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Choose only the best pictures.
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Sometimes you have to include at least one of your best friend’s
pictures–I know that.
Otherwise, choose only the ones that will help your report.
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Include the photographer’s name in the caption if it
isn’t you.
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Send the pictures full size.
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All pictures, including mine, are edited before they appear in a Trip Report.
Picture editing turns out best when I have a full size picture to start with.
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If your pictures are on line, set it up so that just anybody can see them
and download them without having to create an account and log in.
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Our maximum picture width in Trip Reports is 600 pixels.
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Short and very wide pictures look great framed on the wall, but they don’t
make it in Trip Reports. Tall and very thin pictures are also problematic.
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The best captions are brief one-liners.
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A long, soupy caption should become a paragraph in your report, to go beside
the picture. I’ll make up captions if need be.
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Leave out any picture that you wouldn’t want the whole world to
see.
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Admittedly I censor some photos that have me in them, so I
won’t look too awful.
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Our club has photographers at all levels.
But we are a hiking club, not a photography club.
Although I make a big deal about carrying a camera on hikes, no one
has to. Still, I want to make the Trip Reports look as good as possible,
working with what we have.
People really do read our Trip Reports.
→ See also:
Taking Pictures on Hikes.
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