Photograph Submission Guidelines
April 2025
Digital images uploaded by photographers may be:
- viewed online including Photo Gallery
- included in online event recap pages
- included in Skylines articles
- featured on the web site (e.g., home page slide show)
These guidelines are provided to efficiently collect and display member photograph submissions, and reduce the need to send large, digital images via e-mail.
Online Photo Albums
Photographers may create personal albums for any event they photograph, even where an official event album exists.
- Clinic organizers review online album(s) to select and include photographs in online or print articles
- From time to time, we may select a photograph for the home page slide show (where we look for spectacular images in terms of composition, clarity, lighting, and subject that are also hi-res and suitable for panorama aspect ratio).
For images suitable for Skylines or the home page, we will make specific requests for an original, hi-res, watermark-free version of the identified images. Photographers would receive credit on the
Photography Credits page on the web site, or in the magazine.
Album Guidelines
Please follow these guidelines when creating albums and uploading images:
- Name personal albums to uniquely identify the event (e.g., “Punta Gorda 2017”)
- Categorize albums as “Event” (one of the pre-defined categories)
- Assign tags that identify the event and the aircraft type. Master tags exist for T-6, T-28, P-51, B-25, and Formation. Master tags and custom tags may be assigned in any combination to photographs. Having correct tags associated with an image allows for easy location of event photographs using a search feature.
- Identify the photographer.
- When uploading a batch of photographs, tags and photographer name may be collectively assigned. Note that these attributes may be manually edited later, if needed.
- Use no watermark, or a very small one
- Check the “allow hi-res downloads” box to permit downloads, if desired
- Avoid images larger than 8MB (website will reject them). An image resolution of 1024 x [720] x 72 dpi is appropriate for basic online album viewing, although not for print or being featured on home page; hence the possibility of selective requests for hi-res versions.