JPEG) - Most common photo image file type. Can be set to different levels of compression. Little or NO compression is preferred for the best quality photos.
  • TIF (TIFF) - Preferred over JPG for its non-compression, but less common than RAW. File size may be difficult to Email.
  • BMP - Acceptable, but barely.


It is also very important to shoot and submit photos in their highest native resolution. Always shoot your photos at the highest image resolution that your camera has available. If your camera is a 10 megapixel camera, then shoot your images at 10 megapixels. When Emailing or transfering your image files, do not reduce the image file's size.

 

Here are some tips for taking Yearbook photos:

 

  • Shoot faces. Backs of heads are unusable.
  • Take pictures of children from their eye level, even if it means getting your knees dirty.
  • Shoot a variety of candid shots, posed shots, wide group shots and closeups... and don’t forget teachers.
  • Include any interactive subject matter that students may be working on or watching.
  • On field trips, try to include the scenery in the background. This includes shots of location signs or landmarks with students in the picture.
  • When outdoors, try to shoot with the sun to your back, while at the same time keeping your shadow out of the shot.
  • If your subject is in the shade, avoid putting bright sunlit objects in the background. Instead, move around to find a background that is as dark as or darker than your subject.
  • Shoot higher ISO speeds (400) indoors, and even outdoors when your subjects are moving quickly. Grainy and in-focus is better than non-grainy and blurry. Of course, non-grainy and in-focus is best, but that’s not always possible.
  • Always use your flash indoors, and try to use it outdoors as much as possible when shooting faces to help reduce harsh facial shadows.
  • If you have an external flash, use it. Built-in flashes are only good for about 3-5 feet.
  • Date Stamps can ruin a great photo. Turn off your digital camera’s “Date Stamp” function via your camera’s "Setup" menu. Digital cameras already embed the time and date of each photo [plus all setup data] in the image file's Metadata file. Having it pasted on top of your precious photo as well is unnecessary, and ugly.
  • And most importantly: Any photo is better than no photo. If following the above guidelines means missing the shot, then to Hell with the guidelines... Get the shot!

 

We thank you for your contribution to our Yearbook.

 

 

NOTE: Mr. Wallace invites anyone needing help with camera setup, purchases, repairs or other issues to stop by before or after class with your questions.

 

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