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:
1. You may email your digital photo files to yearbook @ oursaviorsonline.com.
2. You may drop off your camera’s Media Card with Mr. Wallace.
3. You may drop off a CD or DVD of your photo files with Mr. Wallace.
Here are some tips for taking Yearbook photos:
Shoot faces. Backs of heads do not work.
Take pictures of children from their 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.
On field trips, try to include the scenery in the background. This includes shots of signs with students in the picture.
Try to shoot with the sun to your back, while at the same time keeping your shadow out of the shot.
Shoot higher ISO speeds indoors. 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.
Date Stamps can ruin a great photo. Turn off your digital camera’s “Date Stamp” function in your camera’s setup
menu. Digital cameras already embed the time and date of the photo in each photo file’s “Properties” data.
And most important: 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!
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 media card, Mr. Wallace can often download the files while you wait. If he is unable to download the files immediately, you can leave the card with him, and he will return it to you personally when finished.
