excited
about getting a photo of the Valentine with the quartet. In the past
we've been using Polaroid cameras both because you know quickly if the
shot is good and because you can just hand it to them and not try to
sort and postal mail them all after the fact. But there has been
difficulty in keeping track of the chorus Polaroid cameras afterwards
as well as film issues.
This year the GLC is going digital with
each quartet bringing it's own digital camera instead (no cell phone
cameras). The photos are to be burned to CD (preferred) or emailed to
the webmaster to be loaded on the chorus website's photo album.
Customers can then find their photos in the album, download, and print
or email to share their fun. No having to print, sort, or snail mail
photos. Last year I was taking backup photos with my digital camera and
had one customer ask for the digital copy, she said she was the one
wearing red. You can see what a nightmare that could quickly turn into.
If
emailing, due to some email client/server limitations total email file
size maximum is limited to 10M (Meg, MbPS, or megabits per second). It
might be necessary to email the photos in batches. A quartet name and
total photo count should be included in an email so webmaster can
confirm all photos received.
A name should be assigned the
quartet and told to the customer so that they may more easily find
their photos in the online album. If the quartet doesn't give me a name
I'll name them after their lead like The Baribeau Quartet (Oh, I like
that!)
If unable to burn or email then the webmaster will try to download at rehearsal to a laptop directly from the camera.
In
my case as webmaster I'll probably have to reduce most of the photo
files to be able to upload them all. I got a nice free program that
does it quickly called Easy Thumbnails but have also heard recommended
FastStone Image Viewer.
This means more work for the
webmaster (or whoever you use to upload photos) but it's great for
providing traffic to the website and gives a little more value to the
customer by providing the versatility of digital copies.
Should be interesting, we'll let you know next issue how it turned out.
