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DON’T SKIP THIS

While it may be tempting to skip
instruction on how to import and
5.5 IMAGE STORAGE We say “YOSO” in yearbook: You Only Shoot Once, upload photographs, it should really
because most events are one-time opportunities. Even
be a whole-class lesson, especially
student portraits used for sidebar content or to accompany at the beginning of the year when
quotes should only be shot once. Yearbook staff is never habits are being established.
going to earn the trust of administration and faculty if they
There are three major crimes in yearbook photography. come to take the same student’s photo five times. Consider taking an entire class
period or meeting to have each
Maintaining a system for organizing work is the only way student run through the process,
1. Losing or damaging equipment. While this is extremely to prevent photos from being lost. All students on staff, including the rating and reviewing
disappointing, having students and families sign an not just photographers, need to understand the system. process explained in section 5.6,
if time allows. It will impress upon
equipment check out contract typically addresses that. Students should get into the habit of editing the images students just how important it is
as soon as possible after uploading them to the computer. to get images off cards and onto
2. Being a no-show when signed up to cover an event. It is recommended to have a minimum of one external computers and back-up drives to
hard drive to house all images that were taken for a given
Assignments were created to be filled. A no-show equals year. Depending on the yearbook lab’s limitations, external avoid lost and redundant work.

no coverage. This adds stress to the team and upsets the drives can usually be set up to allow access from other
workstations. Simply put, the first task for a student who
process of building trust. has taken photos of an event is to remove the SD/CF cards
with images and upload those images to their computer,
3. The most frustrating: losing photos. There is nothing then copy them to the external drive, ensuring that those

worse than doing the work but having nothing to show images do not get lost.
for it. Images should be filed electronically. Some schools
like a chronological structure, where all photos taken from
a particular week or month get placed together. Others like
subject-related organization. Regardless, images that are
uploaded and saved should always be re-named to include
the date, photographer name and event. This allows images
to be searchable for designers looking to build their page. It
Maintaining a system for organizing work is also aids in caption writing and crediting later on.

the only way to prevent photos from being lost.

All students need to understand the system.

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