Reunion: Everyone’s A [Photo-]Journalist!
Hey, after the reunion, Yale1969.org will publish pictures, reflections and memories captured at the reunion.
So, if you attend, please take pictures! If you get some good ones, please send them to us. (Attach a note with the names of any people in the pictures.) See below for tips and how to send them.
Even better, if you have a “memory or observation” that you think other people would enjoy hearing about, please write it up! Send it to us, and we’ll upload it for your final approval.
Deadline: June 15th, as we’re planning on publishing a post-reunion newsletter the following week.
Tips to get great pictures
- Good lighting. Avoid extreme backlighting, glare or bright sunlight that causes squinting. (And no sunglasses!) Best is gentle light coming directly or obliquely onto the subjects.
- Posed vs. Candid. Generally, candids don’t work too well for amateur snapshots, Go ahead and have people pose for a picture. Smiles are better than resting grump faces.
- Get Close; Large Pictures. Move in closer so that the image is bigger. Store pix in the large sizes; don’t compress. We can easily scale down. But not up.
Memories and Observations Posts
- You are likely to have some interesting reminders, reflections, or observations. Share them!
- Write up your thoughts as a “blog post,” which can take any form — an essay, a poem, an article, an op-ed, a letter, etc. It can be very short. The expectation for a post is something like 300-800 words.
- Send them in any way you want – Word document, email, anything we don’t need to re-type. 😉
How To Submit
The easiest way is to email items as attachments. Send to support@Yale1969.org
If you have a large number of pictures, and if you know how to “zip” the files into a single archive file, do that. If not, email us a description of what you have, and we’ll advise you from there. If the files are too big to email, email us; we have solutions!