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TAKING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
TAKING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
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Firstly let me say that there is NO criticism of anyone’s
photos, none whatsoever as I’m always grateful if, re-
peat if, there is enough of an article to go with them.
However, there are things that help putting photos in
the magazine. Remember, no decent article, no photo,
except in very rare circumstances.

1) Feet are not interesting, so
don’t include them and knees
are no good either, so get in
close for something like a
waist up photo BUT include any trophies if they are lower.
2) Please do not take photos from the side get everyone to
stand directly in FRONT of the camera.

3) Make sure everyone is looking directly at the Camera. Sorry
Rodney but the Photo below was the ideal example. Everyone
else in the Photo was great.

4) Do not have windows or another light source be-
hind the people in the photo. It can make the photo
very hard to reproduce as the camera is not capable
of seeing what your eye sees and the faces may not
be seen clearly.
5) Do NOT take a photo from a long way away. They
come out as though they were taken through the
wrong end of a telescope!
6) Do not play about with or re-size the photo. Send
me EXACTLY as it came out and let me make any
necessary adjustments, if I can BUT I can’t work mir-
acles.
7) I need to know who’s who in a photo, in order
please, WITH CHRISTIAN/FIRST NAMES AS WELL
AS SURNAMES.
8) Out of Focus photos are usually no good whatsoever.
To achieve the above GET PEOPLE TO POSE

FOR A PHOTO and don’t rush it! AND FOR GODS What did
What did
SAKE GET EVERYONE TO SMILE!!!
Bob say? I’ll
Bob say? I’ll
call him
WRITING YOUR ARTICLE call him
Do not just tell me who won; I need the scores as well AND
PREFERABLY the actual scorecards. If you don’t want to
send it/them or scan you can always take a photo of it/them.
One correspondent sends me the running scores as 0-1, 2-
1, 2-2 etc. etc. etc. with the winners scores listed first.
It’s an easy way of doing it. He also includes all the
names, as they may not be in any photos. This allows me to
add something to an article, writing blow by blow as a game
progress’s.