Students need to select the best story-telling photos for their spreads. The advice here will help your students with their remaining deadlines, or if your book is complete, can be used to train your next staff. At a major school event, hundreds of photos may be taken in just an hour. After you’ve sorted out the good from the bad …
Many freshmen walk into high school on the first day without that one class, teacher or group that provides a sense of belonging. Besides creating an amazing yearbook our school can be proud of, my goal as a yearbook adviser has always been to give my students a place to belong in junior high. Another goal of mine has been …
Expensive staff cameras and lenses will produce the best photos. However, a staff member may come across a good photo opportunity and not have a staff camera with them. Help your students to understand that the camera they have in hand is the best camera, which would be their smartphone camera. Just because most students use their smartphone cameras all …
So you have a photo assignment for your publication and your teacher says get some “candid shots.” Well, you know how to take a selfie, but what is a candid shot? And is there a button on your camera for it? Candid photography means no posing of any kind. We are so used to posing for selfies, saying “cheese” or …
It was another spectacular year for the Walsworth Yearbooks Photo Contest! The 2016 Photo Contest once again drew more than 3,700 entries. Thank you to all the talented yearbook photographers for submitting their outstanding work. Congratulations to this year’s top prize winners in each of the following categories: Academics – Jacob Moscovitch, Westlake High School, Westlake Village, California Clubs/Organizations – …
Has your staff taken the group photos for the yearbook yet? Lining up group photos for all the clubs and organizations in your school is typically no small feat. It requires a plan. Fortunately, we’re here to help with such a plan! Robert Haar, the yearbook adviser at Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, California, wrote this post for …
Walsworth’s 2015 Photo Contest was our biggest contest to date and the number of amazing photos we received was absolutely outstanding. Thank you to all the amazing yearbook photographers who entered!
We received more than 3,700 submissions in this year’s contest – that’s a ton of awesome images. Without further ado, congrats to the following winners…
Halloween can be one of the most photogenic times of the year, what with people dressing in costume and putting up interesting (sometimes wild) decorations.
Take a look at this post from the website digital-photography-school.com for some tips specific to taking pictures on Halloween.
Documentary photography is the art of telling a story through photography, which should be taught among the fundamental principles of good yearbook photojournalism. Here are five ideas for understanding and applying documentary photography.
Editors and page designers need to consider many aspects of photography and design when selecting the right images for a yearbook spread. It’s about more than whether a photo is simply in focus.