Tips to capture the best content at your event
- Take both horizontal and vertical photos
- Horizontal photos can be shared anywhere, but vertical photos and videos will allow us
to share them on all of our social platforms
- Take photos, videos, and boomerangs!
- Get creative with the content you are capturing. Mix up the typical group photo and
have people raise their glasses or cheer for a boomerang. Take a video of the event
itself (by holding your phone vertically). Don’t be afraid to send us a few selfies or
photos of the cool location your event is taking place at. The possibilities are endless!
- Use email to send larger files
- Video quality can be severely decreased when sent through a text (especially between
an iPhone and an Android)
- Avoid this by either sending a link to photos in the cloud (iCloud, Google photos, etc.), or
emailing them to your alumni relations contact.
- Avoid zooming
- Typically, smartphone camera zooming doesn’t work very well. You end up losing image
quality, and increasing pixilation and camera shake, resulting in a blurry & unusable
photo
- When in doubt, just get closer to your subject!
- Hold your camera steady and use flash when necessary
- Make sure you have a good grip on your phone (two hands!) to avoid blurry photos
- Having a hard time focusing? Tap your screen on the subject to get a clearer image
- Use flash when necessary to help get a clearer image
- Check your camera settings
- Make sure your photos are being taken at a high-quality resolution
- Most phones have this automatically selected for you – just double-check!
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