CBC Website Photographers. 
Thank you so much for supplying digital photographs for the Countryside Baptist Church website. There are a few thing that would help me to get your photos on the website. 
 If you can do any of these it would be most helpful.  If not, just send them along right away and I'll get them in shape for publishing.
  • Take a lot, send only the best. One wag said the only difference between a professional photographer and an amateur is what they will show.  An amateur will shoot twenty images and show them all. A pro will shoot a hundred pictures and show only two.  You don't have be that picky, but chose wisely.
  • Get them to me in a hurry.  Submitting a hundred unedited photos that are weeks old isn't helpful. In some ways our website is a news magazine and old news is no news; editing is nice but timeliness is critical!
     
  • Crop out the junk.  Most pictures could be improved if the photographer was closer or zoomed in.  Large expanses of empty ceiling or floor make a poor image.  Before you resize them, crop them. It's better if you used a fixed crop ratio when you do this so all you shots are the same same, not one square 4 x 4 and the next one a panoramic 2 x 10.
 

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  • Resize them: 72 to 100 pixels/inch, about 1800 pixels in the long dimension.  Anything smaller will look grainy in full screen.  Anything bigger may take too long to view.  Sending mixed portrait and landscape oriented photos is discouraged. 

    By default, most digital cameras are set to the highest quality (biggest file size).  These are great for printing but  too big for easy internet downloading.  If you have a lower quality setting, (but not too low), use it for the pictures you're putting on the net, and resizing will be done for you.
  • Use your photo editing software. If you know how to use your editing software to improve lighting, contrast, and color, or add text, by all means do so.  Adding text to explain a photo can be very helpful, but NEVER identify children, or anyone else, by their full name. 
  • Add Captions - If you know how, it would be great to add captions to the metadata in your photo editing software, for example "Mary and John take the plunge" for a photo from a pool party collection.  I can set the slideshows to display these captions, but I can't write the captions for you.
 

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Thank you again for helping to make our website one of the best by supplying your digital photographs.  I know everyone's skill level is different, so don't be afraid to send what you have.  We want our website pictures to be good, but we don't need a masterpiece every time.  Send what you shot and I can probably use it.  - Jack Winter, Webmaster